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Point Rental Liquidators SCAM- Guy Russell & Brandon "B.J." Cooke (by Boobie R.):

This is a re-post from page 16 that I thought should be read again and let Mr. Lyles read it. Lets all keep trying. _____________________________________________________________

Re: point rental liquidators scam - Robert Guy Russell & Brandon "B.J." Cooke O.K... let me shine some light on P.R.L. and raise the veil:

P.R.L. (Point Rental Liquidators) was the brainchild of a man named Robert “Guy” Russell. He is a genius at devising plans to make a LOT of money in ways that many would consider immoral or possibly illegal, while trying to legally protect himself from liability. For years he has taught his sales teams to sell timeshare based on the idea that the client would be able to rent their ownership out and cover the cost as well as make money off of it. I know because I worked for him for a couple of years and was well aware of the inner workings of his organization. At first he owned a company called Global Destinations Consulting (GDC) but had to shut his doors because of a federal injunction from RCI. My understanding was that this injunction came about because he was putting “RCI PTS by GDC” on his caller I.D. and was using their company name, as well as telling timeshare owners that they were coming in for an “RCI update meeting”. My understanding of the outcome was that he was no longer supposed to run or own a timeshare sales and marketing company. So he temporarily teamed up with another, more legitimate company, but his greed got the best of him and they split ways. He then found the poor H.O.A. at Sunset Harbor Resort and they agreed to let him or his new company Grand Leisure Holidays (GLH), which is a subsidiary I believe of the Parent LLC R&R Venture group (which stands for Russell and Russell for he and his wife Nonna), sell their inventory. For anyone who does not know the HOA gets very little of the sales price of the timeshare, usually 5-25% of the sales price and the sales organization gets the remainder. This took place in late 2010, and since that point he and GLH have sold over $20,000,000 in timeshare. In the middle of 2011 he held a meeting in Las Vegas to train his sales teams on a new program VSI that they were going to make mandatory on every sale because V.S.I. has certain benefits and can help owners recoup some cost. Now V.S.I. to my knowledge is tightly run and legitimate. Most of the problems that they have are a result of how outside brokers (primarily GLH teams) inflate what they can do. This is where everything took a turn for the worse. Guy decided why pay someone else $498 per deal when he could be making that money. So he reached out to one of his salesmen B.J. Cooke and partnered up create P.R.L. (Now I am pretty sure that neither Guy nor Nonna are on the company paperwork but if you look them up the office is at 6132 w Sahara in Las Vegas where his companies are located) and if you follow the money you will see that he makes roughly half of the money that comes into PRL. They knew when this was set up that they did not have the ability to rent out the timeshare but figured if anyone ever had a real complaint they could send them a check and they would still be ahead. They also were very careful on how the contract was worded, and for those of you who purchase, you understand that what you were told and what the contract said were two different things. Now, from my understanding, Guy has burnt Sunset Harbor and left them holding the bag with all of these ticked off clients wanting their rental checks and has moved on to sell other inventory. It is my understanding that they have closed PRL now (again this is my understanding) and have opened a new company, Excess Property Solutions (EPS). Sunset Harbor is not the first HOA that he has done this to and if nothing is done they will not be the last. Here are a few points I want to make: 1. PRL is/was a scheme, and I am sure EPS will be also 2. If anyone from RCI is reading this Guy is still having his marketing companies use “RCI PTS by GLH”, “RCI PTS by SHR”, or “RCI PTS by RR” on the caller i.d. and inviting owners to an “RCI update meeting”. You can verify this by searching one of the above phrases on the internet. 3. Guy and Nonna have taken the millions that they have made to open an Urgent Care med clinic in Las Vegas. ( Doctors Express in Henderson, NV) 4. It is hard to trace their involvement, for obvious reasons. He had a salesmen of his, William “Bill” Redford set up Redford Getaway enterprises as a marketing company out of Hiram, Ga. And Brandon "B.J." Cooke set up PRL. Along with this they often sell using an alias, Bill goes by Paul Young, and when Guy was actually selling he told clients his name was Ryan Roberts. 5. The company(s) address is 6132 W. Sahara Las Vegas NV, 89146. Guy and Nonna are at 2909 Sterling Cove dr, Las Vegas NV 89128 if you want to mail a complaint or you can call them at 210-386-7339 (Guy) or 210-326-9570 (Nonna). 6. Sunset Harbor is NOT a part of the scheme, simply a bystander which stands to take the brunt of the complaints and problems that arise from PRL, because of the way it was sold. 7. The people who are posting positively about PRL are, with 100% certainty, employees and salesmen. As a matter of fact, I recognized one of the handles as a salesmen of PRL and GLH. My final observation: It truly is much like organized crime. You have one center character calling the shots and the people and teams under him pulling the trigger. I know that there are A.G.’s in a handful of states trying to find out more about them. That being said, many of the “trigger men” don’t even realize the full picture of what is going on, much as I didn’t. I got out when I realized things weren’t right and suffered financially for my “betrayal”. But I can sleep at night knowing that I am trying to make amends, and hopefully this post will be helpful to many of you out there.

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