Skip tracing turns a property and owner name into contact info, phone numbers and emails, so you can actually reach the seller. The best service for you balances accuracy (hit rate) and cost per record; test a small batch before you buy thousands.
What skip tracing is
You feed in an address and owner; the service returns likely phone numbers and emails from data sources. Accuracy and freshness matter more than the headline price, cheap records you cannot reach are not cheap.
How to pick
- Hit rate and accuracy in your market (test a sample first).
- Cost per record, and whether bulk pricing drops it.
- Data freshness, stale numbers waste dials.
- Easy export to a CSV you can import into your CRM.
Best skip tracing services, compared
Common options with publicly cited approximate per-record pricing. Verify current pricing and accuracy with each provider; rates and hit rates vary by market and volume.
| Service | Approx cost/record | Type | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tracerfy | ~$0.02 (verify) | Bulk skip tracing | Lowest cost per record at volume |
| BatchData / BatchSkipTracing | ~$0.07 (verify) | Data platform + tracing | Tracing inside a data tool |
| REISkip | ~$0.10 to $0.15 (verify) | Investor skip tracing | Higher-accuracy focus |
| Skip Genie | Per-record + plans (verify) | Manual and bulk | Smaller, targeted lists |
| PropStream | Bundled with data (verify) | All-in-one data suite | Pulling lists and tracing in one place |
| TruePeopleSearch | Free, manual | Free lookup site | One-off lookups, not bulk |
This is a roundup of options, not endorsements; confirm details directly with each tool. The winner is whichever gives you the highest hit rate in your market at a price that works, so test a sample first.
Batch and bulk skip tracing
Batch skip tracing just means tracing a whole list at once instead of one record at a time. You upload a CSV of properties and owners, the service returns numbers and emails for the batch, and you import the result into your CRM. It is how almost every wholesaler traces, because pulling records one by one does not scale.
Two things change when you go bulk. First, cost per record usually drops with volume, so ask for the tiered price before you commit. Second, hit rate matters more: a 10 percent accuracy gap across 5,000 records is 500 dead numbers you already paid for. Trace a small sample with two providers and compare before you buy in bulk.
If you are searching for "batch skip tracing," you may mean bulk tracing in general, or the Batch-branded tools (BatchLeads and its skip tracing product). Verify their current products and pricing directly. We cover how the workflow compares on Pipelio vs BatchLeads.
Bigger operations often want an API so records are traced automatically as new leads land, instead of exporting and re-uploading CSVs by hand. Ask whether a provider offers one and what tier it sits on.
After you trace: actually call them
Skip-traced data is worthless if it sits in a spreadsheet. Import the list into your CRM, work it in a pipeline, and dial. Pipelio is not a skip tracer, it is where you call and text the numbers you traced, from your own number, and track every conversation. See pricing.