It takes more than a handshake and good intentions to establish trust and working relationships – it requires reliable information about the person you’re dealing with. US Search can help fill in important personal – and easy to miss – details, whether it’s a simple address history to track down lost friends to a property or criminal history before initiating a business transaction.

Situation 1: Business
There are a variety of business situations where it is important to verify a person’s identity and credibility in advance:
• Before hiring a house contractor check if he has a history of bankruptcies, claims against his work, or tax liens – all indications that his business integrity is not worth your investment. Since a contractor will spend a lot of time around your home and family, do a criminal or sex offender .
• When you buy a big-ticket item online, like a car or jewelry, make sure that the seller is who they claim to be (address history) and legitimately owns those items (asset search). A good idea may also be to run a criminal background check to look for red flags like fraud or theft convictions.

Situation 2: Online Dating
Online dating has become mainstream, but it is still difficult to determine someone’s honesty through pixels and email. Any kind of people search can help identify potential problems; the more in-depth searches such as US Search’s DateMate can offer even more peace of mind:
•Address history. An address history is a starting point that sketches in a person’s background by checking if they live were they say they do.
•Criminal background. The first rule in dating is safety, and a simple criminal background check (including a sex offender search) is one form of protection.
•Marriage and divorce records. Most search companies don’t do a nation-wide search by default, so specify which states to check. If an address history reveals that someone has lived in Tampa, Chicago, and Portland, check marriage/divorce records for Florida, Illinois, and Oregon.
•Asset checks. Most problems in relationships come from money. An asset check looks for property and businesses owned by a person, major assets like boats, bankruptcies, and civil judgments.

Situation 3: Reconnecting
Most people have considered tracking down a childhood friend, sweetheart, or military buddy, so it’s natural that the most common type of people search is an address history. A first step may be a fast white pages search using a name and address, but most people move several times over their life time, and frequently change their names, as a woman taking her husband's name or a person going by their nickname.

US Search, unlike telephone white pages, doesn’t need current information to find somebody because we cover multiple databases that include old records. The more information you can supply, the easier the location search is, but you only need to know three things for US Search to initiate a search:
• Name (first and last, even a maiden name or alias)
• Any city the person has lived in (not necessarily their current address)
• Approximate age (an option to help narrow results)

For instance, a person may know that Martha Smith lived in Bakersfield in 1994. Using a combination marriage records and old phone directories, the US Search can identify her as Martha Jones living in San Mateo in June 2007.

Us Search offer personal support as part of search packages, so if there are too many results (or no results) from your search, you can ask them directly to help you. Need help? Our Expert specialists will select the best databases to get you results.