Pittsburgh, PA | How Do You Pierce the Corporate Shroud??

[David Coleman]

All, 

I've identified plenty of distressed properties "Driving for Dollars", but am hitting dead ends when trying to "skip trace" corporate owners. Has anyone identified an easy way to identify individual owners of an LLC? In many cases, it appears (in the Allegheny County Real Estate Assessment website at least) that the taxes haven't been paid for at least 4 years.

Any tips, tricks would be greatly appreciated,
Dave 

[Jim K.]

Originally posted by @David Coleman:

All, 

I've identified plenty of distressed properties "Driving for Dollars", but am hitting dead ends when trying to "skip trace" corporate owners. Has anyone identified an easy way to identify individual owners of an LLC? In many cases, it appears (in the Allegheny County Real Estate Assessment website at least) that the taxes haven't been paid for at least 4 years.

Any tips, tricks would be greatly appreciated,
Dave 

All right, Dave, as I said in my friend request, looking forward to meeting up with you after this pandemic crap is over.

And when we meet, I expect a Primanti-Bros-or-equivalent sammich outta this...any of you Pittsburgh BP lurkers see this and use it, I expect the same. Coffee ain't gonna cut it.

So the first thing you have to do is search for the LLC here: Pennsylvania Business Entity Records Search

An LLC that does business in PA has to be listed here. By and large, as a real estate business, the LLC will be registered at a residential address. With luck you'll find a name attached as an officer. If you have that name, do an internet search on the individual. If you don't, but the address is in Allegheny County, do a search on the residential address and see if you can find an individual listed as the owner of that home.