What Should You Send an Investigator Before a Nashville Surveillance?

Why the details you send matter so much

Surveillance on a girls trip is different from most investigative work. The investigator is usually looking for one woman among a group of friends who may be dressed alike, moving between crowded places, and changing plans on the fly. Downtown Nashville on a weekend night is busy: Lower Broadway, Printers Alley, SoBro and The Gulch can all have heavy foot traffic, and groups often travel by rideshare, pedal tavern or party wagon.

The time you book is billed at Delator's standard investigative rate of $100 per hour (plus applicable tax), and you choose the number of hours. Every minute the investigator spends trying to figure out which person is your partner, or waiting at the wrong entrance, is a minute not spent documenting. Good information up front is the single biggest thing you control.

The core checklist

These are the details to gather before you book. If you only have some of them, book anyway and say what is missing.

• A recent, clear photo: face visible, ideally taken in the last few months, plus a full-length photo if you have one. Note any recent change such as a new haircut or hair color.
• Lodging: the hotel name and address, or the Airbnb address. If you know the room or unit, say so, but the investigator will only watch public areas and entrances.
• Outfit: what she packed or posted, matching group shirts, sashes, hats or a bride-to-be outfit. Bachelorette groups often coordinate colors, so mention it.
• Physical description: approximate height, build, hair, glasses, tattoos that show, and how she usually carries herself in a crowd.
• The group: roughly how many women, anyone you know by name or appearance, and whether the group is likely to split up.
• Plans: reservations, show tickets, a booked pedal tavern or party wagon, a brunch spot, or bars she mentioned.
• Timing: when you want coverage to start and end, and whether the night or the next morning matters more to you.
• Vehicle: if she drove, the make, model, color and plate. If the group is using rideshare, that is useful to know too.

Matching what you send to the service

With Hotel Staging (/hotel-staging), an investigator watches the entrance of her hotel or Airbnb from public vantage points and documents, with time-stamped photos, when she leaves, who she leaves with, when she returns and who she returns with. For this service the most important details are the exact address, which entrance she is likely to use, a strong photo, and the time window. Hotels in downtown Nashville can have several doors and a parking garage entrance, so anything you know about where the group parks or gets dropped off helps.

With Mobile Surveillance (/order-surveillance), an investigator follows on foot and by vehicle from the hotel through downtown, Broadway and wherever the night goes, documenting public activity in photo and video. Here the outfit, the group's plans and any transportation details matter most, because the investigator needs to keep her in view while moving through crowds and between venues.

If you are not sure which service fits, the guides on hotel staging and mobile surveillance explain each one, and you can speak with an investigator before choosing.

How to describe plans that might change

Girls trips rarely run to schedule. A dinner reservation moves, a bar has a line, someone wants to go to Midtown instead of Broadway. That is normal, and it is not a sign of anything.

The most helpful approach is to give the investigator what you know and label how sure you are. For example: "Dinner at 7 is confirmed, she sent me the reservation. After that they said they were going to Broadway but nothing is booked." That tells the investigator which details to rely on and which to treat as possibilities.

If plans change after you book and you hear about it, text the update right away. If you need to cancel or move the start time, call before the investigator is dispatched. All sales are final once an investigator is dispatched.

What not to send, and what not to do

Do not send her passwords, account logins, screenshots from accounts you accessed without permission, or location data from a device you secretly installed. A licensed investigator will not use them. Investigators work only in public places such as streets, bars, restaurants, hotel lobbies and entrances. They never enter private rooms, access phones or accounts, place GPS trackers, or break any law.

Tennessee law is specific on some of this. For example, Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-606 makes it an offense to knowingly install or conceal an electronic tracking device on a motor vehicle to track its occupants without the consent of all owners, subject to narrow exceptions. Tennessee's recording statute, § 39-13-601, generally allows recording only when the person recording is a party to the conversation or one party has consented. If you have already done something you are unsure about, stop and talk to an attorney before you rely on it.

Information she shared publicly, things she told you directly, and plans in a group chat you are legitimately part of are a different matter, and they can be useful context.

Public social media posts are a good example. If she or a friend posts a photo from a rooftop bar or tags a restaurant, that is information anyone can see, and passing it along can help the investigator find the group faster. Screenshots are fine. Logging into her account, or a friend's, to see private posts is not.

How the information is handled

What you send is used to carry out the surveillance you booked. Evidence from the job (photos, video and a written summary) is delivered privately to you, and nothing is shared with anyone else.

It also helps to tell the investigator, briefly, what prompted your concern. You do not need to share anything you are uncomfortable with, and nobody will judge you for asking. A short explanation (for example, a name that keeps coming up, or a change in her plans that did not add up) helps the investigator understand which moments of the night matter most to you, such as who she leaves a venue with or what time she returns.

Keep it to facts you actually know. Guesses are fine if you label them as guesses, so the investigator does not treat a hunch as a confirmed detail.

You can send details by text or email at contact@delatorgroup.com, or talk them through by phone at (629) 310-8667, which is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If something is sensitive and you would rather explain it in a call than in writing, say so.

Timing your booking

In most cases an investigator can be in place 1 to 3 hours after booking. Orders placed less than 12 hours before the requested start carry a rush fee, so if you already know the trip dates, it helps to book ahead and send details as they firm up.

Keep your expectations grounded. No one can guarantee what surveillance will show. What you are paying for is professional, lawful documentation of the hours you booked. Many trips turn out to be exactly what they were described as, and a clean result is a good outcome.