Since my retirement from active skip-tracing eight years ago, I now have the opportunity to sit back and observe the industry closely. Since I’ve taken on a teaching and training role, reaching a new generation of skip-tracers with MasterFiles, I ... [Read More]

"Hard cases make bad law" is a maxim attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, an associate justice and acting chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court at the turn of the last century. The maxim suggests that cases with extreme facts ... [Read More]

When Advantage Funding co-founder Ed Kaye makes a presentation to buy-here, pay-here dealers, he often begins with a list of seven questions for them to consider. Before going any further, Kaye recommends that operators stop finance companies from going any ... [Read More]

Recently an operator came to Ken Shilson and told the founder of the National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here dealers that he found an easy way to save money on every sale he made at his dealership. Immediately after Shilson applauded ... [Read More]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made its first enforcement action in the buy-here, pay-here space and handed out an $8 million penalty against one of the largest operations in the business — DriveTime Automotive Group. CFPB officials said late Wednesday ... [Read More]

PassTime now has a stronger argument about the potential benefits of its GPS devices beyond the payment-increasing potential for buy-here, pay-here dealers and finance companies. A Philadelphia woman, whose abduction was caught on tape, has been rescued — and her ... [Read More]

As the company continues to ramp up its Cancel Anytime lease program that allows a vehicle return without consequence should personal financial problems arise, DriveTime ventured near Capitol Hill for its next store opening, unveiling a first location in the ... [Read More]

The Internal Revenue Service recently issued a strong warning to Congress about the potential for tax refund delays unless lawmakers make decisions in an orderly fashion. Despite the dire tone the IRS took, Chip Wiley — the corporate trainer and ... [Read More]

Get compliant and stay compliant. It’s the regulatory chorus buy-here, pay-here operators have seen and heard if they’ve read any previous issues of BHPH Report, attended an industry event or traded war stories with fellow dealers. The managers of AutoTrader.com’s ... [Read More]

New-vehicle leasing is rising to record levels. Experian Automotive pegged it at 25.6 percent of all new-model transactions in the second quarter. Granted, the typical customer who comes to a DriveTime Automotive dealership — or many buy-here, pay-here stores for ... [Read More]