| If you are thinking of looking out for a long lost | | | | Write down the names and addresses or phone |
| friend or to know about someone's activity | | | | numbers of all the common friends and also make |
| without their knowledge through a private | | | | separate lists for relatives and close friends. Try |
| investigator or simply a private, then there are | | | | providing detailed addresses for the close friends |
| certain things that you will have to take care of. | | | | and relatives. |
| If using a private is your quest, here is the | | | | Collect envelopes and help your PI establish an |
| answer for it! | | | | address trial. It will be useful to know about the |
| First and foremost thing that you will have to do | | | | person in question through his old neighbours and |
| is to gather as much as initial information as | | | | elicit the character sketch of the person in many |
| possible. To find the unknown address or activity, | | | | perspectives. The person might also have aliases |
| a private must be fed in with thorough | | | | which we don't know of. |
| background inputs. | | | | Making a list of the favourite restaurants, hotels, |
| Find all the pieces of any written or printed | | | | hangouts, hobbies and interests of the person |
| information you have about that person and hand | | | | would help your PI get through many places and |
| them over to the private. The more you give, | | | | link each other to ultimately guess where that |
| the more you will get. Even if you think that the | | | | particular person would be and what he might be |
| particular piece of information is irrelevant, it is | | | | doing at that point of time. |
| better to hand it over to the PI for he might find | | | | There is no time to waste! Make your lists and |
| clues in it that you can never find. | | | | rush to a PI now. |