Due Diligence: Great Ways to Complicate What’s Easy
Few things are easier than looking the other way and doing absolutely nothing. If you’re an estate manager, you don’t get that luxury. Ever. This is true with due diligence. Since you always have to do something, you’re lucky that finding what’s out there on a person of interest has never been easier. Or more difficult. [Wait, what?] Never quicker to look into, say, your pool guy… But it’s never required more time. Cheap, but expensive. So easy, yet complex. You get the idea. The nature of access to nearly all types of information has fundamentally changed in the last 20 years. Remember looking up topics in your local library’s card catalog, searching for and checking out books, and photocopying and transcribing passages you needed? Hopefully you’re too young for that. If not, don’t mention it to kids: They…