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Rent-to-own News - Quinn is APRO Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
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.
"You are all my family," Quinn said, "and you just don't know how much this means to me today."
Listen to podcast with Kevin Quinn here.
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APRO's 2011 Dave Egan Legislative Conference
May 2-4, Washington, DC
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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. | |||
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Click the links below to download each article as a PDF
Complete issue of RTOHQ: The Magazine | July-August 2010
David Lane, APRO's 2010 Employee of the Year by Murlin Evans David Lane, an Indiana-based Premier Rental-Purchase employee, is known for many selfless deeds that help his community and inspire his company.
by Murlin Evans Louise Brown has been a BestWay Rent-To-Own customer in Virginia for 20 years—and her passion for helping those in need runs deep. "I've always believed that if you take care of others, they'll take care of you."
by Kristen Card With a combined 153 years of service to the rent-to-own industry, the APRO staff makes hard work seem easy. Meet the modestly sized group of professionals—plus a real "fat cat"—who work on your behalf.
by Ed Winn III There is a growing movement to "nudge" consumers' behavior. Consider it a subtle attack on the flank of individual freedom that, if allowed to develop unchecked, could set its sights on rent-to-own. It if does, the results for rental dealers will not be pretty. A recap of the highlights at APRO's 2010 Rent-to-Own Convention and Trade Show, held July 19–22 in Louisville, Kentucky. In addition to learning, purchasing and socializing, rental dealers and vendors gathered to celebrate the association's 30th anniversary.
Cover illustration by Dave Cutler
See the current issue of RTOHQ: The Magazine... [PDF format] [HTML format]
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