Manual Skip Tracing for High-Value Leads
When a bulk match isn't enough, our manual search goes deeper — full address history, relatives, associates, and verified contact paths on a single owner. Built for the deals worth closing.
What is Manual Skip Tracing?
Manual skip tracing is a one-owner-at-a-time deep dive. Unlike bulk processing, which optimizes for speed and coverage across thousands of records, manual search pulls the full picture on a single subject: current and historical addresses, verified phone numbers, relatives and associates, and cross-referenced contact paths. It's the tool you reach for when a lead is high-value and a shallow match isn't good enough — and it's especially critical for curative title work, where you often need to track down a signer on a decades-old deed, an heir who never took possession, or a fractional owner who has since moved several times.
Common use cases
- Curative title deals — locating missing signers, heirs, and fractional owners on dirty deeds
- Investors chasing a probate or heir-property deal where the owner is deceased
- Wholesalers who got a hot lead from bulk and need every possible contact path
- Deals worth thousands where paying a few dollars for deeper data is trivial
- Following relative and associate chains when the primary owner is unreachable
- Tracking down a decades-old grantor whose current whereabouts aren't in any recent record
What's included
Deep-dive owner profile
Everything we can find on one subject — current and prior addresses, phones, emails, aliases.
Relatives & associates
Full network of relatives and known associates, with contact data for each. Essential for deceased owners.
Verified phone paths
Phone numbers are scored and prioritized so you know which to dial first.
Full address history
Every known mailing and property address the subject has been tied to, so you can send mail that actually lands.
Skip trace on the lead that matters
Reserve manual for high-value leads. Combine with bulk for a proven two-pass workflow.
Search history retained
Every manual search is saved to your account. Re-open it anytime, or link the result into your CRM.
How it works
Enter what you know
Name, address, or partial info on the subject. The more you provide, the tighter the match.
Review the deep profile
See phones, emails, mailing addresses, relatives, associates, and address history in one view.
Call, mail, or export
Work the contact paths directly, or push the record to your CRM or dialer.
Why SmartSkip for manual skip tracing
Actually manual — not an API repackage
Many competitors call their single search 'manual' but just re-query the same flat file behind their bulk product. Our manual search hits deeper investigative sources you can't get in bulk.
$0.15 on Premium
Manual searches are $1 each on the free Basic plan, or the same $0.15 as bulk on the $50/mo Premium plan. Heavy manual users save immediately.
No PI license required
TLO's deep-search equivalent requires credentialing. SmartSkip's manual search is available to anyone with an account.
Included in the second-pass workflow
When bulk skip tracing doesn't produce a usable contact on a property you really want, manual search is the second pass. Reserve it for your hottest properties and highest-value prospects — the deals where it's worth going deeper to open a contact path that bulk couldn't find.
Purpose-built for curative title research
Curative title deals often hinge on finding one specific person — a missing signer, an heir, a fractional owner — using nothing but a name from a decades-old deed. Manual search stitches together address history, relatives, and associates to rebuild a live contact path where public records go cold.