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#444 - Growing Pains: A BHPH Dealer's Year of Remodels, New Systems, and Real Growth
In this episode of the Independent Dealer Podcast, Jeff Watson and Luke Godwin check in with Garrett Jones of Ella Boulevard Motors in Houston, Texas — a second-generation dealer who took over a 1940s gas station doing 8 to 10 cars a month and has quietly grown it to 300-plus accounts while navigating a DMS switch, a new payment processor, a building remodel, a reinsurance upgrade, and an RFC — all in roughly the same 18-month window. This is what growing pains actually look like when a dealer is doing it right.
What You'll Learn:
Why Garrett switched from a Texas-based DMS he'd used for…
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