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Automobile Dealership Publications & Certifications


 

“Information is not knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

BUYING AND SELLING AUTOMOBILE DEALERSHIPS (We wrote the book.)

  • Is Now the Right Time to Buy a Car Dealership?
  • An Accountant’s Liability to a Buyer
  • Buying New Car Dealerships: Common Mistakes
  • Buying and Selling Automobile Dealerships, National Legal Publishing Co.
  • United States Library of Congress ISBN# 0-936381-03-5 Table of Contents
  • Volume I, United States Library of Congress ISBN# 0-936381-04-3 Index to Volume I
  • Volume II, United States Library of Congress Number 89-082568. Index to Volume II
  • Selling to Public Companies - The Effect of Framework Agreements
  • Personal Goodwill: Allocation of Blue Sky / Goodwill in an Automobile Dealership Sale

    INVESTING IN DEALERSHIPS

  • Investing in Car Dealerships: Doing Your Homework, Finance Bits
  • Investing in Car Dealerships: How to do it Right Pro Sports Group News
  • Toyota: Is the Party Over?

    VALUING DEALERSHIPS

  • Automobile Dealerships – Valuing Blue Sky
  • Automobile Dealerships – How to Value Them
  • IRS Revenue Ruling 59-60
  • The Future of the Lincoln and Mercury Brands

    OPERATING DEALERSHIPS

  • Automobile Dealers – Do You Really Have a Right to Refuse Inventory?
  • Analysis of Chrysler’s Project Alpha / Genesis
  • Auto Controllers’ Roundtable Speech
  • A History of Automobile Dealership Site Control
  • Site Control For Automobile Dealerships in the 21st Century

    MARKET ANALYSIS

  • Marina Boulevard vs. Hayward Boulevard Analysis, February 20, 2006
  • Marina Boulevard vs. Hayward Boulevard Analysis Update, February 6, 2007
  • Dallas-Fort Worth Automotive Market Analysis, February 20, 2011
  • Dallas-Fort Worth Expanded Charts, February 20, 2011

  • Challenging Site Control on Automobile Dealership Property

    NEGOTIATING THE DEAL

  • Buying and Selling Automobile Dealerships – Axioms When Negotiating
  • Buying and Selling Automobile Dealerships – Limitations When Negotiating

    FINANCIALLY TROUBLED DEALERSHIPS

  • Automobile Dealerships – Out of Trust – Tips for Dealers
  • Automobile Dealerships – Out of Trust – Tips for Lenders
  • Automobile Dealerships – Out of Trust – Keepers
  • Automobile Dealerships – Creating a Workout Plan
  • Out of Trust and Workout Advice

    TERMINATING DEALERSHIPS / LIQUIDATING DEALERSHIPS

  • Death of an Automobile Dealership – Checklist for dealership that is liquidating without a buyer using the same facility as the old dealership.
  • Automobile Dealerships – Terminating Checklist for dealers who are selling their dealership and having the buyer continue operations at the dealership’s current location.

    FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS

  • German: Investierung in den AutoDealerships: Tun deiner Heimarbeit ,
  • French: Investissement aux agences de voiture : Comment à elle droite ,
  • Italian: Investendo nelle gestioni commerciali dell'automobile: Come a di destra ,
  • Spanish: Inversión en representaciones del coche: Cómo a lo hace derecho ,
  • Portuguese: Investing em negócios do carro: Como a direito ,
  • Chinese: 投资汽车销售:你做功课 ,
  • Japanese あなたの完全なA-Zガイド ,
  • Korean: 자동차 대리점에 투자: 방법에 맞은 그것이, and
  • Arabic: الاستثمار في السياره وكالات : العمل المنزلي لكم.

    AUTOMOTIVE NEWS INTERVIEWS

  • Public Dealership Groups
  • Buying and Selling Automobile Dealerships
  • Small dealers can't afford price tags of best stores
  • Dearth of product, death of Mercury?
  • Gray Sky, Not Blue; Store Values Wilt

    STATE AND FEDERAL COURT CERTIFICATIONS

    Order Appointing Mr. Pico as Consultant to Receiver

  • Approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, 10th Circuit, District of Colorado, pursuant to Rule 202 of the Bankruptcy Code, as "Consultant to Debtor" in sale of a new car automobile dealership;
  • Approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, 9th Circuit, Northern District of California, pursuant to Rule 202 of the Bankruptcy Code, as "Consultant to Debtor" in sale of a new car automobile dealership;
  • Approved by the U.S. District Court, 8th Circuit, Wisconsin, as Arbitrator/ Appraiser in new car Dealership litigation;
  • Approved by the District Court of Colorado as “Expert Witness” in dealership valuation
  • Approved by the Superior Court of California as Consultant to Court Appointed Receiver" in check-kiting case
  • Approved by the Superior Court of California as an "Expert Witness", with respect to dealership valuations
  • Approved by the Superior court of California as a Superior Court Mediator in dealership/lender litigation.

    AUTOMOTIVE CERTIFICATIONS

  • University of Dealer Management, Management Workshop Program to increase effectiveness in the field of Dealership Management - National Automobile Dealers Association, American Truck Dealers certified.
  • NON-AUTOMOTIVE PUBLICATIONS

  • History of the 15th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron written by Mr. Pico under the command of the 15th Air Force, Director of Intelligence, Strategic Air Command (1968) 4 Volumes, Classified: SECRET/NOFORN
  • Educational Inflation, 1969, San Francisco Chronicle

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