APRO's Exclusive Rent-to-own Video

Rent to own Video: Chris Bolin, Bolin Rental Purchase

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Chris Bolin, Bolin Rental Purchase September 12, 2008
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Chris Bolin could likely be the hardest working rent-to-own dealer in the business.

Bolin, who owns two Bolin Rental Purchase stores in Kentucky and Tennessee, serves as both president and vice president of those two state's rental dealer association's respectively.

Last month The Association of Progressive Rental Organizations honored Bolin for his work by naming him the APRO Rent-to-Own Dealer of the Year at the association's annual awards banquet last month.

Bolin was one of 233 rent-to-own dealers who attended the fifth annual Midwest RTO Training Expo this week in Columbus, Ohio, where 31 percent (72) of the total attendance was from Kentucky alone.

In this exclusive APRO video, Bolin describes the importance of the Expo's training emphasis to both himself and his employees, the progressive decision by the Ohio Rental Dealers Association to share revenue from the show with participating state associations and the importance of getting to know your elected officials in an election year.

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