Hope you all are doing well. From State of Indiana... Do you know how I can find tenant? Because she left without paying house rental. I do have her driver's license that is good till 2029 and I also do have her social security number as well. Please let me know how I can find her home and or employment addresses so that my lawyer can contact her. Many thanks for your help. --208.104.xxx.xx

Detectives can do it. My friend was running a charity and had that kind of service to get information on new hires that were working with elderly in nursing homes. I dont know the name of that service she used and I'm not in touch with her but she found a guy who had hacked my credit card. I had his name from the company he bought things from. Maybe someone here knows a name. --71.188.xx.xxx

You need another lawyer, a good one knows how to trace the skip. Hopefully you have a court judgement to substantiate the validity of your claim. The drivers license is useless unless you have a ticket book with a dispatcher to issue a ticket. --76.190.xxx.xxx

Allym, (NJ) Thank you for your reply. I am glad your friend helped you find that guy. Crazy world we are in. I hope you will remember the name of that service she used. or ask your friend maybe will know? Thank you so much --208.104.xxx.xx

Thank you for your reply... That is what other friend said that Lawyer should be able to track and find her.. The Lawyer just emailed me today and said that he does not do the tracking thing and told me that the private investigator can do that. I knew the private investigator is expensive. I have already tried Searchpeople.com but looks like old address.. I am trying to figure out different ways or find options to locate her. If you know something please do let me know. Thank you so much --208.104.xxx.xx

Is the apt or house all cleaned out of her stuff or is everything there and she is just gone missing? --74.77.xx.xx

Thank you for your reply. She left her furnitures at my house and I had to clean them out of my house. She just left and did not pay my house rental. My lawyer said I needed to find her current employments or home address and when I do then my lawyer can start the case.. Do you know who can find her current info? Thank you so much. --208.104.xxx.xx

So you have this and you have that-- which means nothing if you didn't vet this person . My gosh folks!!!!!! --98.97.xxx.xxx

Please CHILL.... You do not need to talk like that... We met and she signed the Lease agreement and then she moved in... She did pay for few months and then she just left.. She breached the contract!!!!! This is why I came to this website to find out if anyone know of someone who does the service to locate tenant's current info.. Thats all.. I am guessing you don't know. Thanks --208.104.xxx.xx

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Thanks for reply. Thanks for info. I will try that. So far I have few info on where she is at.. I think she has moved to Waukegan IL. So my. next step to figure out exactly where. Thank you so much for the tips. Thank you so much. --208.104.xxx.xx

Your money might be better spent having a lawyer draw up a better lease, updating all your pre-screening and application methods, and signing up with a background check service, such as is offered on this site, as well as an automatic rent collection service (also offered here through Clearnow) so that this never happens again. --50.82.xxx.xxx

Thank you for your reply. Well, she is real person. So she will be found eventually. My other lawyer did draw up lease agreement for me. So I have her DL and SSN... all I need is to find out who does the service to locate her with her DL and SSN .... that's all I need.. thank you for the tips.. thanks --208.104.xxx.xx

Call their contacts from their application and say they left some valuable items and you want to return them, do they know where they are? --73.141.xxx.xxx

You said the tenant did not pay rent, left furniture behind, etc. Did she return the keys to you or in any other way indicate she had abandoned the property? Had utilities disconnected? Did you follow your State's law regarding abandonment? These things should have been taken into consideration before trying to track down the tenant. Many very experienced landlords here have given you advice. Often it's best just to move on and learn from what happened. Screen better the next time and have a good lease. --71.28.xx.xx

If you were able to find the old tenant you would bring them to the jurisdiction where this took place, much like a traveler has to appear in court where the incident took place. Above this window you see some blocks, look there for information on rent collection, credit checks,debt reporting and more. --76.190.xxx.xxx

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How much does she owe after deducting her security deposit? --71.28.xx.xx

A lot ... there were damaged in my house. --208.104.xxx.xx

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Thank you for your reply. Yeah I got 3 ref and employer and last home rental agent with their contact info before she moved in. They all said she is great person and great renter... Yeah I agree that atty should be able to find her but my lawyer does not do that and told me to ask other service who can locate her employment and or home address before I can contact my lawyer again. I see that you live in IN as well as me. How do I find atty who does and able to locate tenant's employment and or home addresses ? Again thank you for stop by here. I hope you can let me know how I can find atty who can locate her for me. Thank you. --208.104.xxx.xx

Thank you for your reply. It is interesting how the system works... collecting only... that is not good... It should be more of action than putting in file .. that's it... Yeah I can see that she may move to a new job and then I have to start the process again. She has 2 adult children (collage ages) I have a feeling that she will stay close to her children... Maybe I should considering turn over to a collection agency and let them handle it so that way make sure that information is on the tenant's record because I do NOT want to see another Landlord suffer the loss of Landlord's money fix up the house etc.. I want to help other Landlords..and prevent her from doing it again in the future. Thank you for stop by here. I am guessing from the top box menu that offers to contact the collectors. I will check it out soon. --208.104.xxx.xx

If you have good references contact them with the balance and see where that goes - some of us experienced managers can do our own collections, again it takes time adult beverages and blood pressure to complete the cycle. You should get inline for the next convention and bring 2 notebooks cause I think you will need them. --76.190.xxx.xxx

Thank you for stopping by here. What do you mean.... "managers can do our own collections".... do you mean managers as in "property manager? ? Again, thank you for stopping by here. Please let me know what do you mean by managers. Thank you. --208.104.xxx.xx

I have two ways to look in addition to a skip check. First, the ladies in the water department and I give each other forwarding addresses. Tenants want their water deposit back or they give me the address and skip out on the water company. Second, these people tend to have legal woes so I check them out on Mycase, Indiana's online court records. That leads to the address they give the courts. The last time I had a disappeared tenant, she was in prison and yhat's how I found her. --216.23.xxx.xx

Thank you for your reply. Wow. I am glad you found her. I hate that when tenants were or are not honest. I will make sure that any Tenant skip out should be put on their credit report so that ALL Landlords will check and see reports before move in their house. I want to make sure that Tenant will not do that again to other landlords in the future. So how did you go about with the Indiana court records online ? I would like to try it to see if her name appear. Can you please write back with the link. I will appreciate it very much. Thank you for stopping by here. Hope to hear back soon. Thank you. --208.104.xxx.xx

Anna, in all the back n forth here I do not see where you mention that you went to court and received a money judgement against the former tenant. If not then you might be out of luck going to small claims court w/out an address to 'serve' her notice. No one mentioned the service offered on this website that will collect a judgement for you in exchange for x%. Perhaps you should give the judgement if you have one to such an agency as Doogie mentions, and "rent on" as many here advise. If this is your personal home I suggest you do a thorough background and credit heck on future applicants (another service offered here). --67.240.xx.xx

interviewing by phone. I Get exact spelling and run them before giving out address. Get all names for women and run different spellings. Past evictions, especially if they lie about them, or previous conviction for violent crime means no address. --216.23.xxx.xx

Thanks for your reply. You did not see anything about court that is because I spoke with my lawyer. So my lawyer said that I have strong case. My lawyer said dont go to small claims and he said going for superior court only if we find tenant's address. I do not know if this website do have service offered on here but I have recently received (from menu box above) a contact person info who can locate tenant's address so I will contact them soon. Which box menu are you talking about a thorough background and check on future applicants (another service offered here). Is it that yellow box that says "credit checks" ? Thank you for stopping by here. --208.104.xxx.xx

Yes and I even spoke with her employer where she used to work there and the employer said yes she is employee there at the time before she moved in my house. Your other comment above you mentioned that you went online. I check it out and found her brother was listed but not the tenant that I am looking for. Thank you so much for that website. I wish that website would included addresses. Again thank you for stopping by here. --208.104.xxx.xx

Hey, I just realized after I saw her brother's name and I tried to click on his name and I was surprised to see his home address. Should I contact him to ask him for his sister's contact info ? I just dont want to spook her and she might disappear again. It is just my imagination LOL .. Please advise. Thank you so much. --208.104.xxx.xx

I forgot to add in my previous msg. I would prefer to find out where she works at rather than home address. So that there is a file info at the employment will help a lot. Thanks. --208.104.xxx.xx

Yes you can click on address data. I once called a sister saying I was in her sister's high school class and wanted to contact her regarding next reunion and it worked. You could also say old landlord and say you need to send her some stuff she left behind. Just don't tell him it's rat feces. --216.23.xxx.xx

LOL you made me laugh. So funny.. Ok will try that.. I am curious if you might know the name of the site online for North Carolina and South Carolina similar to mycase online Indiana ? I just want to prepare because I have a house ready for new tenant to move in soon.. YOU ARE THE BEST... THANK YOU.. I am still laughing... --208.104.xxx.xx

Why did the attorney advise against small claims court? small claims is cheap and you can do it yourself if the house is in your personel name. How much will you be suing for? --74.77.xx.xx

Again I will say your atty is not very good in these matters, they likely want a murder case where there is no reason to hurry - just charge hourly rates for months and years accidentally stumbling into evidence. Even a squirrel will find a nut once in awhile, hopefully you can shake this nut and find a better one. --76.190.xxx.xxx

Get the place rented out again. That is top priority. Then find a better attorney. I use collections agencies as well. They charge a hefty percentage but at this time it seems you want the deadbeat to pay more than you care about collecting it all. That's fair and actually how I do it myself now. --107.147.xx.xxx

I would not mind to get the maximum $10k from the small claim but my lawyer says no go for superior court.. Even if I do it myself I am not sure how to do it because this is my first time. Lawyer said estimate about $20K and will use garnishment method. That is all I know for now. Thank you for stopping by here. --208.104.xxx.xx

Yeah I agree I think I should shake this nut and find a better one. Thank you for stopping by here. --208.104.xxx.xx

Yeah I would not mind go for small claim but my lawyer said no going for superior court. Noblesville... I see that you are in Indiana as well.. What part are you in? Thank you for stopping by. here. --208.104.xxx.xx

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