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Rent-to-own News - Pennsylvania dealers gear up for packed meetingApproximately 35 rent to own dealers and vendors will head to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania tomorrow to join in the Pennsylvania Association of Rental Dealers annual meeting at the Harrisburg Hilton.
Participants will be treated to a packed agenda including talks on human resources, legislative updates, purchasing and product trends, bedbugs and buying groups. In addition, members will elect a new board and officers at the meeting.
"I always canvass the membership and this time around the biggest thing people wanted to hear about was human resources," said four year PARD President Sandi Frye. "We are pleased with the level of sponsorship and participation this year and look forward to a very informative meeting."
Keith Carrico of Imagery Marketing Group, leads off the day's events with a talk on human resource issues followed by APRO General Counsel Ed Winn III who will discuss federal and state issues as they relate to rent to own regulation and day to day legal issues. James MacAlpine, of RentDirect Nationwide will talk about purchasing and the latest product trends.
Mike Frye will discuss his latest invention, Bug Out, which promises an electric-driven portable bed bug solution and Dennis Shields of TRIB Group will discuss the benefits of membership to the rent to own industry's only member-owned buying group.
The meeting is sponsored by RentDirect Nationwide and TRIB Group.
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2012 APRO Convention and Trade Show July 24-26, Memphis, TN
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RTOHQ: The Magazine
RTOHQ: The Magazine is the Association of Progressive Rental Organizations' award-winning rent-to-own industry magazine, and it's available here. | |||
 CLICK HERE FOR OUR DIGITAL RTOHQ: THE MAGAZINE
RTOHQ: The Magazine’s upgraded digital format APRO's new, mobile-ready magazine is now available in addition to our print edition. The digital format provides the same informative content as our printed magazine, but also offers tools to make the reading experience more enriching. Access the table of contents page with one click or tap. Get additional information from advertisers by clicking on the links in their ads. The interface is easy to navigate and requires no special app—read our magazine on your computer, digital table or smartphone. Click here to access the digital version of RTOHQ: The Magazine March-April 2012.
A New Rent-to-Own Experience by Neil Ferguson Here’s the lowdown on APRO’s 2012 Convention and Trade Show, July 24-26 in Memphis. The RTO industry’s big event will offer many valuable experiences, including insights on how to turn your stores into “experiences”–the good kind for consumers
Who Is Your Competition? by Bill Keese In order to expand your customer base, you can learn a lot by observing your competitors. But first, you need to figure out just who they are. If you think your only competition is the rent-to-own store down the street, you’re not considering the bigger picture. APRO’s executive director offers a big-picture perspective.
A Review of Online Customer Complaints by Ed Winn III While rent-to-own companies have not cornered the market on negative reviews posted on consumer complaint websites, it’s no surprise that there are cyberspace beefs against RTO. APRO’s general counsel reviews some of them in search of a pattern and he considers appropriate response to online complaints.
Rent-to-Own Families, Part VIII by Kristen Card Our series of family-run rent-to-own businesses continues with profiles of the Homeiers in Kansas and two Texas-based sets of kindred colleagues, the Spangles and the Weisblatts.
Future issues of APRO's magazine will be available in this same new format. Click here to access past issues that are not yet archived in the new interface.
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