Complaint Review: Arizona Professional Towing Assoc.

Ms Jean making this claim has missassociated her experience with the wrong orginization.  The orginization APTRA is an industry association represeting many companies.  She needs to recant her claims and file it against the company that repossesed or relocated her vehicle.  APTRA does not own vehicles or provide towing services.

Again, please file your claims against the actual company that moved her vehicle or the loan company that ordered the collection of her debts.   

Sam!!! I have to say that either you are in the business or you just are a very smart man.

I have been in the repo business for a total of 8 years and have owned my own trucks for the last 2 years.

I could never figure out why people leave in their cars what they do, but I can tell you every 3 months (by law I have to hold personal property for 90 days before I dispose of it) I have one heck of a yard sale. The last one I had was 3 days 1 day in the snow and I still made almost 3400.00.

I have found every and every thing you can imagine from a bank bag under the front seat that had over 6,000.00 (never claimed, money went to Make A Wish Foundation) in it to someones remains in an urn (that DIDNT sell at the yard sale..go figure). Guns, drugs, more than the Adams Country Sheriff cares to come pick up on some days.

I can not figure out why people who miss payments and are up for repo do not clean out the car. They know it is going to happen, it is just a matter of when and where.

Jean I have to say that 400.00 for a repo fee IS outrageous. You said that they just took the car 4 mile to the impound lot, so they did not have to come out of Phoenix to pick it up, even then 400.00 would be very high.

Your daughter must learn to keep her medication in her purse. Locked up in a car if she is in need of it could be a deadly mistake. I know that this time in year in your neck of the woods is not warm so the medicine would not go bad, but still what if she did have a reaction and was unable to speak for herself? Who would know how or where to find it?

Maybe you could print her up a card to keep in her wallet that says that when she has a shock reaction..the hypodermic is located.... that could have been a very, very sad day. Lucky for her and for her family the only thing lost this day was a car that can be replaced.

I still can not believe that they are getting 400.00 for a local repo there. The MOST I can get, and I am one if not the most expensive in town is 375.00 and that is for a top of the line, do not tow, but flatbed it outta there car.

I would be all over the finance company. They are the one who chose that company. I know Flagstaff is not a big town like Denver (Don't laugh but I love Little Americas food) but I am sure that they have more than 1 guy in town that does pick ups. If not maybe I need to pack up the office and come your way that's some high dollar work for no work at all.

Best of luck to you and your daughter. I hope everything goes well for her. Money is tight all over right now and the sad part is that when people loose the car, the house is almost certainly next. Tell her to hang in there and be strong, things can only go 1 way from here and that is up.

A repo company isn't going to call to tell you that they are coming to pick up the car, that wold only give you (not you specifically but in general) time to hide the car or be there to cause a confrotation.

I'm wondering, if the medication was so important why wasn't it on her person instead of being in the car?

The date that this report was filed was on 12/3/05.

I meant to report that this was a late payment on her car, not a mortgage payment on her home. My mistake.

The company that had the loan on the car arranged for the towing . We just could not believe that our daughter was not informed of the towing beforehand so she could retrieve her medication out of the vehicle. We also could not believe the charge for the towing.

Your daughter missed a mortgage payment on her house so her car was repossessed?

Was she current on her car payments?

Can you provide some more information on this please?