Last week an attorney called me about a defendant they couldn’t serve after six attempts. Three old addresses. Two disconnected numbers. Every lead looked good on paper but went nowhere. They had already spent hours trying to track him down themselves. We ran a skip trace and a license plate reader report, tied him to a relative’s address, confirmed the residence, and we served him the next morning. Here’s what I’ve learned after years in this field: skip tracing isn’t the be