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APRO's Exclusive Rent-to-own Audio and Podcasts
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Rent to own Audio and Podcasts: Welcome to RTOHQ's Rent to own audio and Podcasts!
Here you'll find audio including rent to own industry interviews, rent to own industry news, coverage of rent to own companies and events and much more. You can stream, download, and share these rent to own audio bits rigth here on APRO's RTOHQ.org. Category: Company Features
Category: Legislation
Category: Rent-to-own News
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Audio Title: APRO President September 2, 2009 Audio Description: APRO President "Tiger" John Cleek talks about the rent-to-own industry's victories in the past year and challenges for the upcoming year.
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Audio Title: Cynthia Baber-Strunk talks about her new role as an APRO Board Member September 1, 2009 Audio Description: Cynthia Baber-Strunk talks about her recent election to the APRO Board of Directors.
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Audio Title: Todd Evans talks about the state of Aarons franchising September 1, 2009 Audio Description: Vice President of Aaron's franchising, Todd Evans, talks about the state of Aaron's franchising during APRO's annual convention.
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Audio Title: Vontoo has a message for you September 1, 2009 Audio Description: Vontoo messaging company provides rent-to-own companies voice technologies for increased promotions and labor saving collections.
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Audio Title: BestWay's Steve Kruse on Congressional Grassroots September 1, 2009 Audio Description: BestWay's Steve Kruse, who received the award for most Congressional meeting during APRO's 2009 Legislative Conference, talks to APRO about the most effective tips to generating support for rent-to-own in Congress.
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Audio Title: A Conversation with New APRO Board Member Dennis Adams September 1, 2009 Audio Description: American Rental Dennis Adams talks about his new role as an APRO Board member.
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Audio Title: Paul Davis Nations Rent-To-Own May 4, 2009 Audio Description: Paul Davis, owner of Nation's Rent-To-Own, is running for Riverside City Council Ward 4. He was interviewed at the APRO Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C.
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Audio Title: Ernie Lewallen, TRIB Group president March 24, 2009 Audio Description: Ernie Lewallen, a 28-year rent-to-own veteran, has served as TRIB Group's president for the past two years. He also owns 10 UHR Rents stores and three custom wheel and tire rental stores. Lewallen is a past APRO president who has been on the front li
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Audio Title: Kevin Quinn, Quality Rentals March 24, 2009 Audio Description: Kevin Quinn is the owner of 20 Quality Rentals rent-to-own stores and two RNR Custom Wheels and Tires stores, all in Washington. Kevin, a past president of the Association of Progressive Rental Organizations, has been a TRIB Group member since the mid
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Audio Title: Dan Fisher, Majik Rent-To-Own March 24, 2009 Audio Description: Dan Fisher is the owner of four Majik Rent-To-Own stores in Lancaster, York and Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Fisher got his start in rent-to-own in 1984 when his father -- who owned a video rental store -- started allowing customers to rent-to-own VCR's.
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Audio Title: David Moore, marketing director Countryside Rent-To-Own March 24, 2009 Audio Description: David Moore is the Marketing Director for Countryside Rent-To-Own, one of the most active and dynamic rent-to-own companies in the country. In this exclusive APRO Podcast, Moore, who has previously worked in newspaper and radio advertising before putti
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Audio Title: Lyn Leach March 3, 2009 Audio Description: Lyn Leach is the vice president of TRIB Group a past president of the Association of Progressive Rental Organizations and owner of 14 Ace Rent-To-Own stores in Nebraska and Iowa. Leach started in the rent-to-own industry in 1982. In addition to his vic
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Audio Title: John Cleek Jr., MRDA president February 19, 2009 Audio Description: John Cleek Jr., an Aaron's franchisee, is serving his third year as president of the Missouri Rental Dealers Association. In this exclusive podcast, Cleek discusses his take on the MRDA board's recent decision to add "vendor" training to the associatio
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Audio Title: Gary Romine, Show Me Rent To Own February 19, 2009 Audio Description: Gary Romine is a past president of the Association of Progressive Rental Organizations and a current board member of the Missouri Rental Dealers Association. Romine opened his first Show Me Rent-To-Own in 1988 and now runs nine stores in Missouri. His
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Audio Title: Dan Cole, National Rent To Own February 19, 2009 Audio Description: Dan Cole, National Rent To Own Dan Cole is an MRDA Board Member and its political action committee chairman who opened his first National Rent To Own -- now a 33-store chain located mostly in metropolitan St. Louis -- in 1984. MRDA's decision to in
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Audio Title: Xavier Dominicis, Rent-A-Center vice president of public affairs January 9, 2009 Audio Description: Xavier Dominicis, 44, is the new vice president of public affairs for the world's largest rent-to-own company, Rent-A-Center. With more than 27 years experience in public relations, most recently as head of public affairs in field operations for Toyota
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Audio Title: Mark Key December 12, 2008 Audio Description: Mark Key, manager with SEI Aaron's, is the new secretary/treasurer for the newly created New England Rental Dealers Association December 11. Key is a native Texan who's spent all his life in retail -- operations internal auditor and buyer for convenien
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Audio Title: Mark Anderson December 12, 2008 Audio Description: Mark Anderson owner of FastTrack Rent To Own in New Britain, Connecticut, is the new president of a new rental dealers association in the northeast representing Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Anderson began h
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Audio Title: David Kraemer, president, CEO Bestway Rental November 11, 2008 Audio Description: APRO Board Member David Kramer is president and CEO of Bestway Rental -- a 74 store rental company based in Dallas, Texas. Elected to the board in 2007, Kramer currently serves on APRO's government affairs committee. He spoke with RTO Today during the
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Audio Title: APRO Board Member Dave Edwards November 7, 2008 Audio Description: APRO Board member Dave Edwards is president and COO of SEI Aaron's, the largest Aaron's franchise in the country. Edwards, who is also the president of the New York State Rental Dealers Association, recently took the helm as chairman of the APRO State
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Audio Title: Mike Hickey, Aaron's VP Management Development October 23, 2008 Audio Description: Mike Hickey is the vice president of management development for Aaron Rents. He's a 15-year employee in charge of e-learning, field training and managers-in-training programs. On Thursday Aaron Rents announced it is dedicating a day from its annual man
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Audio Title: Sam Choate October 23, 2008 Audio Description: Newly re-organized Georgia Rental Dealers were treated October 22 to a talk by 30-year rent-to-own lobbyist and attorney Sam Choate of Atlanta law firm Drew, Eckl and Farnham. He also works for public relations firm ConnectSouth. Veteran RTO Lobbyist Sam
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Audio Title: GRDA President Andrea Bozeman October 23, 2008 Audio Description: Andrea Bozeman of RTO Unlimited in Thomasville, Georgia, was elected October 22 as the newly re-organized Georgia Rental Dealers Association's new president. Around 25 rental dealers representing over 200 store fronts attended the meeting in Atlanta. I
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Audio Title: William McCrae October 14, 2008 Audio Description: William McCrae is vice president for the Texas Association of Rental Agencies and president of Buzz's Lease Purchase and Sales -- a seven store rental chain with locations in Texas and Louisiana. He's worked in the rent-to-own industry since he joined
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Audio Title: Kelly Sayre October 13, 2008 Audio Description: Kelly Sayre is the president of Alliance Rental Centers, an 8 store Aaron's franchise headquartered in Denton, Texas. Sayre, whose been a member of TARA since 1992, served a two year term as the association's president and another two year's as chairma
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Audio Title: Becky Reopelle Interview August 21, 2008 Audio Description: Becky Reopelle was the first KLQ Education Foundation Scholarship Recipient four years ago -- the first of 28 students to win the four-year $1,000 per year scholarship award to date. A student in the dental hygiene program at Pierce College in Tacoma,
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Audio Title: Angela Quinn Interview August 21, 2008 Audio Description: Angela Quinn is president of KLQ Education Foundation. In this exclusive APRO Podcast, Quinn shares some of the history of the foundation and the annual golf tournament and auction that support it. To date, the KLQ Education Foundation has awarded $70,
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Audio Title: Tracy Snow Interview July 19, 2008 Audio Description: Tracy Snow is store manager of the Shelbyville, Kentucky American Rental store, a position she has held for four years. Snow holds two masters degrees, an MBA and and a Master of Arts in Human Resources. The annual trade show is just one example of what m
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Audio Title: David P. David Interview July 19, 2008 Audio Description: David P. David, vice president and general manager of Full-O-Pep/American Rental, began his career with the company as a manager in 1981. He took over as general manager in 1987 when company owner Jim Hammond retired. The company's 12 stores did both reta
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Audio Title: John Cleek Jr. Interview June 17, 2008 Audio Description: MRDA President John Cleek Jr. of Cleek's Lease or Own, discusses the growth of the Heartland of American Tradeshow from a state event to a true regional show with participants this year from Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Kentucky.
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Audio Title: Stacy Davis Interview June 10, 2008 Audio Description: Stacy Davis is the vice president of store operations for Option Rentals,and one of several Tennessee dealers who trekked to the Opryland Hotel and Resort in Nashville for the annual meeting of the Tennessee Rental Dealers Association.
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Audio Title: Chris Bolin Interview June 10, 2008 Audio Description: In this exclusive APRO podcast,TRDA Vice President Bolin shares his thoughts on the recently concluded TRDA annual conference in Nashville. Bolin discusses ways to recruit new members and keep the association active and viable in an RTO friendly business
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Audio Title: Larry Goad Interview June 9, 2008 Audio Description: Tennessee Rental Dealers Association President Larry Goad shares his insight on how to motivate membership in a state where business is good and there are no immediate threats on the legislative horizon. Goad, who owns five Zion's Rental Purchase store
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Audio Title: Bob Bloom Interview May 16, 2008 Audio Description: Bob Bloom, president and CEO of ColorTyme was one of 50 attendees at the recent New York State Rental Dealers Association meeting in Verona, New York. Having made a career of expanding such companies as Rent-A-Center and saving struggling companies lik
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Audio Title: Charles Smithgall Interview May 16, 2008 Audio Description: Charles Smithgall is the president and CEO of SEI Aaron's, the third largest rent-to-own company in the industry -- excluding Rent-A-Center owned ColoryTyme -- with 63 stores and annual revenue of over $80 million. In this exclusive APRO podcast, Smith
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Audio Title: TARA President Dan Matthews April 23, 2008 Audio Description: Dan Matthews is the president of the Texas Association of Rental Agencies (TARA) and owner of Dallas-based Rent Plus. Matthews recently addressed attendees at the Louisiana Rental Dealers Association (LRDA) meeting in Marksville April 22-23.
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Audio Title: Jeff Everson, regional representative for Sen. Mary Landrieu April 23, 2008 Audio Description: Jeffrey Everson, regional representative for Sen. Landrieu, gave attendees at the recent Louisiana Rental Dealers Association annual conference an update on the "Computers for Kidz" initiative -- a community partnership program led by APRO, LRDA and Land
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Audio Title: James Stephens of ColorTyme April 23, 2008 Audio Description: James Stephens is a new LRDA member and first time attendee at the association's annual meeting in Marksville, Louisiana April 22-23. Stephens is a new ColorTyme franchisee with a store in Shreveport.
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Audio Title: LRDA President Jeff White April 22, 2008 Audio Description: LRDA President Jeff White explains the role of a proactive state association and the benefits of membership to the independent rent-to-own dealer.
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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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