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Posted about 15 years ago

Reverse Phone Lookup - "Collection Investigation"

This piece is about being a landlord and having to do a little detective work using reverse phone lookup to find anybody. I invested in a piece of software that may be useful to all of you so, if you need to find someone by reverse phone lookup, check out my articles. Below is an example where it might come in real handy for you.If you are like me and most other real estate owners I know, you may, at some point, be faced with the burden of having to track down a previous renter for any number of reasons.

I am surprised again and again by these people. I guess I shouldn't categorize renters as "these people" but they do seem to be a different breed than other, more stable, tenants in leases or by owner financing scenarios, am I right? In fact, the way they think seems to be completely different as if, from the onset of the rental agreement seems to be "temporary", especially in a "month-to-month" scenario.

There are occasions when I do take pity on a poor soul and I give in to the rental scenario. I was recently confronted with just such a scenario and I, yes, I caved; gave in and rented versus my preferred methods of long term lease, lease to purchase or owner financing.

Well, a month goes by and low and behold, they "have a story". When I say have a story you know exactly what I mean don't you? After waiting 10 days for the rent, I prepare a letter mail it or sometimes, if I am in the neighborhood, I'll take it by to speak with the renter. I knock on the door and askWell, just when I thought I'd seen it all, they moved out on me in the middle of the night, leaving me with a home in a mess and hurting for a months loss of income on the property.

Fast forward a month later and "Mr. Renter" calls me from a number that showed up on my caller ID, although the caller name shows up as "Unknown Caller". He cried about his life this that and the other, there's always a story. The point being, he owed me money and now I had his number. But, how would that help you ask? Well, I found a FREE service online where you can locate anyone by telephone number. It doesn't matter if it's a cell phone or a landline.

You can find can find anyone by address reverse lookup, cell phone number free lookup, cell phone number reverse free, cellular reverse lookup, free reverse cell directory or free reverse cell phone look up using "free reverse look up" that I have posted on my blogger. Free reverse lookup using a phone number is not a new thing but in the past, the market & data has been dominated by Intellius and they charge like $50 a year. That's would be fine if it included credit reports and the whole 9 yards but it doesn't. All you get is reverse telephone lookup for landline phone numbers. Intellius doesn't have, as far as I've seen, reverse phone number look up for free.

So, to aid in your detective work, if you have a valid phone number; check out my piece on reverse phone lookup. Hopefully, this will provide some help for you.

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