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Asset or Heir Finder Alert

By: Thomas

There are many private Asset Recovery companies and Professional Tracers that will offer to help you recover your abandoned or lost property. Some of these firms will try to charge you a 20-35% contingency fee for the recovery of the lost asset.
Do your homework. In addition to regularly checking in our databases, check all old financial records including brokerage statements and tax returns. Pay special attention to securities with dividend reinvestment plans of companies that have gone through a merger or acquisition.
Asset Finders or Tracers specialize in Pre-escheat securities, Court funds and unredeemed government checks. They obtain these records from cooperating Companies as Holders, Transfer Agents and by searching Court records before the asset is scheduled to be transferred (or escheated) to the appropriate custodian Government agency. This way the Finder or Tracer can avoid both any licensing requirement and the finder fee cap imposed by most States’ Unclaimed Property Statutes – ie) 10% once the property reaches the government for safekeeping.
In other words, if contacted by a Asset Finder or Tracer you can be certain the asset is likely approaching the end of its ‘dormancy period’ and will be transferred (escheated) over within the next 6-9 months or less. If you can wait you may be able to locate the unclaimed asset yourself in the only National online database for unclaimed assets. If situation warrants that you don’t wish to wait and need the funds now, try to negotiate a lower fee. Remember, that once the asset is transferred to a Government agency and you still cannot locate it, the Tracer’s fee is likely to be capped at 10%.

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Thomas Tuke as CEO of American Refund Services Inc offers varies venues such as www.US-UnclaimedMoney.com, www.Unclaimed-Databases.com and www.Asset-Recovery-Service.com. As the Internet’s premier sites for unclaimed assets and property, American Refund Services Inc goal is to assist the millions of US citizens to locate and to claim their lost money without paying exorbitant Finder fees.

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