{"id":5330,"date":"2021-11-04T09:23:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T13:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/femimagazine.com\/?p=5330"},"modified":"2021-11-04T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T13:23:54","slug":"gio-vrsce-and-lenni-hendri-of-torque-rentals-went-from-homeless-to-running-the-1-muscle-and-exotic-rental-enterprise-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/femimagazine.com\/?p=5330","title":{"rendered":"Gio Vrsce and Lenni Hendri of Torque Rentals Went from Homeless to Running the #1 Muscle and Exotic Rental Enterprise in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Atlanta, GA \u2013 Two college roommates turned business partners were living out of their cars just a few years ago, but now, they are viewing life from a completely different vantage point &#8211; from their luxury penthouse overlooking the bustling city of Atlanta.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gio Vrsce and&nbsp;Lenni Hendri (real names Gary Green and Pierre Harvey)&nbsp;\u2013 have overcome their past challenges to establish Torque Rentals, a&nbsp; premier enterprise featuring American Muscle and Exotic rentals for entertainers, athletes, and business professionals. The company is raking in the business, with sights on becoming one of the top independent transportation logistics companies in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story of these&nbsp;millennial entrepreneurs is a unique one. While attending college, the two mutually&nbsp;decided to withdraw from school only one semester away from graduation, deciding to follow the vision they created together. They formed a \u201cpact\u201d and vowed to work together in order to achieve the freedom and wealth they believed their traditional career routes would not provide. It appears the risk paid off.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like a movie script,\u201d said Gio Vrsce. \u201cI\u2019m from Auburn and Lenni is from Dothan, Alabama. We didn\u2019t even meet until our freshman year in college at Tuskegee University. But when we did, we just connected right away. Then, we started learning more about each other and eventually, we realized we were cousins. 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