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As a member of the community and owner of WholeSaleCars.com, I’m involved with a program called Junior Achievement here in Albertville, Alabama. In a nutshell, I go into a middle school for eight weeks and I hold a class for 45 minutes to teach financial literacy.

I do this because in my business, I see what not having financial literacy causes. And I love to see the light bulb go on for those seventh grade and eighth grade students. We talk about insurance, finances, how to apply for a job, and even how to quit a job -- all those things. I'm a big supporter of Junior Achievement.

I'm also involved in a worldwide prison ministry called Kairos. We go into a maximum-security prison twice a year. I just have a heart for the downtrodden, and I think it has a lot to do with the way I was raised. I was raised without a dad in a single parent home. Until I reached about 30, I had no concept of what my mother went through to raise three kids. I have a soft spot in my heart for single moms, too.

We also hold customer appreciation events once a year, every September and at that time our 1000 plus customers get a chance to have have their car paid off. We throw a big party and feed everybody. It’s a great opportunity for people to meet our staff and mingle.

We usually have about 700 or 800 people attend and give away prizes like flat screen TVs, camping equipment, free car washes for a year, bicycles, and things like that. We have a local radio station here, too. We also pay up to $10,000 off the customer's car note – but they have to be there for that. We typically draw six or seven names before the person's here.

You know, some people may think all the things we do is a gimmick, but we are the real deal. We really care about our community and the people in it. Anyone who is a current or past customer knows that, and we look forward to proving it to everyone.

WholeSaleCars.com has been here in the Albertville, Alabama community since 1981. While most buy here, pay here dealers start with a very high mileage car to sell without a warranty, we start with a lower mileage car with a warranty.

We try to educate our customers on the fact that some of our cars have had previous damage which is disclosed and repaired properly and safely. But these same cars have lower mileage than what our competitors have available. These same cars come with a warranty for as long as you have it financed here. A 2014 Nissan Maxima with 130,000 or a 2014 Maxima with properly repaired disclosed damage with a warranty with 70,000 miles….a fairly easy decision! We’re the obvious choice.

Along with our warranty, we have 15 courtesy cars. If a customer’s car is in for repair, they get a courtesy car free to drive so long as their payments and insurance are current.

We do that because we understand that if our customers can't get to work, they can't make their payments to us. So if we’re working on the car, we extend that courtesy for the customer to use a vehicle for however many days it takes us to do the repair and also for the warranty to be valid. As long as their insurance and their payments are up to date and current, they have a warranty with us.