Licensed Florida agency A3400127 · Investigator C3400073 · Veteran-led, 12 years Army military intelligence · Phone answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week · Silver, Best Private Investigator, Bradenton’s Best 2025
Insight Investigative Group, LLC is a licensed Florida private investigative agency, agency license A3400127, that runs background checks for clients in Bradenton, Sarasota, Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater. Reports start at $175. Every report is prepared by a licensed investigator, license C3400073, sourced from records we can name, and documented so the findings can be defended later.
A report from a consumer search site is a database dump. A background investigation from a licensed agency is a record you can stand behind. We tell you where each fact came from, we tell you what we could not confirm, and the investigator who ran the search can be identified and can speak to how it was done. That is the difference, and it is why the two things cost different amounts.
What is included in a background check?
We run three levels. Each one contains everything in the level below it.
| Standard $175 | Comprehensive $600 | Premium $1,200 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity and address history | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Criminal records, past and current | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Federal civil, criminal and watch list | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Business affiliations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Employment and work history | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Vehicle ownership and driving records | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Social media and open source analysis | – | Yes | Yes |
| Nationwide property, liens, judgments | – | – | Yes |
| Corporate filings and business ownership | – | – | Yes |
| Delivered within | 48 hours | 72 hours | 72 hours |
| Rush handling | not needed | +$400 to 48h | +$400 to 48h |
Standard, $175
Identity confirmation and address history. Criminal records, covering both past and current charges. Federal civil and criminal records, plus federal government watch list records. Business affiliations. Employment and work history verification. Vehicle ownership and driving records.
Comprehensive, $600
Everything in Standard, plus social media analysis. We identify accounts across platforms, review publicly visible activity, and map the associations that show up in it. This is the level that catches the things a records search structurally cannot: who someone spends time with, what they say in public, and whether their stated life matches their posted one.
Premium, $1,200
Everything in Comprehensive, plus public record asset research. Nationwide property ownership, recorded liens and judgments, corporate filings and business ownership. Used before a lawsuit, a settlement, a partnership, or a collection, where the question is not who someone is but what is actually there.
What does a background check cost in Florida?
Standard is $175. Comprehensive is $600. Premium is $1,200. Those are flat prices for the scope described above, quoted before any work begins. Rush handling is $400. If a subject’s county holds records only on paper, retrieval costs more than records that are online, and we tell you that up front rather than after the invoice.
A standard report is typically delivered within 48 hours of a confirmed order. Comprehensive and premium reports run to 72 hours, because social media analysis and asset research are done by an analyst rather than pulled from one database.
What a background check will not include
There are records no licensed investigator can lawfully pull, and any service that offers them is either lying to you or breaking the law. We do not obtain bank balances or account records. We do not obtain telephone call records. We do not obtain sealed or expunged records. We do not obtain credit reports. We do not obtain medical records.
Those categories are protected by federal and state law. Access to them runs through a subpoena, a court order, or the subject’s own written authorization. It does not run through an investigator, and a firm that implies otherwise is telling you something useful about how it handles the law generally.
How we handle your file
Florida law treats an investigative file as a regulated record. Section 493.6121(2) of the Florida Statutes requires a licensed agency to maintain the case file for at least two years and to produce it to the state regulator on request. Section 493.6119 prohibits the agency from divulging or releasing the contents of an investigative file to anyone other than the client or employer, absent the client’s prior written consent or a narrow statutory exception.
A consumer data broker operates under neither obligation. It carries no state license that can be suspended, it owes the person who ran the search no statutory duty of confidentiality, and several of them treat search activity as a product in its own right. That is a structural difference in who is accountable for the record, not a marketing claim.
The practical effect is straightforward. Your file exists so the work can be produced, audited and defended. It is confidential to you, and it is not a mailing list.
Who orders a background investigation?
Attorneys checking an opposing party or a witness before a deposition. Businesses verifying a vendor, a partner, or an acquisition target. Property owners and executives running due diligence on someone they are about to be financially tied to. Individuals confirming who they are actually dealing with before money or a family changes hands.
If the report will be used to decide on employment, tenancy, credit or insurance, it is regulated differently under federal law and we handle it as a managed engagement rather than an online order. Call us and we will scope it properly.
Not sure which level you need?
Five questions and you get a recommendation with a firm price. It takes about a minute, nothing is saved unless you order, and you do not have to speak to anyone to see what it costs.
If the report will be used to decide on employment, tenancy, credit or insurance, the tool will stop you and route you to us. Those purposes are regulated under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act and cannot be ordered online. That is deliberate, and it protects you as much as it protects us.
Find the right report
Fixed prices, a licensed Florida investigator, and a delivery clock that starts when your intake is complete.
Call and a licensed investigator answers, day or night, including weekends. Written enquiries are answered within 48 hours.
Background check questions, answered
What shows up on a background check in Florida?
A Florida background check run by a licensed investigator typically shows identity and address history, criminal charges and their dispositions, federal civil and criminal records, federal watch list entries, civil judgments and liens, property ownership, business affiliations, employment history, and vehicle ownership and driving records. It does not show bank balances, telephone call records, credit reports, medical records, or anything that has been sealed or expunged.
How far back does a background check go in Florida?
Florida places no general time limit on how far back a private background investigation may reach into public records, so criminal and civil court records are reported for as far back as the record exists. The limits that do apply come from the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, and they only attach when the report is used to decide on employment, tenancy, credit or insurance. If your purpose is one of those, say so before we start, because it changes how the work has to be done.
How much does a background check cost in Florida?
Insight Investigative Group charges $175 for a standard background check, $600 for comprehensive, and $1,200 for premium. Rush handling is $400. Those are flat prices quoted before work begins. County records that exist only on paper cost more to retrieve than records that are online, and we say so before we start rather than after.
How long does a background check take?
A standard background check is typically delivered within 48 hours of the order being confirmed. Comprehensive and premium reports run to 72 hours, because social media analysis and asset research are done by an analyst rather than pulled from a single database. Court records that exist only on paper at a county clerk’s office can add time, and we tell you up front if that applies to your subject.
Who can see my background check report?
Under section 493.6119 of the Florida Statutes, a licensed investigative agency may not divulge or release the contents of an investigative file to anyone other than the client, except with the client’s prior written consent or under a narrow statutory exception. Separately, section 493.6121(2) requires the agency to maintain that file for at least two years. So the report is confidential to you as the client, and the file behind it is kept because Florida law requires a licensed agency to keep it.
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Prepared by a Florida-licensed investigator, agency A3400127, and documented to evidentiary standards.
Call and a licensed investigator answers, day or night, including weekends. Written enquiries are answered within 48 hours.