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Watch out for two big bank-reform loopholes With exemptions for two industries, predatory lending is not dead

Auto repossession: a sign of the times

Its tough to be a lender

How to cash in on your old gas guzzler

Auto Repossession Data Indicates Healthier Consumer

Car repossessions in the San Gabriel Valley on the rise

Bounty Hunter Faces Legal Charges Individual Could Lose License If Convicted

Woman crashes car to avoid repossession

“Stolen” truck was repossessed

Council discusses repossession companies during public hearing

Mandelson visits Vauxhall amid GM bid talks

The $1,600 repo and other affronts

Re-po man attempts to collect already paid-for car, maces objector

Lutz Says G.M. Will Be Run ‘Like a Private Company’

Nissan expects tough African market in ’09

With good assets sold, ‘New GM’ exits bankruptcy

GMSA breaks ground on new parts centre

Pair plead not guilty in tow-truck death

Bonita Springs company finds upside during downturn

Car Wars: Luxury vehicles filling repo lots

China’s auto sales soar in first six months

Rise in repo comes with rise in crime

Prosecution asks court to release Pelisamen’s car to dealer

MVTRAC Selects Federal Signal as Its First Choice License Plate Recognition

Conviction for suspected bank robber shot by police would be third strike

FRAUDULENT INSURANCE CLAIM LEADS TO ENDICOTT MAN’S ARREST

The auto-repossession business is all about stealth, instincts

SAfrican June car sales fall decline slowing

Michael Jackson fan kicks repo driver

Bank demands to repo Tamarack lifts, snow plow

Vehicle owners want authorities to oversee repo

Two men struck by vehicle while trying to repossess it

Man shot while repossessing truck

Son wanted for taking truck

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Technology

One of the fastest growing forces that is driving the Repossession/Recovery Industry forward is Technology and this section is dedicated to news-related articles.

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Red Flag Rule Program

Are you in compliance? The Government’s FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is requiring financial institutions to be – so you need to be too!

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From the Editor

Nothing stands still and neither are we.   WE ARE CHANGING.  Yes, the www.theamericanrepossessor.com will be launching a completely new website 1 August 2009.  It will contain many new features that are specific to the repossession industry…so watch this space.

Last month, I was pleased to be asked to be a guest speaker at the RSIG Conference in Connecticut, and I presented a section on Marketing Your Business, which was totally geared to repossession companies.  (See Editor’s Column for more information). …more…

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Columns and Features

Today’s Field Agents
By Scott Deckling

Today’s Repossession Field Agent confronts challenges unlike any imagined by our predecessors.  As Debtor’s grow younger and more violent, and gangs and organized crime elements increase their presence within geographical locations, today’s Field Agent deal daily with violent situations.  To make matters worse – more often than not – debtors involved in situations have nothing to lose.

You can attribute much of the negative behavior to the moronic repossession TV shows, that portray our industry in a very harmful manner, hence the fact  many debtors that plan  and conduct violent incidents are prepared and ready.  I’ve found – unfortunately – that the same can’t be said for the people responsible for supervising them.

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This Industry is Client Driven not Repossession Company Driven…
By Susan Marston

Here we are at the beginning of another month and one that will be busier than the one before hand.  My travelling shoes seem to have become a fixture and of course, that means that they are ‘part and parcel’ of the work that I do.

At the end of June I was a speaker at the RSIG Conference held in Connecticut and my subject matter was one that I hold close to my ‘business heart’ – Marketing! …more…

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