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Zapmoto Co-Founder & CEO Clint Curtis
Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, 07:52 PM
We throw the keys to the valet on this episode. Clint Curtis is the co-founder and CEO of Zapmoto, which provides valet pickup and delivery of vehicles for servicing at car dealerships. He joins the Auto Remarketing Podcast for a ... Listen Here
SPONSORED EPISODE: Guidance to handle growing challenges of repossessions & recoveries
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, 08:49 PM
Managing delinquencies and repossessions might be as complicated as anything auto lenders do nowadays. To help finance companies of all sizes handle those complexities, this special sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast features Anne Holtzman, who is senior vice ... Listen Here
PureCars CEO Lauren Donalson
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, 03:53 PM
Lauren joined PureCars in 2015 as a sales associate, later serving as regional manager, national director and senior vice president before moving up to chief operating officer in January 2023. She was promoted to the new role of president in ... Listen Here

7 recommendations for independents to sharpen operations

7 recommendations for independents to sharpen operations
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, 09:33 AM
BHPH Report Staff
With about 45 days already on the 2024 books, NextGear Capital assembled seven recommendations for independent and buy-here, pay-here dealerships to help them stay on a positive track for the rest of the year. These suggestions touch on a variety ... [Read More]

Ignite Consulting Partners on tax season: ‘Watch your speed’

Ignite Consulting Partners on tax season: ‘Watch your speed’
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, 11:40 AM
BHPH Report Staff
Ignite Consulting Partners turned to their music library to mark last week’s beginning of the Internal Revenue Service accepting federal tax returns for the current filing season. To explain what this part of the calendar can mean for independent and ... [Read More]

Increases in bankruptcy filings reach 18 consecutive months

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Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, 12:46 PM
BHPH Report Staff
We’re now a year and a half into the upward march for bankruptcies. Reinforcing findings from the Consumer Stress Legal Index (CSLI) recently shared by LegalShield, data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy last week showed total bankruptcy filings jumped 17% year-over-year ... [Read More]

Car-Mart recaps most successful Holiday Toy Drive yet

Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, 10:45 AM
BHPH Report Staff
As America’s Car-Mart put it, “It’s quite a (toy) story.” The buy-here, pay-here dealership network celebrated the most successful effort for its annual Holiday Toy Drive, collecting 31,016 toys and delivering them to 31 children’s hospitals in the company’s 12-state ... [Read More]

Context around Top 10 locations with highest unemployment

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Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, 11:07 AM
BHPH Report Staff
FormRush distributed some intriguing unemployment analysis that might help buy-here, pay-here operators and special finance departments at other dealerships with their underwriting and collections efforts, especially in 10 locations. Susy Bento is the senior data scientist at FormRush, which provides ... [Read More]

COMMENTARY: Strategies for subprime market during challenging economic conditions applies to all

BHPH evolution: Key to success in a recovering auto industry
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, 12:38 PM
Tiger Okeley, Oak Motors
It’s a challenging time to be in the car market. A host of colliding economic factors have reduced new car production, limited dealer inventory and driven the cost of new and used vehicles to record highs. At the same time, ... [Read More]

IRS announces date for accepting 2023 tax returns

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Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, 12:54 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Jan. 29 will be an important day for buy-here, pay-here dealerships. The Internal Revenue Service announced on Monday that Jan. 29 is the official start date of the nation’s 2024 tax season when the agency will begin accepting and processing ... [Read More]

Experts put 18% annual rise in bankruptcies into context

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Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, 10:29 AM
BHPH Report Staff
Total 2023 bankruptcy filings increased 18% year-over-year, but Epiq AACER put that notable rise in context. According to data provided by Epiq AACER on Wednesday, total bankruptcy filings in 2023 came in at 445,186, which was up from the 2022 ... [Read More]

COMMENTARY: Recapping another year in BHPH

Details of upcoming repossession webinars from ARA & Weltman
Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, 03:07 PM
Gene Daughtry, AMS Consulting
Wow, another year ended, and a new one has started. Grandma always said life is like a roll of toilet paper; closer to the end the faster it goes! These years are about down to eight months now it seems. ... [Read More]

November bankruptcy filings soar 21% higher year-over-year

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Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, 10:18 AM
BHPH Report Staff
While one specific case triggered a triple-digit spike in commercial filings, individual bankruptcy filings jumped 21% year-over-year in November, according to data provided by Epiq Bankruptcy. Epiq reported total bankruptcy filings came in at 37,860 in November, up from 31,187 ... [Read More]
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