According to this document, John Otto owned "100% of the stock of HL Leasing, Heritage Pacific Leasing, Manufacturers Acceptance Corp. and Centerpoint Financial Services, and many other companies" as of July 28, 2008. This is an odd statement for the owner of those companies to make, given that Heritage Pacific Leasing and Manufacturers Acceptance Corporation are the same company (see below).
HL LEASING, INC.: A California corporation, registered at some point with several states, including until February 2009, Florida, to do business there. Also, filed as a creditor in the Constable bankruptcy case (8-08-76313-dte, judge Dorothy Eisenberg, filing # 6110054) calling themselves "HL Leasing successor to Heritage Pacific Leasing".
HL Leasing, Inc. held California State Board of Equalization permit number 1007260628 but when you run a search on the official site for that permit number, the site returns this notice: "Permit Number 100720628 is Closed and is not valid after the closed date". The "closed date" is listed as 06/30/2007.
HERITAGE PACIFIC LEASING: A fictitious business name for Manufacturers Acceptance Corporation. The name may also have been used in conjunction with real estate lending. Was listed with Manufacturers Acceptance Corporation as a lender on a deed of trust holding a mortgage. (search here for document 008807900 recorded 4-22-04). Heritage Pac Leasing was also listed on a deed of trust document 02665001 recorded 9-2-05. Heritage pacific Leasing was also listed as receiving notice on a mortgage notice of default on 6/20/07, document 406752, trustee sale number 07-7249 for property at 69391 Dillon Rd. in Desert Hot Springs, CA (Riverside) (more details here or here). Does anybody know if they were licensed to make real estate loans?
There is also a reference to a Georgia Office, listing 3104 Habersham Hills Rd., Cumming GA 30041 as the address and listing a single person as the salesperson there. The phone numbers given were 800-764-1457, 678-513-5167, and a fax number of 678-623-3730. The aerial view looks like it is a house, and it is listed here for sale for $269,900 as a house. It is APN 199-000-038 and appears to be owned by the salesperson and not by any Otto-related entity.
There is also a reference to a Texas Office, listing 401 E. Corporate Drive, Suite 250 Lewisville TX 75057 as the address, listing Ron Mitchell as the "regional sales manager" and "Fred Fernandez" as "Corporate Support". The phone numbers listed are 800-994-1672, 972-219-0223, and fax 972-219-0408. The address appears on google maps to be a corporate office. This office appears to have had at least leasing customers in Texas. Note that this site also lists "Elizabeth Rose" as "Documentation" for the Texas office.
Thanks to an anonymous commenter, we have additional information about an apparent branch office in Minneapolis. This link quotes Tom Quilling as saying "In January of 2002, I joined John Otto at Heritage Pacific Leasing and opened a branch office in Minneapolis.” The comment also says that "Tom's office is at 5353 Gamble Drive, Suite 150 Minneapolis, MN 55416; His telephone number is (952) 545-0102". This site lists a "Senior Account Manager" located in Minneapolis. There is a Tom Quilling Sales Inc. listed at that address, and this site lists "Heritage Pacific Leasing" at that address and with that phone number. The leasing news also has a second link with more information.
Their websites include hplone.com and heritage-pacific.com. The registrant (i.e. owner) of the hplone.com domain name is "Heritage Pacific Leasing, 3939 W. Shaw Ave Fresno California 93711". The administrative and technical contact is "Lopez, Rick rickl@heritage-pacific.com". The domain is registered through godaddy.com. The information for heritage-pacific.com is identical. The information for flyairfred.com is identical.
"Heritage Pacific Leasing (Manufacturers Acceptance Corporation, DBA)" apparently holds an "Active License", license number 6071137 issued "Sep 19 1996 (Lender/Broker)", license type "California Finance Lender".
MANUFACTURERS ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION: Shares a lot of the same people, addresses, and connections with HL Leasing, Inc. Heritage Pacific Leasing is listed as a fictitious business name for them. They are listed as the "Owner" of an apparently currently valid California State Board of Equalization permit number 099866498, which is listed as "Business Name: Heritage Pacific Leasing" and "Start Date: 01/02/1996".
MANUFACTURERS ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION (TENNESSEE): A company with this name is listed in a bankruptcy case in Tennessee (the Hylton bankruptcy, 09-30168 Eastern District of Tennessee) as having an address at 200 W 5th Ave., Knoxville, TN 37917-7402. They claim to hold a debt secured by a 2000 Plymouth van, and made a filing in the case on 2/5/09. The attorney they used is Wade Boswell, PO Box 221, Knoxville, TN 37901, 865-633-5353. Without seeing more, it would be hard to tell whether this company is related to Otto or simply shares a similar name.
HERITAGE LEASING OF FRESNO: A fictitious business name for John W. Otto, filed 4/6/92 with identification number 29210001346.
HL LEASING (Malaysia)/"HL Leasing Sdn Bhd": Shares a name similar to HL Leasing of Fresno and shows up in google searches for "HL Leasing". No connection to Otto or Fresno known.
HANG LUNG PROPERTIES LIMITED: The website hlleasing.com is owned by "Amoy Properties Limited" in Hong Kong, with an administrative contact at Hang Lung Properties Limited. Seems unrelated to anything relevant.
HANOVER HL LEASING GMBH: Shares a name similar to HL Leasing of Fresno and shows up in google searches for "HL Leasing". No connection to Otto or Fresno known.
CENTERPOINT FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC: A company Otto was previously involved with. He is said to have purchased a majority interest in 1997. According to http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/Gordon_Roberts.htm, Mr. Roberts, who was the "manager of Centerpoint Financial Services from January 97 to April 2003", was charged with using "Centerpoint money to pay $12,000 on his truck loan," and "$68,000 of Centerpoint money to pay off his home mortgage". The California State Board of Equalization lists Centerpoint Financial Svc LLC as holding currently valid permit 097084900, with a start date of 05/07/1997.
INDIAN RIVER TRANSPORT CO. DOING BUSINESS AS HERITAGE LEASING: A case in Houston (4:07-cv-01160) lists one of the defendants as "Indian River Transport Co. doing business as Heritage Leasing". No connection to Otto or Fresno known.
AIR FRED: Supposedly an independent LLC, it seems to have been treated in some ways as a division of Heritage Pacific Leasing, which itself is a fictitious business name for Manufacturers Acceptance Corporation. For example, Air Fred has a web presence on the heritage-pacific.com website. It has its own domain name as well, flyairfred.com, but that domain name is registered to (i.e. owned by) Heritage Pacific Leasing.
PACIFIC SERVICES I AND PACIFIC SERVICES II: According to http://hplone.com/more.html, "In 1998, HPL created two wholly owned entities, Pacific Services I & II, to allow qualified individuals to invest in certain lease portfolios owned by HPL. The activities of these two entities are licensed and regulated by the California Department of Corporations. " According to the California Department of Corporations, the only entity licensed by the Financial Services Division of California with a name containing "pacific services" was Pacific Services I, LLC, 3439 West Shaw Ave. Fresno CA 93711. That entity's license was 6071361, issued on March 31, 1998. The site states that the entity was "No Longer Licensed as of 1/17/2003".
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