Background Checks & Asset Searches in Aventura, FL
Find out who someone really is, and where the money went, even when it is a condo titled to a company in another country.
Free consultation. Flat-fee pricing on most searches.
Aventura Wealth Is Real Estate, and Real Estate Is Titled to Anyone but the Owner
Aventura‘s money sits in condos. Buyers from Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Russia, Israel, and the Northeast have bought units for decades, often through LLCs and foreign corporations, often several at a time. Add an older population with second marriages, trusts, and adult children in other states, and you get a city where a divorce, a judgment, or a probate dispute regularly turns on assets nobody has fully mapped.
Wasser Investigations has traced assets and pulled records for Miami-Dade attorneys and families since 1985. Travis Wasser runs each search himself, cross-checks it against county, state, federal, and foreign filings, and follows the paper into the entities where Aventura assets sit.
Attorneys, Heirs, and Families
Discovery Is Only as Good as What You Know to Ask For
Family law attorneys use us to find the second unit titled to an LLC before the financial affidavit is signed. Probate litigators use us to locate assets a personal representative left off the inventory. Collection attorneys use us to locate property before spending money on a writ.
You Need to Know Before You Commit
A parent’s new companion. A caregiver with access to the checkbook. A fiancé with a past in another country. A tenant, a contractor, a business partner. We check the record so you are not the last to find out.
Background Checks
Criminal history
Miami-Dade, statewide Florida, and federal court records, plus checks in other states and, where available, other countries where the subject has lived. We read the case files, because an arrest with a dropped charge means something different from a conviction.
Civil litigation
Lawsuits, judgments, liens, evictions, injunctions, and prior probate or guardianship disputes.
Identity and history
Verified name, dates of birth, addresses going back decades, prior marriages, relatives, and known associates, including history under a different spelling or a different passport.
Employment, credentials, and licensing
Verification of degrees, professional licenses, caregiver credentials, and work history. We call the source, in the U.S. and abroad.
Reputation and online presence
Public social media, news, and forum activity, preserved with dates before the subject cleans it up.
Asset Searches
Real property
Deeds, mortgages, and tax records across every county where the subject has a footprint, plus the LLCs, trusts, and foreign corporations holding property on the subject’s behalf. A unit on Williams Island titled to a BVI company still shows up.
Business interests
Sunbiz filings, officer and registered agent connections, out-of-state and foreign entities. We map the web of companies that connects back to one person.
Boats, aircraft, and vehicles
Vessel registrations through the FWC and Coast Guard documentation, which for the marinas along the Intracoastal is where a lot of hidden wealth shows up. Aircraft through the FAA registry. Registered and titled vehicles.
Foreign holdings
Corporate registries, property records, and court filings in Latin America, Europe, and Israel, through vetted correspondents. We are candid about what each jurisdiction makes public.
Estate assets and elder exploitation
Assets a personal representative did not disclose, property transferred before death, accounts moved under a power of attorney, and new names with signing authority. We document the pattern so an attorney can act.
Bank and brokerage accounts
Federal law limits how these can be located. We work within it: public records, litigation history, subpoena support, and coordination with your attorney’s forensic accountant. We do not use pretexting. Any investigator promising account balances without a subpoena is violating the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and putting your case at risk.
The Report
- A written findings report with every source cited and the underlying records attached
- Property, vessel, and business schedules formatted for attachment to a motion or an estate inventory
- An entity map for multi-company subjects
- An assessment of what is verified, what is probable, and what needs a subpoena
- Investigator availability for affidavit or testimony on how the records were obtained
Questions About Background and Asset Searches
Can you find condos my spouse bought through a company?
Yes. Property records show the entity, and entity records show the people behind it. This is the most common Aventura asset search we run.
Can you find assets moved out of the country?
Often, yes. Property, companies, and vehicles leave public records in most countries. We work with correspondents who know the local registries. For bank accounts, we identify where they likely exist so your attorney can pursue them.
How is this different from an online background check site?
Those sites scrape databases that are often wrong, stale, or missing court records entirely, and they are useless for anyone whose history is outside the country. We pull the actual filings, verify identity, and read the documents.
How long does a search take?
Most domestic background checks come back in two to five business days. Asset searches that cross state or national lines take one to three weeks.
What does it cost?
Most searches are a flat fee quoted in writing before we start. Multi-entity and international asset work is estimated by the hour.
Know Before You Decide
Tell us who you need to know about and why. We will tell you what the records can show and what it will cost.
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