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RTO Legislative Activity - APRO's Legislative Conference
APRO’s 2012 Dave Egan Legislative Conference
Rental dealers, employees and industry vendors will be on Capitol Hill April 17-19, 2012, for APRO's 2012 Dave Egan Legislative Conference. Congressional members will be educated about rent-to-own's important contribution to the economy and to their customers.
Attendance to APRO's Legislative Conference is imperative to continue the record-breaking support for rent-to-own's future. The face-to-face meetings in Congressional offices with members and staff who directly handle rent-to-own legislation have been the key to generating support and movement of the industry supported federal legislation - The Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act. H.R. 1588, sponsored by Representative Francisco "Quico" Canseco (R-TX 23) and S. 881, sponsored by Senator Mary Landrieu (LA) continue to add co-sponsors.The majority of these co-sponsors are a direct result of personal time and relationships built by industry members while on Capitol Hill during APRO's Legislative Conference.
Attendance has also been key to preventing detrimental legislation that has jeopardized rent-to-own's existence in the past. With the current focus on economic recovery, the industry is presented with legislative opportunities and challenges that make attendance to APRO's Legislative Conference especially important to secure rent-to-own's future.
After 18 years of representing the rent-to-own industry before the U.S. Congress, APRO's annual legislative conference is the legislative event of the year. APRO's Legislative Conference is where hundreds of rent-to-own dealers, employees and vendors unite on Capitol Hill to tell the rent-to-own story.
For more information about the APRO Legislative Conference, contact Jeannie Hutchison at 800/204-2776, ext. 108.
Click here to download the 2012 Legislative Conference schedule |
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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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Association of Progressive Rental Organizations 1504 Robin Hood Trail Austin, Texas 78703 800/204-2776, ext. 103 Fax 512/794-0097 |