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Assets search
Asset searching has become a booming business in the
private investigative field. And no wonder. Businessmen need verification of
potential business partners' financial-worth claims; investors need to gauge the
financial status of the people and companies they're thinking of dealing with;
creditors need an accurate fix on the creditworthiness and financial stability
of potential debtors. Even fiancés (or fiancées), not infrequently, are
interested in looking into the net worth of potential husbands or wives.
Some types of assets are relatively easy to find in public
records (especially tangible assets like real estate, vehicles, boats,
aircraft), while other types are hard to find (especially financial assets, like
personal bank and brokerage accounts).
Sometimes you can find out a lot about someone's financial
assets through civil or criminal litigation records. For example, if he's been
through a divorce, his complete financial history should be spelled out in the
divorce files; or if he's been sent away for tax evasion, his finances will have
been relevant and will be found in the court records.
- Collectible assets, such as art, antiques, stamps,
coins, and jewlery are especially hard to find. Not infrequently, well-to-do
husbands facing an impending divorce and debtors facing impending lawsuits
hide assets in collectibles. Investigators search for these assets by looking
for insurance policy addendums and riders. They're often found listed on
homeowner's policies.
- The number one method used by information brokers to
locate bank accounts and to access other financial information on a subject is
the subject's credit report (again, a permissable purpose is required for
pulling someone's credit report). Using the credit report, the information
broker has access, via the "Skip Trace Departments" and credit departments of
lenders and merchants, to virtually every credit application the subject has
ever filled out. These credit applications usually provide complete
banking/financial information, including, often, even summaries of assets and
insurance policies.
- Off-shore Assets. Off-shore holdings are tough to
uncover using public records, though indications may crop up in civil/criminal
litigation. In legal proceedings lawyers often subpoena travel agency records,
passports, telephone records, and hotel receipts in an effort to uncover
evidence of overseas contacts or travel. Sometimes this can be discovered
through airmail delivery receipts issued by package delivery services.
- In an effort to hide real estate assets, subjects
sometimes purchase real estate in the names of relatives (the wife's maiden
name is the favorite), as well as friends and associates. Investigators can
sometimes uncover these assets by searching for real estate whose taxes are
billed to the subject's home or mailing address. However, the subject may
still have assets owned under aliases or not directly linked to him in any
obvious way. If you suspect the subject is hiding assets, always search real
estate records under the names of his known relatives, associates, and close
friends.
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