 APRO: The Official Voice of the Rent to Own Industry
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Rent-to-own Articles, Tidbits and Extras
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Let Them Eat Cheesecake in a Rent to Own Oven - One of the wonderful benefits of outfitting families with quality rent to own furniture, electronics, appliances, computers, jewelry, and other assorted goods is receiving feedback from satisfied customers...
Hollywood at Your Fingertips with Rent to Own Electronics - With the NFL Superbowl championship set to take place in Peoria, Arizona on February 3rd, 2008, we have seen a dramatic increase in our big screen television rentals... Renting: The Gateway to Quality Used Packaging Equipment - Today renting is often the gateway to a variety of high quality products. Consumers are increasingly weary of the risk of purchasing a product for life... Trust Rent to Own Products for a Fast Home Sale - In the competitive housing market, companies are always looking for new ways to keep a competitive edge. Home owners, home builders, real estate agents, and interior designers alike agree that rent to own products finish off a house and create a warm, soothing environment that is sure to entice homebuyers... Rented Furniture in the Workplace - Many of us think that families are the only people that enjoy the benefits of rented furniture and appliances. Look closer and you will find rented furniture and appliances in a myriad of work settings from hospitals to large-scale office buildings... Rent to Own Products Offer the Comforts of Home to Traveling Nurses - With the shortage of skilled medical professionals both in the United States and internationally, traveling nurses are in constant demand. Nurses often travel to an area to fill short-term contracts and meet staffing demands... Rent to Own Computers Offer Cost Saving Alternatives for the Self-Employed Entrepreneur - The men and women in the rent to own industry are representative of independent businessmen and businesswomen everywhere... Rented Computers Resolves Temporary Technical Needs for Internet Based Companies - These days rented furniture and appliances are for much more than the family home. From a technology standpoint, businesses find it is difficult to keep up with the steady steam of innovation offered by computers... |
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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 |