BRANSON MO NEWS: Buy PhotoLarry Rushing talks about paying $4,995 to Escape Resolutions, a Springfield-based timeshare exit company, during a press conference to promote a Better Business Bureau study on the Missouri timeshare industry on Tuesday, July 24, 2018.(Photo: Nathan Papes/News-Leader)Buy PhotoLarry and Gayle Rushing love Branson.Generations of their family have had wonderful experiences there. They are particularly fond of Big Cedar Lodge and were heartbroken by the duck boat tragedy on Table Rock Lake late Thursday.But the Springfield residents said they don’t love what happened to them when they tried to get out of a Branson timeshare contract they entered into about 15 years ago.The Rushings said they paid $4,995 to Escape Resolutions, a Springfield-based timeshare exit company owned by entrepreneur Travis Dibben. The money was supposed to get them out of their timeshare contract within one year.MORE: Better Business Bureau warns public about Springfield businessman Travis DibbenIt never happened, they said. And Dibben and his company never refunded their money.Instead, the Rushings said they finally paid $149 to Leisure Getaways, the company that sold them the timeshare in the first place.Only then were they released from onerous real estate taxes, monthly maintenance fees and other expenses associated with their share of vacation real estate that they no longer wanted.”It’s easier to get out of prison than out of a timeshare,” Larry Rushing told journalists during a news conference held Tuesday morning at the Better Business Bureau’s South Campbell Avenue outpost.The media event was organized to promote a Better Business Bureau study on the Missouri timeshare industry released Tuesday. The study report focused on Branson, which has 30 timeshare resorts.In a statement, the bureau said: “hundreds of consumers across the United States report many companies in the timeshare and vacation club industry in Missouri, especially in the …
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