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Expo Wrap Up

Midwest Expo show floor.

Over 300 Rent-To-Own professionals trekked to Columbus, Ohio this week to make the fifth annual Midwest RTO Training Expo the highest attended regional show in the country. Read More.

Some 233 rent-to-own owners, managers and employees representing 29 different companies made the trip from nine states including Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, New York, and Ohio.

Companies with double digit attendance are as follows:

Countryside Rentals with 45; Colorama with 34; Showplace with 28; Home Express Sales and Lease with 17; Blue Ribbon Rentals with 16; UHR Rents with 14 and Continental Rental with 12.

The Ohio Rental Dealers Association -- which hosts the Expo -- also decided this year to share booth and registration revenue with participating state associations.

Ohio had the highest representation drawing 53.2 percent of total dealers to the show with 124 attendees followed by Kentucky with 30.9 percent and 72 dealers, Michigan with 7.3 percent and 17 dealers and Pennsylvania with 2.5 percent and 6 dealers.

Watch all videos from the show:

Ohio State Representative Joe Uecker.

ORDA President Mike Tissot.

APRO President "Tiger" John Cleek

ORDA Vice President Josef Burgan.

Josh Johnson, Out The Door Rent-To-Own

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2012 APRO Convention and Trade Show

July 24-26, Memphis, TN

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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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