A few weeks ago, I posted about the Riverwood Cabins, LLC Bankruptcy, which was notable to me because of the scope and magnitude of the amount of money that the Riverwood cabin buyers lost.
It’s a case where about 65 customers (and that number continues to grow) are asking what happened to their $4.5 million in deposits (also a growing number). The customer deposits appeared to evaporate into thin air in the months before the Bankruptcy case was filed.
One of the biggest questions was when the related companies were going to file their own bankruptcy cases (and why hadn’t they already?). The hope was that, when that happened, maybe we’d get some answers then.
Well, we know the first part: Woodtex, LLC, Woodtex of New York, LLC, Woodtex of Tennessee, LLC, and Woodtex of Texas, LLC all filed their own Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases in Nashville Bankruptcy Court late on Monday afternoon.
As far as answers beyond that, the filings don’t do much else, but add more questions.
And more aggrieved customers. These filings show that there’s at least twice as many customers who lost their deposits, with these deposits still being unaccounted for.
But, strangely, there’s not that much debt owed, relative to the deposits that the companies were constantly taking in. With this much money coming into the company (as deposits), you’d expect to see an equally staggering amount of unpaid bills.
The only good news for the Woodtex customers is that, because the Woodtex entities focused on sheds and smaller buildings, the deposits are about 10% of the money that the Riverwood Cabins customers lost.
Creditors Rights 101 
Hi have you heard if there is any talk of criminal prosecution. This thing smells. Let me know please. Thanks, Daniel G. Heppner, Esq.