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Hotel Surveillance is one of the most problematic areas where a private investigator has to work. We are often asked to watch people traveling on business. Many of these cases involve the subject potentially having an affair with a co-worker, so our clients are always asking to see if these two people are staying in the same room. Well, think about the last few times you stayed in hotel. How much time did you spend in the hallway in front of your room? How many people were just standing around in the hallway reading the newspaper? Would you call security if you saw the same man standing in the hall an hour later (yes everyone else would)? Hotel Surveillance makes life a little difficult for us and sometimes it is impossible for us to get the proof you’re looking for. Your spouse can go back to his/her room and then have the other person show up an hour later, etc. etc. Sometimes we are lucky enough to be able to book the room directly across the hall from the subject, but those opportunities are rare. More frequently, we need multiple investigators to get the job done correctly.

Sometimes you just need to use more than one investigator to catch a cautious cheater. Often our clients express concern about the cost of two investigators vs. one. What we often recommend is using two investigators (and get the job done correctly) but use them for a shorter amount of time. We have even used two investigator for purposes of following the subject through traffic to where ever he or she is going, and then dropping one of the investigators and letting the second private investigator get the film from there. We try and be flexible and work with our clients whenever possible. For more information, call one of our private investigators at 888-677-9700.

We had a very unfortunate call from a prospective client who discussed her options of having her spouse followed. She was going to work out the detail and call us back. When she did, she informed us that her husband confronted her approximately one hour after she spoke with us. He quoted our investigator word for word. She was calling from her cellphone inside her house while he was at work. It’s unfortunate that this husband resorted to a bugged house in order to keep his secret safe.

Why do I need someone with a license to catch my cheating spouse? Doing it yourself is something that happens every day. Following your spouse is not illegal and maybe just the ticket to getting the proof you need to move on with your life, but there are risks. First of all, your cheating spouse is likely to be VERY aware of where you are and what you are doing. They take great care to monitor your activity to help reduce the risk that they will be caught (For some detail about the lenghts they will go to, visit our Cautious Cheater page) There is also the obvious fact that you are the spouse and you have none of the training and experience in surveillance that a private investigator does. Not only does your spouse know you and what you drive, and your mom’s car and uncle Bill’s truck, you are likely going to be very excited and nervous doing this yourself. These factors will certainly increase your odds of being caught and then you can forget about knowing the truth. If you going to try and gather some proof for court, that goes out the door too. Your a party and any evidence you gather will be suspect at best.

But what if I get a friend to do it for me? If you are paying the friend, then they are breaking the law and engaging in professional investigaitons without a license. They too lack the training and experience to get the job done correctly. They are also suspect when it comes to gathering evidence because they have a relationship with you. They could be noticed and if detected, potentially placed in harms way. The list goes on. To make this post a bit shorter, when you need to know the truth, invest in professional representation. The money will be well spent and you will get the proof you need to move on with your life.

We always get calls and e-mail from people who want to become a private investigator or want to work with us. Well, working with us is not so easy. We only hire private investigators who are licensed in their state and have the experience we require to ensure that they can deliver what our clients expect. We also have most of our little world covered and do not change players very often.

As far as becoming a private investigator, each state has it’s own requirements while a few have none. A quick Google search will get you the agency responsible for licensing in your state and you can take it from there. (If you can’t find out who licenses PIs in your state, you may want to rethink this as a vocation) Education is often a requirement or a law enforcement background, but more often experience is needed. That is experience working for an agency under the supervision of a private investigator. This is the hard part. How do you find someone that will hire you and train you? In our experience, the large investigative agencies are best for this stuff. They have defined procedures that they can teach you and access to worthwhile cases. The down side is many people want this experience making the jobs difficult to come by and the wages low. If you can find a small outfit that needs help, you might learn more but please understand, no private investigator is excited to teach you what they know only to have you leave and open up down the street to compete against them. If you are still interested, try a Yahoo local search for private investigators near you, check them out to make sure they are not operating out of mom’s basement and send them an actual well written letter on nice paper (no not an e-mail or a shitty fax copy of your resume). They get 100 resumes over the fax and they read none of them. No need to say why e-mail is ignored these days. A blind phone call will also get you very little. Send the letter, maybe two and tell them you will be calling. You will stand our from the crowd. Good Luck.