Skip Tracing Services Across Massachusetts
Skip tracing locates a person who’s moved, changed numbers, or otherwise become hard to reach — most often for debt recovery, repossession, legal notice delivery, or reconnecting with someone for a legitimate personal or legal reason. The name comes from the person having ‘skipped’ town, but most cases are simpler: an address that’s gone stale.
Permissible use matters here. When skip tracing supports debt collection, the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s permissible-purpose framework and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act both apply to how the located information can be used and who can be contacted — we only take skip-tracing work for lawful purposes (legal process, legitimate debt recovery, reconnecting family, litigation support) and we’ll ask what the case is for before we start.
- ✓Current address and phone number research through public records and licensed databases
- ✓Employment and asset leads relevant to a collection or legal case
- ✓Verification that a located address is genuinely current, not stale data
- ✓Compliant handling when the case supports debt collection or legal process
- ✓A written report with everything we found and how confident we are in it
What We Need From You to Start
The more we start with, the faster and cheaper the trace — a full name, date of birth, last known address, and the reason for the search all narrow things down fast. We’ll also ask what the information will be used for, since that determines which legal rules apply to the search and to what happens after someone’s located.
Trying to Locate Someone?
Tell us who you’re looking for and why. We’ll tell you honestly how findable they are.
Common Questions
Can skip tracing be used for any purpose? No — purposes tied to debt collection or consumer reporting carry specific legal rules under the FCRA and FDCPA. We’ll ask about your purpose up front to make sure the work stays compliant.
How accurate is the information you find? We verify before reporting a location as current — a name match in a database isn’t the same as a confirmed current address, and we won’t represent one as the other.
Skip tracing is conducted under the same Massachusetts private investigator licensing requirements that cover all of Hub’s investigative services, which means the lead we hand back is built on sources you can rely on for service of process, debt collection, or legal notice, not just a guess.
A located address is only useful if it’s current. We corroborate every lead against at least one independent source before reporting it, so you’re not chasing a stale address that wastes a process server’s time or a collection effort.
What a Hub Skip Tracing Report Looks Like
Below is a shortened, fictional sample report in the same format our investigators deliver.
HUB SECURITY AND INVESTIGATIVE GROUP
Skip Tracing Report — Sample (Fictional)
Case #: SAMPLE-7783 Date: 03/05/2026 Investigator: R. Doyle
Summary of Findings: Database research identified a current address linked to a recent utility connection record. The address was independently corroborated through a vehicle registration record showing the same address, filed within the past four months.
Recommendation: Address confirmed as reliable for service of process; client advised to proceed accordingly.
This is a fictional sample created to illustrate our reporting format — the dates and case details shown are not real.
We don’t hand back a lead until it’s corroborated — a single-source hit isn’t a confirmed address.