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Cutting keys & cutting costs during repossessions and recoveries
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:42 PM
Drawing standing-room-only attendance in the second-largest setting at Used Car Week 2025, Ryan Miller led a six-executive panel session that focused on one of the most complex challenges in all of repossessions and recoveries. Now available through this episode of ... Listen Here
Four experts on automotive & the economy
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, 04:39 PM
Used Car Week 2025 again brought together experts who can explain which parts of the economy impact automotive most. This year’s event included views from Laura Wehunt of Black Book, Tim Gill of the American Financial Services Association, T.J. Cox ... Listen Here
Sponsored Episode: Winning Trade-Ins and Trust – Navigating Today’s Affordability Challenges
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, 03:15 PM
Affordability challenges are reshaping the automotive landscape—vehicle prices and payments are at all-time highs and negative equity is on the rise. In this episode, Micah Tindor offers a data-driven conversation with real-world strategies around acquisition tactics and long-term profitability to ... Listen Here

October bankruptcies rise but remain below pre-pandemic readings

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Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, 04:01 PM
BHPH Report Staff
While still not recovered to the activity level seen before the pandemic, bankruptcy filings are trending higher. Epiq recently released its October bankruptcy filing statistics from its AACER bankruptcy information services business. The firm said October new filings for all ... [Read More]

Byrider expands franchise development team

Michael Davis Byrider for web
Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, 03:02 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Byrider already has more than 140 buy-here, pay-here locations across the country. And the company recently added a new executive who is tasked with growing that store footprint even more. Byrider hired Michael Davis to reinforce its franchise development team ... [Read More]

War stories: Learning from difficult trial verdict against dealer

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Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, 04:19 PM
Steve Levine, Ignite Consulting Partners
This time, I’m going to share the story of how I learned the hard lesson that “everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.” I did a presentation recently on the importance of ... [Read More]

Car-Mart raises goal for annual toy drive

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Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, 02:41 PM
BHPH Report Staff
America’s Car-Mart raised the goals for its Holiday Toy Drive, which is now in its 13th year of being orchestrated during November by the buy-here, pay-here dealership group. Since 2009, Car-Mart said in a news release that it has collected ... [Read More]

PODCAST: Talking software development & private equity investment with Allen Dobbins

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Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, 02:37 AM
BHPH Report Staff
Automotive technology entrepreneur Allen Dobbins appeared on the Auto Remarketing Podcast soon after announcing he was part of the investment AutoManager recently received from the Beekman Group, a private equity firm based in New York. Along with describing the path ... [Read More]

NY private equity firm enters BHPH space via DMS investment

beekman group automanager for web
Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, 02:45 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Beekman Group, a private equity firm based in New York focused on building companies in the healthcare, consumer and the business services sectors, now has a presence in the buy-here, pay-here industry. This week, Beekman announced that the firm has ... [Read More]

COMMENTARY: NIADA pushes back against ESPN personality belittling dealers

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Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, 02:09 PM
Nick Zulovich, Senior Editor
The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association (NIADA) offered a rebuttal when an ESPN personality chose a negative dealer stereotype to describe one of his former NFL coaches who resigned amid a scandal involving derogatory comments made about league officials and ... [Read More]

Advantage GPS gains patent for ‘Unified Device Access’

David Meyer all access for web
Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, 02:23 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Advantage GPS received good news from a federal regulator this week. The provider of modern data analytics and advanced risk mitigation solutions for vehicle finance professionals announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted United States Patent No. ... [Read More]

Bankruptcies continue to be down through 3 quarters of 2021

Bankruptcy filings rise 17% at 2023 midpoint
Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, 03:59 PM
BHPH Report Staff
The American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) and Epiq combed through all of the filing data that’s been generated through the first three quarters of the year to try to project what might happen during the remainder of 2021 and beyond. [Read More]

ABCoA blends new CRM into DMS

Jonathan Hedy for web
Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, 03:56 PM
BHPH Report Staff
On Thursday, Advanced Business Computers of America (ABCoA) launched what the software solutions provider for independent dealerships and subprime auto finance companies believes is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution built specifically for BHPH operators. ABCoA added cyclCRM, which is ... [Read More]
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