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APRO's 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award August 5, 2010
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Kevin Quinn, owner of Tacoma-based Quality Rentals Wednesday, was named APRO's 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner at the association's annual awards banquet at the Marriot Hotel in downtown Louisville.
 
The awards banquet was the final social event of the APRO 2010 Convention and Trade Show.
 
Known as "The General", due to his fearless leadership as APRO's President during one of the most tumultuous times in RTO's history, Quinn earned his stripes facing down a dual pronged attack on the rent-to-own industry from Congress and the IRS in the mid-1990's.
 
"Investigative hearings by Henry B. Gonzalez, the IRS trying to re-characterize our transaction as a sale and bad press, this president dealt with it from all sides," said outgoing APRO President "Tiger" John Cleek. "He stepped up to the plate and has been an adviser and confidant to every APRO leader since then."
 
Quinn is the only person to be elected president of the APRO board in his first year on the board of directors.

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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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