Skip Tracing

Skip tracing is the craft of finding a current, servable, or callable location for a person who left the last address. Debtors, witnesses, defendants, beneficiaries, and former partners do not always leave a forwarding card. Investigations Plus combines database work, fieldwork, and human sources to produce an address, workplace, or pattern you can actually use — then we stop inventing certainty we do not have.

When this service is the right file

• Mail is coming back, phones are dead, and the lawsuit cannot move.
• A witness disappeared between the collision and the discovery deadline.
• An old roommate, executor, or debtor still owes money and has gone quiet.
• You have a name and a city from ten years ago and nothing else.
• Service attempts keep hitting a relative who does not know.

How the investigation is done

We take every scrap: middle names, old plates, employers, tattoos, associates, and email fragments. Trace work moves through lawful databases, utilities-adjacent sources, social graphs, and then doors. A new address is tested — mailbox names, vehicles, neighbours — before we call it current. If the person is transient, we look for a pattern (gym, job site, partner’s house) rather than one magic door. Results are graded: confirmed, probable, historical, or exhausted.

What you receive

• Trace memorandum with sources
• Confirmed or probable addresses
• Workplace or frequent-location notes
• Associate list that actually helped
• Recommendation to serve, watch, or close

Legal and ethical limits

Pretext that impersonates government, banks, or police is off the table. Privacy law still applies to how we ask neighbours. We do not dox people online as a skip-trace method. If the person is in hiding from violence, we take extra care about who receives the location.

Who typically retains this work

Lawyers, lenders, landlords, families, and other investigators who need an Ontario locate. Fugitive work with a warrant flavour sits on a sister page because the risk profile is different.

Where we handle these files

Ontario locates are daily work. National traces are normal. People move; the service stays one page, not a page per city.

Related services

These investigations are often used together. Open any service to see how we handle it.

• Process Serving
• Fugitive Locates
• Missing Persons

Send the last-known identifiers and what you need the locate for (serve, contact, or interview). We will quote a desktop pass versus a field confirm.

Typical fact patterns

Mail is coming back, phones are dead, and the lawsuit cannot move. A witness disappeared between the collision and the discovery deadline. An old roommate, executor, or debtor still owes money and has gone quiet. You have a name and a city from ten years ago and nothing else. Service attempts keep hitting a relative who does not know.

Deliverables in practice

Trace memorandum with sources Confirmed or probable addresses Workplace or frequent-location notes Associate list that actually helped Recommendation to serve, watch, or close We take every scrap: middle names, old plates, employers, tattoos, associates, and email fragments. Trace work moves through lawful databases, utilities-adjacent sources, social graphs, and then doors. A new address is tested — mailbox names, vehicles, neighbours — before we call it current. If the person is transient, we look for a pattern (gym, job site, partner’s house) rather than one magic door. Results are graded: confirmed, probable, historical, or exhausted.

Lawyers, lenders, landlords, families, and other investigators who need an Ontario locate. Fugitive work with a warrant flavour sits on a sister page because the risk profile is different. Ontario locates are daily work. National traces are normal. People move; the service stays one page, not a page per city.

Send the last-known identifiers and what you need the locate for (serve, contact, or interview). We will quote a desktop pass versus a field confirm. Pretext that impersonates government, banks, or police is off the table. Privacy law still applies to how we ask neighbours. We do not dox people online as a skip-trace method. If the person is in hiding from violence, we take extra care about who receives the location.

Skip tracing is the craft of finding a current, servable, or callable location for a person who left the last address. Debtors, witnesses, defendants, beneficiaries, and former partners do not always leave a forwarding card. Investigations Plus combines database work, fieldwork, and human sources to produce an address, workplace, or pattern you can actually use — then we stop inventing certainty we do not have. Send the last-known identifiers and what you need the locate for (serve, contact, or interview). We will quote a desktop pass versus a field confirm.