For more than thirty-five years, International Research Specialists, Inc. has provided skip trace and people locator services to credit grantors, increasing their collectable accounts by as much as 2-3 times.

Our company has specialized in the business of locating missing debtors since 1967. Carl D. Mac Bride, our president, has been in the people locator business since 1978. We are a fully licensed and insured private investigation company.

We have extensive experience in servicing the needs of over 11,800 clients in the following industries;

• Banking (credit cards/consumer loans/mortgage deficiencies)
• Finance Companies & Credit Unions
• Automobile Lenders (automobile deficiencies and pre-charge-off)
• Student Loan (colleges, universities,  state agencies,  and servicers)
• Estate Settlement (bank trust departments, law firms and insurance companies)
• General Insurance (missing witnesses and defendants)
• Law Firms & Collection Agencies. See Partnering Programs.
• Medical (hospitals and doctors' offices)
• Utility Companies

The majority of cases we handle have been worked by secondary and tertiary agencies.

Our company evolved from the growing need of our clients to increase recovery. The traditional skip tracing methods locate no more than 20% at best as attested to by Collection Industry publications. That is totally unacceptable. Our sophisticated clientele understands that investing in the services of I.R.S. will result in up to a 400% greater return because of our 80% written guarantee.

IRS provides the following services:

• Confirmed current address
• Confirmed phone numbers
• Confirmed place of employment
• Confirmed source of income
• Confirmed attachable assets