TLO or Accurint For Skip Tracing Owners

[Jonathan C.]

I've used both Accurint and TLO, but I can't remember now if TLO was 'better enough' than Accuring to justify the extra cost. I'm interested in using to find owner phone and (if possible) email addresses for owners.

Someone also mentioned 'delvepoint' for doing this, which I'd never even heard of until now.

Any thoughts/advice from the hard core skip tracers out there welcome. Thanks

[Mark Wolffer]

This is how data providers get their data:

1. They can be the "source": However, for property data, there are only two real "sources". Everyone else buys from them and then wholesales or resells.

2. Phones are a commodity and people are adding phones and stopping services etc. all the time. Aggregators will usually have one large list of land lines...then update that list from whats called a daily connect/disconnect file. Example: every day I receive every landline that is either turned on or turned off from all the telcos in the US. The other type of phone number comes from mobile phones. Thats harder and much less likely to get a match. Its derived from multiple sources, one of which is a co-registration monthly feed that shows people's information when they register at many of the websites we visit. Example: if you go to a payday loan site that sells your reg data...I probably have your name, address, phone, and email.

3. Getting home ownership information:   again, real property data (see #1) This is where you end up getting charged for the data. Anyone who does volume buying monthly can get this stuff for pennies, not dollars.

4. Various data sources update their files in certain intervals....the bad ones may have data that is over a year or two old.

5. Emails are derived from the co-reg files described above and then updates a master file. Remember that people may have multiple emails and these lists also may contain emails that have not been used for over 10 years.