Find A Place To Live Anonymously



The first thing you will need after you make your exit from your old life is a place to stay. Depending on why you need to disappear and change your identity, you have many choices. If you only seek to have an alternate identity, you can assume at will, you would not necessarily have to move elsewhere. The choice is yours and depends on your individual circumstances for wanting a new identity.

 

Assuming you need to move, a temporary answer is to rent a hotel room. You can use your current ID to rent a hotel room and you will be hidden from just about anybody. Many “extended stay” hotels have inexpensive weekly or monthly rates that can even be cheaper than renting a house or apartment and much less expensive than a regular hotel. I recently rented a hotel room with cooking facilities and two queen-sized beds for only $179 a week. It’s cheaper per day and a monthly rate is even more reasonable for per day costs. Cable TV with HBO was included as was Internet access. I was allowed to have my pet with me so it is possible to take Doggie or Kitty with you. If you give your driver’s license as ID to rent a hotel room you are still mostly safe from discovery. No national database exists which records every person who rents a hotel room.

 

The only way you’re ever found is if someone you’ve told your new location tells on you. If you are running from someone that has access to your banking records, just open a new business account at another bank and use that account to avoid detection. No one can know what city you are going to so DO NOT TELL ANYONE to be safe. Don’t tell your relatives or best friends so they cannot tell what they DO NOT know. Someone who knew what city you were going to would still have to call every hotel in that city to find out if you are registered and have a room rented there. This is another good reason to choose a larger city rather than a small-town. If you are running from the FED’s and are wanted for a serious crime, you know they will check everything. They will check your credit cards, debit cards, and bank accounts to try to track you. Therefore, if you bought gas all the way from Miami to Las Vegas with your debit card, you probably won’t want to rent a hotel in Las Vegas. The Fed’s will surely check every hotel in town until they find you. If you use your debit card to rent a hotel, they’ll be there in minutes. They won’t have to check with every hotel since you used your debit card and led them right to you. If you don’t leave a trail of plastic charges or debits to your location, you can’t be traced. If you pay cash all the way, you can still pay cash for a hotel room without discovery and still use your real driver’s license or ID to check into a hotel. Especially if the person or organization trying to track you have no way of knowing what town you will be in. Las Vegas is the first place they check since many criminals on the run go there right away. Another city is advisable, so think about where you travel to for your fresh start. If you are in a big city, you could just move elsewhere in the city.

 

If you are hiding from an abusive spouse, stalker, or person who does NOT have access to your bank account, you can use your ID and plastic to rent a room. They won’t discover where you are or what you are doing. The only way they can find you is to call the hotel you are staying in and ask if you are registered. If you want to get away from someone like this then go somewhere they would never guess you would go and don’t tell anyone where you are.

 

If you have friends and family in Seattle then it may NOT be a good idea to go to Seattle and rent a hotel room there or stay with your friends or relatives. The person you are running from may be smart enough to call every hotel in Seattle and your friends and relatives and might find you. You may want to go to San Diego (or some other city where you don’t have family and friends). Especially if you have never been there before and the person you are hiding from would never think you would go there. This means they also wouldn’t think to check with every hotel in San Diego so you would be safe by just renting a hotel room. You can take some time to find a permanent place to live you can move into anonymously. I’ll give details on how to do that in a coming chapter.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Before going any further, I want you to know the main reason someone could find you is your own big mouth. If you tell other people where you are going, or what you are doing, you will only have yourself to blame when the person you are hiding from finds you.