Background Checks & Asset Searches in Brickell, FL
Find out who someone really is, and where the money went, even when it is titled to a company inside a trust inside another company.
Free consultation. Flat-fee pricing on most searches.
Brickell Money Lives in Entities, and Entities Are Built to Hide
Brickell is where South Florida’s money is managed and, often, where it is parked. Condos bought through Delaware LLCs. Family offices holding assets through trusts. Hedge fund and private equity partners with carried interest in vehicles nobody outside the firm has seen. Latin American families with a holding company in Panama or the BVI above all of it. When a divorce, a judgment, or a deal turns on what someone actually owns, a database printout is where the work starts, and nowhere near where it ends.
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 shells where Brickell assets sit.
Two Kinds of Clients. One Kind of Answer.
Discovery Is Only as Good as What You Know to Ask For
Family law attorneys use us to find the second condo titled to an LLC before the financial affidavit is signed. Collection attorneys use us to locate real property and business interests before spending money on a writ. Litigators use us to size up an opposing party before the demand goes out.
You Need to Know Before You Commit
A new partner, an investor, a fund manager, a fiancé, a nanny, a domestic employee with access to the unit. 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 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 and regulatory
Lawsuits, judgments, liens, evictions, injunctions, and SEC, FINRA, and state regulatory actions, which matter for anyone in Brickell who manages other people’s money.
Identity and history
Verified name, dates of birth, addresses going back decades, relatives, and known associates, including history under a different spelling or a different passport.
Employment and credentials
Verification of degrees, licenses, securities registrations, and work history. We call the school, the board, and the regulator.
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 and trusts holding property on the subject’s behalf. A unit on Brickell Key titled to a Delaware entity still shows up.
Business and fund interests
Sunbiz filings, officer and registered agent connections, out-of-state and foreign entities, and public SEC filings that disclose fund and partnership interests. 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, aircraft through the FAA registry, and registered and titled vehicles.
Foreign holdings
Corporate registries, property records, and court filings abroad, through vetted correspondents. We are candid about what each jurisdiction makes public.
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
- 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
How is this different from an online background check site?
Those sites scrape databases that are often wrong, stale, or missing court records entirely. We pull the actual filings, verify identity so two people with the same name do not get confused, and read the documents.
Can you find assets my spouse is hiding in a divorce?
Very often, yes. Real estate, companies, boats, and vehicles leave public records even when titled to an entity. For bank and brokerage accounts, we identify where they likely exist so your attorney can subpoena them.
Is it legal to run a background check on someone in Florida?
Yes, for lawful purposes such as litigation, personal safety, or a business decision. Employment and tenant screening carry extra rules under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and we structure those searches to comply.
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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