Margie Bodas spoke on August 29, 2000 at a full day seminar on Skip Tracing in Minnesota, presented by the National Business Institute. Co-presenters were Scott Gray, Metro Legal Services, and Attorney Jon Hawks.
Agenda:
- Skip Tracing Basics
- What is skip tracing?
- Using skip tracing to help collect money for you or your clients
- Statutes applicable to skip tracing that you must know
- Skip tracing: individuals vs. corporations
- Challenges with jurisdiction
- Where to begin
- Skip Tracing Tools
- How to select the best resources for the task at hand
- Databases
- Public records
- Government records
- Corporation traces
- Working with a professional collection agency
- Making the decision to hire a professional agency
- Where and how to find a reputable skip tracer
- Key information you can provide to expedite the search
- Using the internet for locating debtors and collateral
- Best search engines and other search tools
- Top web sites
- Narrowing your search
- Ethical Considerations
- Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
- Confidentiality in skip tracing
- Ethical scenarios in the search process
- What to do once you find the missing person
- Strategies for successful collection of the debt
- Successful recovery of collateral
- Litigation procedures