Owners' Vehicles Get Towed Away as Tow Truck Operators Get Carried Away
 It might be easier to accept the multitude of costs and inconveniences associated with having your car towed if you park alongside a red curb, in a loading zone, in front of a driveway, or in some other place where you know you’re not supposed to park. But when you’re towed from a legal parking place, slapped with illegal towing and storage fees, refused information as to who authorized the tow or why you were towed, and your car is damaged, personal items pilfered, and finally you’re brushed off with rudeness and sarcasm by the very people who copped your car, it’s not so easy.
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Kim's Catch of the Day: Auto Lease Traders; National Auto Specialist
 Here’s the catch: Auto lease companies offer to sublease vehicles for consumers who want to free themselves from lease payments, at least for a while, and who can get along without their car, at least for a while. But sooner or later the companies renege on the promises in both their advertising and their contract, the consumers can lose more than money, and often they still have to get along without their car--sometimes forever.
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Agreements to Arbitrate Must Be Initialed
Contractors who use the Better Business Bureau arbitration clause in their contracts must be certain that their clients initial in the space provided to indicate their assent or nonassent to arbitrate any dispute that may arise.
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Bureau Member Receives Double Recognition
Bureau Member Five Star Counseling and Educational Services and its president, Elsa Salguero, Ph.D., have recently been honored by different agencies for different, but related, reasons.
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