Skip Tracing Evicted Tenants to Garnish Wages and Collect Debt

[Cody F.]

We've had several evictions over the years and have gotten judgements against the tenants. You can collect on money that is owed by garnishing wages if need be, but you first need to find out where that person works.  This is where skip tracing comes into play. 

I have found several websites that could be useful, but I'm wondering if anyone on here has a tested method or service that they trust and use.  I know there are websites and companies that you can use for debt collecting but I have a feeling they are a waste of time. They charge money to send bills and notices in the mail, and it costs to keep sending those notices that usually just get thrown in the trash.  

We have more than 10k in debt at this point that we incurred from evictions, so it would be nice to just run some names through a database every other month or so to hopefully find the employer to collect on some of that loss we incurred. 

I've found a few candidates for skip tracing and finding employers:

-Microbilt.com 

-Accurint.com

The sites above seem to be the most professional and legitimate way to go about it. 

Other sites that might be useful but seem like they won't give you full detailed info include

-TLO.com  (Transunion)

-Spokeo.com 

-Beenverified.com

-Infotracer.com

-Truepeoplesearch.com

I used infotracer and it wasn't very helpful, but still got some decent information that may be useful, Truepeoplesearch.com was pretty useful and was free, it linked to beenverified if you wanted more detailed information that you would have to pay for. 

I'm interested to hear if anyone else is working on this same problem and has had any luck solving it, I would love to hear if you found a website or service that really worked for you.  I feel like around these parts here in Alabama there are a lot of old landlords that aren't tech savvy, so when they have bad tenants they don't get reported to any credit bureau or database, these bad tenants then get to keep on going from rental to rental destroying property and not paying rent because they aren't getting any consequences.