| Name | Description |
|---|
| Accurint
| Accurint - major competitor to ChoicePoint. Founder of ChoicePoint
sold business and after non-compete expired started Accurint. Fr small searches
is very reasonable. |
| Anywho.com
| AT&T Yellow Pages for businesses nationwide. |
|
Bigyellow.com | Bell Atlantic Yellow Pages for businesses nationwide.
|
| Bigbook.com
| GTE Yellow Pages for businesses nationwide. |
|
Blue Book Online | To obtain credit and marketing data in wholesale
fresh fruit and vegetable industry. |
| California
Secretary of State | Info regarding filing procedures, fees, forms,
etc. for corporations, limited partnerships, notaries. Free search.* |
|
California State Association of Counties | Lists every county and
county web site. Use for fictitious business and grantor-grantee indexes.
Good free search tool.* |
| California
State Contractors Licensing Board | Research the standing of any
California licensed contractor. |
|
CDB Infotek | Excellent for fee credit and collection search and
discovery tool. The best database on the market.* |
|
Creditworthy.com | To obtain one of the most complete list of credit
reporting agencies on the internet. |
| Dun &
Bradstreet | Business information reports. Payment, analysis. Good
tool but relatively expensive. |
| Equifax
| Credit reports |
| Experían
| Inexpensive credit reports and checks. Good for small accounts.
|
|
Fictitious Business Filings (DBA's) | For fee service that provides
reports on filings for Fictitious Business Names, Assumed Names and Doing
Business As registrants. You can usually get this information for free by
calling the county or city business license office district. |
| Hoovers.com
| Company profiles - subscription based. |
| Informed
Credit Manager | Public record and business background information.
Similar to CDB Infotek. |
| KnowX
| Source of public records on the Web. Locate people, research
businesses, run a background check. |
|
Los Angeles County Recorder | Los Angeles county Public information,
including Recorder Fictitious Business Names, real estate information, etc.
|
|
Merlin Information Services | Search business, property and other
public records. |
|
National Asset Recovery Services, Inc | Nationwide collection agency.
Offering services in finding lost assets, nationwide collections, skip tracing
services, etc. |
| National
Telewire Corp. | Telephone number tracing. |
| Nevada
Secretary of State | Search and information are also free.* |
| Pacific
Southwest Credit | A San Diego based agency. Offers services in
local Credit checks, deadbeat lists in certain industries, but requires a
membership fee. |
| People search | People search - reverse lookup.
|
| Parasec
| Nationwide document filing and retrieval. Necessary when you
need to see corporate, LLC or partnership documents or have to conduct a thorough
UCC1 search.* |
| Risk Management
Association | Obtain comparative financial data from 150,000 statements
of commercial bank borrowers and prospects. |
|
Rominger Legal | To obtain legal research and news on the internet.
Competitor of Law Dog. |
| San Diego County Recorder | San Diego county Public
information, including Recorder Fictitious Business Names, real estate information,
etc. Free of charge.* |
|
Searchsystems.net | Over 16475 Free Searchable Public Record Databases.*
|
| Secretaries
of State | The sites for Secretary of State in all states. Use for
entity and fictitious business searches (in some states). Good free search
tool on the Internet.* |
|
Securities and Exchange Commission | Free financial information
on publicly held corporations. |
| Semaphore Corp | A searchable directory of addresses
and zip codes nationwide. |
| State
Bar of California | Use to check on specific attorneys. |
|
Switchboard.com | Free skip tracing - personal or business. |
|
U.S. District, Bankruptcy and Appellant court records | To obtain
information on U.S. District, Bankruptcy and Appellant court records. |
|
U.S. Postal Service | To obtain zip code for any US address. |
|
VersusLaw | For-pay legal research site. |
|
West's Legal Directory | To obtain information on attorneys nationwide,
e.g. law speciality. |
| 555-1212
| Free skip tracing worldwide. Search by phone, FAX, address, or
e-mail. |
