Find Someone Fast — Colorado Skip Trace & Locate
Need to locate a person or asset in Colorado? Our investigators combine public-records databases, employment and vehicle data, and licensed proprietary tools to deliver a verified current address — fast, lawful, and ready for service or recovery.
Why clients trust RMEE
- Founded 2022 — built specifically for Colorado civil, family-law, and judgment-recovery work
- 427 cases completed to date — surveillance, process service, locates, court-ready reports
- BBB Verified business and a 5-star Google rating across team locations
- Active local law enforcement and former detective experience on the team
- Military veterans on the team — discipline, integrity, and discretion
- Encrypted client portal — every case file, photo, report, and affidavit stays in your hands, never shared outside the team
How we work
- You request a callback. One short form, no commitment. We reach out within one business hour on weekdays, otherwise the next morning.
- Free 15-minute consultation. We listen first, ask the right questions, and tell you straight whether we’re the right fit and what it’ll realistically cost. No pressure, no upsells, no contracts on a first call.
- Clear written scope and quote. Before any investigative work begins, you get a plain-English plan with what we’ll do, what it costs, and what the deliverable looks like.
- Real-time updates and a secure deliverable. Text and email updates after each meaningful step. Reports, photos, video, and signed documents are available through your encrypted client portal — never sent over public email, never shared with third parties.
Discretion, secure systems, and what’s different about working with us
Investigative work is sensitive. Most of our clients are dealing with something they don’t want their neighbors, employer, ex, or opposing counsel to know about. We treat that as the baseline, not an upgrade.
- No paper trail through public email. Sensitive case material — photos, surveillance video, locate reports, signed affidavits, retainer agreements — moves through your encrypted client portal, not Gmail or Yahoo. Court-ready evidence stays out of the wrong inboxes from day one.
- Single point of contact. You’re not bouncing between five people. The investigator working your case is the person who calls you back, briefs you on findings, and signs the report. If they’re in the field, our office team gives you status — they don’t take over your case.
- Real-time updates by text and email. No “I haven’t heard from them in a week” phone calls. After every meaningful step — first attempt at service, surveillance shift completed, locate hit confirmed — you get a notification. You always know where things stand.
- Built for Colorado civil court, not for billable hours. Reports are formatted to be admissible: time-stamped, source-cited, signed by a licensed Colorado investigator, and ready for your attorney to attach as an exhibit. We don’t pad hours to look busy.
- Quoted before we start, not after. You see the price before any work begins. No surprise invoices.
- Discretion as a baseline, not an upsell. Surveillance is conducted in unmarked vehicles by investigators in plain clothes. Locate work draws from public records and authorized databases — we don’t pretext, we don’t impersonate, we don’t tip off the subject. Process service is non-confrontational by default.
What we typically locate
- Current address — where someone actually lives now, not the last bill
- Current employer — verified through authorized channels, useful for wage garnishment and judgment recovery
- Vehicle and asset registrations — public-record vehicle, watercraft, and aircraft registrations; UCC filings; civil judgments and liens that point to assets
- Phone, email, and alias history — current contact paths and known prior identities
- Civil and criminal court records — open cases, judgments, restraining orders, criminal history visible in public court records
- Confirmation when needed — a quick drive-by or photo verification of an address before you spend money on a serve, demand letter, or surveillance retainer
Common situations we work
- Judgment recovery — finding a debtor’s current employer, bank, or assets so your judgment turns into actual collection
- Pre-litigation due diligence — vetting where someone really is, what they own, and what existing exposure they have, before you draft the complaint
- Process-service prep — locating a defendant who’s gone dark before we attempt service (often included as an add-on to a serve)
- Beneficiary and heir location — finding someone for an estate, trust distribution, or class-action notice
- Missing persons — when someone has dropped off contact for non-criminal reasons (estranged family, former clients, lapsed contacts)
- Witness location — finding someone who needs to be served a subpoena or deposed
How we work — and why this isn’t an online database lookup
We are a licensed Colorado private investigations firm — not a database reseller. Every report is built and reviewed by a human investigator who pulls from multiple authoritative sources, cross-references against authorized databases and court records, notes source reliability and any conflicting data, and recommends the next step rather than dumping a wall of raw data on you.
If three sources say one address and one source says another, you’ll see that in the report — not just whichever one the algorithm liked best.
Compliance — what we will and won’t do
We work from public records, court records, and authorized investigative databases under Colorado law. We do not:
- Pretext (impersonate someone else to extract information)
- Use illegal data sources or trick subjects into disclosing information
- Pull credit reports outside FCRA-permissible purposes (skip-trace for judgment recovery has narrow but legitimate FCRA pathways — we’ll discuss eligibility before quoting)
- Tip off the subject
If your use case has FCRA, GLBA, DPPA, or HIPAA implications, we’ll flag that on the consultation and route the request only through compliant channels.
Turnaround and pricing
Most locate reports are ready within 3–5 business days. Urgent cases tied to imminent litigation or process service can be expedited — call to discuss.
Skip-trace and locate work is quoted per case depending on depth. Single-address-confirmation jobs are inexpensive; full asset-mapping for judgment recovery is more involved. Reach out for a free 15-minute consultation and we’ll scope it.
Frequently asked questions
What’s the difference between a skip-trace and a background check?
Background checks tell you who someone is — criminal history, employment, education. Skip-trace tells you where someone is right now — current address, current employer, vehicles, assets. Different intent, different data sources, often used together. See our background checks page for the related service.
How accurate is your current-address data?
Higher than what you get from a $20 online lookup, because every report is verified by a human investigator against multiple sources rather than served from one stale data feed. We tell you which sources agree and which conflict.
Can you find someone who’s actively trying to stay hidden?
Often, yes — but we’ll be honest about the realistic odds before quoting. Sophisticated subjects (people with prior PI experience, offshore situations, witness-protection adjacent) are harder; most people aren’t sophisticated about it.
Can the subject find out you looked?
No. We don’t pretext, don’t contact the subject, and don’t use sources that notify the data subject. No consumer credit pulls, no soft-credit hits unless you explicitly authorize and we have a permissible purpose.
Will the report stand up in court?
Yes, for source-cited facts. Skip-trace reports are typically used as investigative work product to inform attorney action, not as standalone exhibits. If you need court-ready locate confirmation (often paired with surveillance), we’ll structure it that way and label it accordingly.
Related resources
- Background Checks — full service overview (related but distinct service)
- Fraud Investigations (often paired with skip-trace)
- Criminal Defense Investigations
- Process Service — once you locate the subject
- Private Investigator FAQ
- Client Portal — how locate reports get to you securely
- About Brandon Richardson, lead investigator
Ready to talk?
Use the form at the top of this page to request a callback, or call us directly at (303) 381-4585. Free 15-minute consultation. Quoted before we start. Real-time updates throughout. Secure portal for everything.