Car Dealer Lawyer

This is a special Halloween.  Once a year we are supposed to celebrate all that is dark, mysterious and frightening in our world.  This year, the economy has done that for us already.  For dealers, Halloween is usually the last day of a tough month where there is little or no possibility of a big [...]

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One of the most difficult parts of the car business is keeping your gross margin high.  When you buy your cars in an efficient market and sell them to an increasingly sophisticated customer base, it is difficult to maintain a return that justifies the investment, effort and risk.  There are only two ways to increase [...]

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After the earlier reports that GMAC had pulled Bill Heard’s floorplan financing, it was not a huge surprise to learn that his stores closed their doors yesterday.  But watching interviews of some of his technicians on the news last night brought home the reality of 2700 people suddenly losing their jobs.  Looking at those technicians [...]

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The general manager of Carl Gregory Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Hyundai of Albany, Georgia was arrested on charges that he stole up to $9000 from customers.  The sheriff’s office claim that general manager, Joseph Martin, and “top salesman,” Mark “Bo” Kennedy, worked together to steal money from customers. Allegedly, the pair revised customers’ paperwork in order to scoop [...]

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The Georgia Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs raised new allegations against Bill Heard Enterprises.  The Governor’s Office claims that Bill Heard engaged in deceptive and misleading sales practices in violation of Georgia’s Fair Business Practices Act of 1975.  Specifically, it asserts that Bill Heard failed to pay off trades and engaged in “power booking” (overstating [...]

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