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Due to the fact that each type of account has its own period of dormancy, a person could search for money owed to them on a particular day, when their account hasn't been turned over to the state, so the state will have no record of it. Many times, people give up at this point, not knowing that their assets could be turned over to the state the next year, or even a few years down the road. On top of that, the the state's own records have to be physically updated by a human, so the accuracy of the records is questionable, because there is not someone adding listings in real time.

All of those issues with when a property actually gets listed in the the state's own records won't matter if a person doesn't know where to search. Many people just search any site that has a search box, but very few of these websites have any accurate listings. The majority of the "databases" are not real. Choosing an unclaimed money site to run your searches from a primary concern. Equally important is learning the search methods used by professionals in the abandoned assets field, and utilizing them in your own searches.

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