Skip tracing a buyer is not the same as skip tracing a seller
Same tool, different problem. Buyer-side lookups fail for reasons seller-side ones never do.
Why the hit rate differs
A seller usually lives in the property, so the address and the person coincide and a lookup has something to anchor on.
An investor almost never does. The property address belongs to a tenant or nobody, and the owner may be an entity whose only human link is a filing or a mailing address.
What to trace instead
The owner's mailing address rather than the property address. It is on the deed and tax record, it is where the owner actually receives post, and it ties back to a person far more reliably.
For an entity, the business registration is the other thread — though a registered agent is often a service rather than the owner.
Budgeting for it
Per-lookup pricing is honest for buyer-side work precisely because some will fail. Paying $1 for a name you can use, on ten people worth calling, is a different purchase from buying two thousand rows.
Where a whole area is worth covering for one property, paying once for the coverage beats lookups one at a time — that is what the $50 unlock is for.
Questions people ask
Why did a lookup come back with nothing?
Usually an entity with no public officer, or a mailing address that has moved. It is a normal outcome on buyer-side work rather than a fault.
Is it worth tracing every buyer on a list?
No. Trace the ones you would actually call — nearby, recent, more than one property — and leave the rest.
What does a lookup cost here?
$1 for a single owner. Covering every owner around one property is $50, after which every lookup on that deal is included.
Other comparisons
See the buyers around your deal
Type any US address and the investors who already own property nearby come back on the spot, with the deeds behind each one. No account needed to look.