I’ve been through the process of signing up and acquiring access to TLO. I called them up and stated I wanted access, I’m a real estate developer and simply wan

I’ve been through the process of signing up and acquiring access to TLO. I called them up and stated I wanted access, I’m a real estate developer and simply wanted to cold call landlords. They said they’d sign me up but I couldn’t specifically use it for unsolicited calls, I said ok and then still proceeded with my account creation. Scheduled a required on site visit, where an very unfriendly Russian woman came into my apartment and checked that the following was in place 1) My computer had a password 2) I had a locking file cabinet 3) my office door locked 4) I had a business license 5) Paper shredder worked 6) dedicated office with no bed (I setup a mock office in my guest room and slide my guest bed into my master room moments before she arrived) also she didn’t catch that neither the lock on my file cabinet nor my office pocket door actually locked) TLDR: Nearly anyone without a criminal record owns a computer, a business license and a bedroom can get an account. We sat in the living room and signed some papers and that was it. I signed in and was amazed, TLO data is very accurate and up to date. It’ll even show people on various government watch lists, registered sex offenders, etc. The only thing it’s bad at were email addresses, at least for my target audience they were almost always wrong. Phone numbers have confidence percentages next to them. I would get very surprised calls when cold calling people like that. Some people run very profitable enterprises in that manner. There are also FB groups of PI and ‘skip tracers’ and you can fairly easily befriend and ask to pull records for you for a price as to not have to sign up for TLO. Although this is expressly against their TOS.