Finding Current Contact Information

You can find contact information for property owners in many places. You can do a web search, use social media, look up business and property records at a secretary of state website. These kinds of manual searches take time and may not always provide current or accurate information.

• Web searches don’t always provide current or accurate information.
• Investors who use public data in their business use skip tracing software.
• Skip tracing software makes it faster and more affordable to get accurate contact information.

Use Skip Tracing Software

Skip trace software allows real estate investors to search large databases of public information that a small business would not have access to any other way. These databases are updated constantly to be sure the information is accurate.

Businesses search on the information they have, such as a name, address, or phone number to do a deeper skip tracing search for the complete contact information of the property owner or real estate contact they are trying to reach.

Skip tracing software makes it faster and more affordable to get accurate contact information, including mobile phone numbers, addresses, and emails, for a list of customers or contacts.

Data Quality Matters

The reason any business uses skip tracing is so they can locate and contact a customer. If the contact information they get from their search is out of date or just plain wrong, that business is going to waste a lot of time and money calling the wrong people or mailing to the wrong addresses.

• You can waste a lot of time and money using data that is wrong or out of date.
• Skip tracing software will provide higher quality data for your business.
• There are several good skip trace platforms. Test the data for yourself.

Getting Accurate Results

In skip tracing for real estate investment, or any other business, data quality matters. So, you want to choose skip tracing software that has a reputation for high quality data and accurate search results.

For instance, the BellesLink people search platform is known for its great data. Our premium data is made up of thousands of sources and billions of records, and BellesLink searches can give you current contact information for 98% of the adults in the U.S.. You can start with a free account to test the data for yourself.

Workflow and Efficiency Matters

When you’re skip tracing for real estate investment, data quality isn’t the only thing that matters. After you do a few searches you will quickly realize that skip tracing creates a lot of contact data. It’s easy to get lost in a spreadsheet full of phone numbers and addresses. So, creating a workflow and having some tools to manage your contacts, calls, and texts is what you need to be efficient, because efficient means profitable.

• Skip Tracing creates a lot of data to manage. It can easily get out of hand.
• Creating a workflow, with tools to manage your contact records, is essential.
• Skip tracing software, like BellesLink, has a contact manager built into the platform.

Contact Relationship Management Is Essential

For real estate investors there are a number of contact relationship management, CRM, platforms made specifically for the industry, such as LionDesk, PropStream, and InvestorFuse.

Some real estate skip tracing platforms, like BellesLink, have a built-in CRM, so you don’t need a separate software service. These CRMS are built around an efficient workflow that turns your data searches into contact records that you can work with more easily than a spreadsheet. This can be the best way to get started.

Batch Skip Tracing for Real Estate

When you want to skip trace a list of people batch skip tracing is the tool to use because you can can search thousands of records at once and returned detailed search results with current phone numbers, addresses, and emails. Batch search is an efficient and affordable way to add phone numbers, addresses, and emails to your list of contacts.

Reasons to use batch search:

• Append current phone numbers, addresses, and emails to your existing list.
• Save time by skip tracing thousands of records at one time, instead of individual searches.
• Avoid confusing spreadsheets. Use our contact manager to organize your list and search results.

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People Searches for Real Estate

When you need to do a complete skip trace to find contact information for an individual, an LLC, or business, you’ll want to use people searches. Peoples searches provide more types information than a batch search and give you more opportunities to locate and contact your customer.

People search can include these types of information:

• Mobile and landline phone numbers
• Addresses with related phone numbers
• Email addresses
• Associates
• Relatives
• Neighbors
• Property records
• Business records

There are different types of people searches you can use, depending a what type of information you have to search with. BellesLink skip tracing software includes these types of people searches.

• Person search—start with a name and address
• Reverse phone number search—start with a phone number
• Reverse address search—start with an address
• Property search—start with an address or property number
• Business search—start with a business name and address
• Called ID Lookup—start with a phone number
• Debt search—start with a name and address

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Manage Your Skip Tracing Data With Contacts

Skip tracing is an efficient way to find current phone numbers, addresses, and emails and more. Most often, your skip trace results come back to you in a spreadsheet format. Spreadsheets can be confusing and difficult to use so it’s good to have another option, like the BellesLink Contact Manager. Instead of working with a spreadsheet, you can work with contacts, just like you do in your accounting or sales management software. Contacts make it easy to put your skip tracing data to work.

• Data from your skip trace searches can be saved into a contact record.
• Contacts can be put into groups, organized with tags, and expanded with custom fields.
• Make phone calls, send texts, and save notes from the contacts you create.

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Do More Than Just Skip Trace, Make Contact

In all the talk about data and searches, it’s easy to forget why businesses use skip tracing in the first place, the reason is to make contact with the person by phone, text, email, or mail. No matter what your reason for searching someone, the goal is always to talk with them. To help you make contact with the people you skip trace, BellesLink includes a business phone system and business texting that is integrated with our skip tracing searches and Contact Manager. It helps you build an efficient workflow for your business and helps you get more from your skip tracing work.

• The most important part of skip tracing is making contact with the people you search.
• A skip trace platform with built in phone and text makes contacting people easy and efficient.
• Your business can make many more contacts with customers when you’ve got current data.

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Get Started With BellesLink

It’s easy to add BellesLink to your real estate business. You can sign up for our free Basic Plan and get access to our Batch Search, People Search, and Contact Manager. That’s everything you need to find current contact information for the people you’re skip tracing.

To access our complete people search platform, including our business phone system and business text messaging, signup for a Pro Plan or Business Plan. The Pro Plan is a great value with all the people search tools you need to not only find people, but also contact the people on your list. The Business Plan gives you more of everything, when you’re ready to grow your business.