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You don't really need a private investigator for that information. You're really looking for a skip tracer. There are at least two commercial data bases that I know of that provide most of the information you're asking about - Accurint, which is a specialized database open only to insurance companies and others who can demonstrate a legitimate use for it. Lexus/Nexus has a similar database that is available on a subscription basis. I think Westlaw has a similar subscription-based service. All of them require some training and some proof of who you are and why you are subscribing to get access and know how to use it. It used to cost something like fifty bucks to get a general background report on someone. And then you could get sophisticated.

You can get all the public data you are asking about but it is not legal to access someone's credit report. It is not difficult to gain illegal access to a person's credit report and credit history because the system isn't very secure, but it is very illegal and the penalties are high.

Essentially a basic Accurint search will get you all public data like criminal histories, work records, names, addresses, property recorda, aliases, AKAs, etc. It won't be perfect because not all public data is dumped into any central repository that can get picked up by te commercial databases. It's easy to confirm federal criminal records, but state and local records are spotty. To do a background search right you have to go to every county in every state the person ever lived in and do a physical search of their records.

But the commercial databases are very good. They get data from property records, phone records, even magazine subscriptions. They cross reference the data to get reliable data. You get a lot of false positives, but as you get experienced with it you know how to filter out the false positives and just track your subject.

Any large process service company will have a skip trace/asset search division. Just look them up in your local Google search area and call them up. If you can't find one on your own, let me know and I'll let you know who does it in your area. I used to use a guy out of California who was a licensed PI but really was an Internet-based skip tracer. He charged almost nothing and could usually find the subject as he was taking your call. He loved to do that and have you the answer before you even thought you had given him all the information. There's a whole industry filled with people like him. And then there are the professionals. . .