Skip Trace - FAQ

1.  What is Skip Tracing?

Skip Tracing provides you with phone #’s and email addresses for potential leads

2. What details do I receive when I request a Skip Trace? & Where do I locate my skip trace list?

This will be delivered right in your account.  You can find your list by clicking on the BELL icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen. 

If you selected the results to create Contacts in your account, you will also find the phone #’s in the Contact file. 

+ + Please Note: When you create the contacts, only 1 phone # will deposit into the Contact record. You will have access to the other phone #'s and email addresses in the Spreadsheet that you will find in the BELL Icon.

3. What is the estimated success rate for finding data as well as the general percentage for getting the actual home owners current number?

Although we cannot make any guarantees on how successful each Skip Traced list will be below are the numbers that we have seen over the last several years. These numbers are based on 1000 Skip Traced #’s per month. 

27% connection rate - this is actually speaking to the correct person

3% Interested To Sell (ITS) rate. 

(30 ITS Leads per month) - this is someone that has expressed any interest in selling.

4. How many results can I expect?

On average, you can expect to locate at least one phone number for close to 90% of your Skip Traced list

5.  What is the cost of Skip Tracing?

 .10/Contact. You will pay for the total number of contacts on your list. Any unsuccessful skip traced leads will be credited to your account for use on your next Skip Trace order

6. What to do if the numbers provided are no longer in service?

This will happen from time to time as phone numbers do change.  The best thing to do is to move onto the next.

7. Is there a max number of leads I can Skip Traced at once?

No, there is not a maximum.

8. Is there a minimum number of leads that can be Skip Traced?

No, there is not a minimum

9. How many numbers & email address will I receive per lead?

You will receive UP TO 7 phone #'s and UP TO 2 email addresses for each lead.

10. How do you find the phone numbers and email addresses?

A variety of public data is used to aggregate and append phone numbers and email address results