Keep Bailing

Segars had been out on $100,000 bail bond. While out on bail, the bondsman guarantees to the court that the defendant will show up in court. In this case, Segars did show up for court and plead guilty to first degree burglary, financial elder abuse and diversion of construction funds. He did not, however, show up for sentancing on June 24.

When a defendant doesn’t show up for court – called “failure to appear,” Read more »

Bail Bondsman and Magistrate Team Up to Tip the Scales of Justice – Electronically

Look around the bail industry and you will find an inordinate number of families in business together. Usually when we think of family business, we assume trust. Unfortunately, a family in Virginia decided to take their family bail business in a completely different direction and bring us our latest reported incidence of bail scams.

In Abingdon, VA, local magistrate, “Tiny” Mullin, was released from his job after using a coworkers electronic signature to set bail for clients of his father, J.C. Mullins, a local bail bondsman from an Abingdon bail bond company. Read more »

Lately, I’ve been asked many times, “Your business must thrive in this economy, right?” Or, “I bet bondsmen don’t worry about a bad economy; you must be thrilled.” We’ve even had people inquiring about a job because they think that bail bonds is a recession-proof industry.

I know most people have never had first hand experience with bail bonds. Apparently, the common school of thought is that crime goes up in an economic down-turn.

Last December, I took a call from Tony Castro at the Los Angeles Daily News. He asked several questions about the economy and bail bonds. Mr. Castro subsequently wrote an article about Van Nuys bail bondsmen “bailing out”. I spoke with Mr. Castro a fair amount of time and even though he quoted me on a couple of points, there were several issues I discussed that were left out. Since then, I keep feeling there’s so much more to be said. So, today I’ve written a follow-up article about bail, crime  and the economy. In this article, I’ve attempted to answer: Read more »

Upon hearing that I am a female bail bondsman, the first thing I’m usually asked about is Dog The Bounty Hunter. However, several people have excitedly talked to me about Stephanie Plum. Honestly, however, I had never heard of her before someone asked me about two years ago. When the first person who told me about her wacky adventures, I could easily confirm that Ms. Plum was purely fiction.

Recently, I was on vacation and there were three Janet Evanovich books on the bookshelf where we stayed. I thought that the perfect opportunity to find out what Stephanie Plum is all about. It only took me to page 3 of Three to Get Deadly to see Read more »

Sherry Borzo of dsmBuzz recently interviewed me for her internet radio talk show, Entrepreneur People, on BlogTalkRadio. Sherry was interested in learning more about the bail bonds business. Take a listen and let me know how I did.

Sherry paid me some high compliments when she Read more »

How is Bail Set and Why is Bail Set So High?

When most people hear about a court imposing a bail amount of $1 million or more, they automatically assume the person must be charged with mass murder or some similarly heinous crime. Actually, defendants considered that dangerous rarely get bail at all.

Large bail amounts usually mean that the court thinks there’s a chance the person might not return for trial or the court believes the defendant is dangerous to society. Someone might be willing to lose $50,000 to stay out of jail, but $500,000 or more? That’s a powerful incentive to show up – hence the large bail amount.

Consider the circumstances of these two California cases: Read more »

Rynerson on the Radio – Save the Date!

Sherry Borzo, owner of dsmBuzz, recently interviewed me for BlogTalkRadio. That’s a first for me and I have to admit I was a bit nervous. I talk with people everyday, but I don’t think I’m usually recorded!

Sherry spotlights entrepreneur people with the tag-line: Real Stories about real people that teach lessons in business and in life. Wow, that sounds impressive and she wanted to talk to me! I was so excited when she contacted me to ask if I would do an interview that I marked the wrong day in my calendar and was surprised by her call two days early. Oh, well, I think it still went fine. We’ll see…

Mark your calendar for December 23 at 1:30pm and tune in with me to hear about Bail Bonds on BlogTalk.

It used to be when you Googled “bail out” you’d find your local bondsman. Now, that search gives you the same Google Ads for bail bonds, but all of the search results refer to the economic situation.

Today’s Los Angeles Daily News, however, managed to combine the two with Tony Castro’s story: Bondsmen Are Starting to Bail Out. Don’t let the newspaper’s picture and the headline fool you. The only bailing out that Greg Rynerson Bail Bonds is doing is bailing people out of jail.

While it hadn’t occurred to me, I was recently asked if our business was recession proof. Read more »

We All Need Help Sometimes

As a bail bondsman, my job is to help people get out of jail. It’s not my job to give advice. Sometimes, that’s hard to do. Today was a good example, the phone rang around 6:00 am, I looked at the caller i.d. before answering, as is my habit. “Global Tel Link“ - tells me it’s a call from a Los Angeles County Jail. “Bail Bonds, may I help you?” I answer.

The caller is a male who tells me that he is in the Van Nuys Jail. He immediately tells me that his bail $10,000, he had $3000 in cash when he was arrested and would like to pay for the $1000 bond fee himself with that money. Before I even ask the usual bail questions, my warning signals are twitching. He seems to know the bail bond process, he sounds young and he has a large sum of cash. Read more »

Top 5 Questions About Bail Bonds

Last week I was at a seminar unrelated to bail bonds and I really took notice of how many questions people ask about the business when they find out that I’m a bondsman. Sometimes I think people are just making small talk. Certainly, “what do you do?” is a common cocktail party or first introduction question. Perhaps people ask me questions about “bail bonding” because most everyone is at least vaguely familiar with the Dale Carnegie principles about taking a genuine interest in others. Plus, we all know that if we ask about the next guy, we won’t have to carry the conversation.

For whatever reason, I do think people tend to ask more questions when they hear that I’m in bail bonds. So, I compiled a top five list of most asked bail bond questions from this recent seminar… Read more »