Know who you are dealing with, before it matters
Background investigations and due diligence for individuals and businesses across Brevard County — research done properly, and interpreted by someone who knows what the records actually mean.
Background Checks & Due Diligence in Melbourne & Brevard County
A twenty-dollar website will hand you a page of results in eleven seconds. The problem is not that those sites find nothing — it is that you have no way of knowing what they missed, and no way of telling a real match from a common name.
A professional background investigation is different in three ways. It searches the sources those tools do not reach, including county-level records that never make it into national aggregators. It verifies that the records actually belong to the person you are asking about. And it comes back with an explanation rather than a data dump — what the record means, how old it is, and whether it is relevant to your decision.
People ask us for this before hiring someone into a position of trust, before going into business with a partner, before a parent moves a new adult into a home where their children live, and before signing something with real money behind it.
Reasons people ask for a background investigation
If your situation is not on this list, it is still worth a conversation — most are not.
- Verifying a business partner, investor or vendor before committing
- Checking someone who will be around your children or a vulnerable family member
- Confirming that an online relationship is who they claim to be
- Pre-employment due diligence for a position of trust
- Verifying a tenant, contractor or caregiver
- Confirming identity, addresses and history before a significant transaction
- Supporting an attorney assessing a party or witness in litigation
What a proper background investigation involves
-
01
Define what the decision requires
A pre-employment check and a due-diligence check on a business partner are different pieces of work. We start from the decision you are making.
-
02
Identity resolution
Establishing that the subject is who you think — names, dates of birth, known addresses — so the records we return actually belong to them.
-
03
Records research
Criminal and civil court records, judgments and liens, business filings, property and address history, licensing, and public-record verification of employment and education claims.
-
04
A report you can act on
Findings in plain language, with the sources cited and the significant items explained, plus an honest note about anything that could not be verified.
Why this is worth doing properly
The two failure modes of a cheap online search are opposite and equally costly.
The first is a false negative. Consumer databases are assembled from whatever they can buy in bulk, and coverage of Florida county court records is inconsistent. A charge filed in a county that does not feed the aggregator simply does not appear, and you conclude the person is clean. The second is a false positive: a common name pulls back somebody else's record, and you decline a candidate or accuse a partner on the strength of a mismatch. Both happen constantly.
There is also a legal dimension that catches employers out. If a background check is being used to make an employment, tenancy or credit decision, federal and state law impose specific requirements on how that information may be obtained and used, including disclosure and consent obligations. If that is your situation, tell us at the outset — the requirements shape the work, and they are not optional. What follows here is general information, not legal advice.
Why clients choose Redeemed for background checks & due diligence
Records are verified, not just retrieved. Anything significant is confirmed against a source rather than passed through from an aggregator.
You get context. A fifteen-year-old misdemeanour and a recent pattern of civil judgments are very different signals. The report says which is which.
Honest limits. Some things are simply not in the public record. Where we could not verify something, the report says we could not verify it, rather than implying an absence of record is proof of absence.
Discretion. The subject is not contacted and does not learn of the enquiry.
Background Checks & Due Diligence — common questions
Those services return whatever is in a purchased database, with no verification that the records belong to your subject and no way to know what is missing. A professional investigation resolves identity first, searches sources those databases do not reach — including county-level court records — and interprets the results. It costs more because a person does the work.
Generally available: criminal and civil court records, judgments and liens, bankruptcies, property and address history, business filings and registered agents, professional licensing, and public-record confirmation of many claims about employment or education. Not lawfully available to an investigator: bank balances and account details, credit reports outside a permissible purpose, sealed or expunged records, medical records, and the contents of anyone's private communications.
Most background investigations are completed within a few business days. Timelines stretch where a subject has lived in many jurisdictions, where the name is very common, or where a specific county requires a manual records request.
Not through us — we do not contact the subject. The exception is where the law requires disclosure and consent, which is the case for checks used to make certain employment, tenancy or credit decisions. If that is your situation, say so at the start.
Yes, and it is one of the more common requests we get. Confirming that a person is real, is who they say they are, and has the history they describe is straightforward work, and it is a great deal cheaper than the alternative.
Related services and reading
Tell us what is going on.
Every case starts the same way — a private conversation about your situation and whether background checks & due diligence is the right approach. It costs nothing to ask.
- Free, private, no obligation
- You will speak with a licensed investigator
- Scope and cost agreed before any work begins
Rather talk it through? (321) 549-1780
Request a confidential consultation
Tell us only what you are comfortable putting in writing. We will follow up privately.
Message received — confidentially.
A licensed investigator will follow up personally, usually the same day. If your situation is urgent, call (321) 549-1780 and you will reach us directly.
Call (321) 549-1780