If you have a missing tenant, you have the right to track them to recover any unpaid rent and damages. Tracing absconded tenants can be daunting and time-consuming, which is why many landlords choose to hire a professional tracing company to help locate their tenants.
This article outlines the steps to locate debtors and how to recover the debt. We will discuss what debtor tracing is, how it’s conducted, and the advantages of using a professional tracing agent to help locate your absconded tenants.
What is Tenant Tracing?
Tenant tracing is the process of locating a debtor who has disappeared without paying their debt or fulfilling their contractual obligation with their landlord. When a tenant absconds without paying their rent or for extensive damages, a landlord may hire a tracing service to help track down their missing tenants.
How is a tenant trace conducted?
You can attempt to find your tenant by contacting the tenant’s family and friends. If you are unable to get in touch with anyone that might know the whereabouts of your tenant you can use online databases. Finding their address yourself can become expensive, the data available to the public can also be outdated making the debt recovery process longer.
A professional tracing company will use all data available, full name, last known address, phone numbers and email addresses. With advanced technology and access to professional databases, tracing agents can conduct in-depth searches to confirm the current residence of your debtor.
What are the benefits of using a tracing agent?
Professional tracing companies have access to multiple databases that allow them to obtain substantial amounts of information about missing tenants. They can cross-check all relevant public records, such as phone directories, credit bureaus, Electoral Roll databases as well as County Court Judgments and Bankruptcy information. This information is not publicly available.
Another advantage is that our tracing experts are skilled in locating individuals who are hard to find. We have experience in finding missing tenant and know how to us various tracing techniques to locate people despite their attempts to evade being located.
We understand that locating absconded tenants is a complicated and timely process, and we know you want to locate the debtor and recover debt quickly and efficiently. You can have peace of mind with a professional tracing service knowing this is being handled for you.
Using a professional tracing company saves you the time and effort of finding your tenants. UK Tracing conduct monthly searches on your absconded tenants until their forwarding address is confirmed. Contact us today on 01622 528 544 to see how we can help.
