Wednesday, February 3, 2010

10 Things that guarantee success

10 THINGS THAT WILL GUARANTEE SUCCESS IN PROCESS SERVICE

• 1. Always, always answer the phone. No voicemail, no answering machines, a real person!
• 2. Always acknowledge your receipt of paperwork.
• 3. Make your first attempt within 24 hours of receiving it!
• 4. Let your client know status reports immediately.
• 5. Fax a copy of completed return to your client same day.
• 6. Immediately mail your returns back to your client.
• 7. Look at the big picture. What is this client worth in dollars per year?
• 8. Be professional, get rid of the beat-box music on your cell phone.
• 9. Let your client know they can count on you and your honestly.
• 10. Remember it is your own business, so take care of your clients.
• 11. Never say “NO”. Always say “We can get it done!”

Remember we wrote the book on Skip Tracing, If you need help let me know. Billy Wells
210-226-7192

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

If You Need Someone Found

You can offer a skip trace service to your clients. If you need someone found, send me an email. I will charge you $35 and you can charge $50 to your client! It is win win. Let me know if you need any help on Skip Tracing or Service of Process in any hard to reach areas. Billy Wells prontoprocess@gmail.com

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Saturday, January 16, 2010

New to blogging

Thomas has sent you a link to a blog:

Hello, just wanted to say hi. I am new to this blogging thing. Any word of advise and how to start sending info to other people or people to find me.

Blog: Process Servers
Post: Process Servers
Link: http://tricountycivilprocess.blogspot.com/2010/01/process-servers.html

Friday, January 15, 2010

IRS and mileage

IRS disallows commute miles to and from your work...so go figure...ha! Since all of our work is driving...I count it all. BW


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:27 PM, wrote:

Hello! Billy and a Happy New Years to you and yours. Just a question for you about how to calculate mileage when serving papers. I serve process for several local attorneys. I keep record of my starting mileage to the addresses on the citation and keep a runnning total from one location to the other, but Iam unsure if I need to count the mileage coming back to my home after the last stop?? Thanks for your help and advise. Lupe R. Cruz #SCH3758

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Subpoena to get Info

Raymond :

I am an attorney who got his start as a process server. I am actually still authorized to serve in the State of Texas and do serve papers for other attorneys - on rare occasions - when I need extra cash. There may be privacy issues with electric and utility companies, but there is a little known provision in the rules of civil procedure which states that the discovery period in a case - including third party discovery - begins the moment that a case is filed. This means that the attorney who hired you can use his subpoena power to get information about where the subject can be served. I routinely do this in my practice, and I do pay my process servers extra to serve the subpoena (although the servers I have a working relationship generally "comp" me those serves)

I try to give my servers as much info as possible. On the address, check the appraisal district to see if the last name of the owner of record for the property matches the address. An process server may also send requests to the US Postal Service under 39 C.F.R. 265.6(d)(5)(ii) to obtain forwarding address information if one address comes back bad. If I only have a telephone number, I use www.whitepages.com to get a free "reverse look-up" search.

A process server does not have subpoena power; but the hiring attorney does. Documents pertaining to the address of a subject can be subpoenaed from a number of different sources.

As for public record searches, ask your hiring attorney to run an "AccurInt" on subjects and provide it to you. If you see a car in front of a house, pull a VIN and/or a tag and run that through PublicData.com. PublicData will also give you Driver's License information if you have a good name and date of birth.

I hope this helps.

Jason L. Van Dyke
Attorney & Counselor at Law

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Vicki Hutchens

I use IRB, which is a part of Accurint, I have found that it is the most reliable, but I also use Public Data. The only database that I have found that provides the full social is Tracers, but there information is not as update as IRB. Good Luck


Vicki Hutchens

Certified Investigative Consultants

Telephone 432.522.7800

Fax 432.522.7802