What is skip tracing?
Skip tracing finds the current phone numbers and contact details behind a property address. You start with owners you want to reach and end with numbers you can dial. See the glossary on skip tracing for the short version.
How does skip tracing work?
A skip-tracing service matches an owner and address against public records and private data to return likely phone numbers and contacts. Match quality varies by provider and by how fresh the data is, so the same list run through two services can return different numbers.
Why does data accuracy matter so much?
Your contact rate depends on data quality, not just caller skill. Wrong or dead numbers waste dials and drag down every metric below them. Cleaner data lifts the whole funnel, which you can see in the cost of cold calling calculator by raising the contact rate.
How do investors use skip tracing for cold calling?
Skip tracing feeds the dialer: a targeted owner list becomes a callable list of motivated-seller candidates. We include skip tracing at $0.03 per record, scrubbed against the Do Not Call Registry, so callers dial real, reachable owners. See the lists that convert.