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Worth Custom Woodworks

Summary: Jeff Hartline is paying off about $5,000 in debts incurred by a former employer
who failed to pay vendors.

Jeff Hartline was hired in 2007 to manage the shop for Worth Custom Woodworks, a new
custom cabinetry shop owned by two local custom home builders.
Jeff was never an owner of Worth Custom Woodworks
On behalf of the company's owners, Jeff hired the staff, directed the purchase of equip-
ment, set up the shop, established relationships with vendors and sold business for man-
ufacturing.
Worth Custom Woodworks opened as the housing sector began to decline, leading to a
drop in business for its owners home-building business and, of course, less demand for
cabinetry produced by Worth Custom Woodworks.
In 2008, Jeff went to work as a manufacturers rep for a company that supplied compon-
ents to cabinet shops. Jeffs former employers at Worth Custom Woodworks assured
him that he would be removed as a guarantor of any of the companys debts.
In summer 2009, more than a full year later, the owners of Worth Custom Woodworks
closed the business amid the broad decline in new home construction, and sold the com-
panys assets at auction.
Several months later, Jeff received calls from a couple of his former employers vendors
about unpaid bills. Jeff directed them to the principals to have the invoices paid. When
they were unable to contact the former owners of Worth Custom Woodworking, the
vendors sought payment from Hartline because, despite the assurances of his prior em-
ployers, he was still listed as a guarantor on the vendor files.
Although no fair-minded person would think it right that an employee would have to pay
off debts incurred by his employer, Jeff has stepped up to pay from personal funds about
$5,000 in debts to two vendors who were left high and dry by his former employer.

Hartline Associates

Summary: Jeff Hartline paid off all debts owed be a business he closed in 1994.

Jeff Hartline founded Hartline Associates in 1988 as a physician recruiting and consulting
firm.
The firm grew from two employees to an additional company with a total 16 employees
before competition, employees leaving to start their own competing businesses, and con-
solidation in hospital industry began to negatively impact the businesses revenues,
which came from placement fees.
Hartline closed the business in 1994.

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 During the wind-down of the business, and after its closure, Hartline stayed in contact
with firms, suppliers and vendors owed money by Hartline Associates, keeping them ap-
prised of the situation.
All debts owed by Hartline Associates were negotiated and paid and no one has contac-
ted Hartline regarding any of these long-ago-paid since.

Auto Accident

Summary: There is no outstanding debt or unresolved issue stemming from an auto acci-
dent involving Jeff Hartline in the early 1990s.

Jeff Hartline was involved in an auto accident in the early 1990s while driving a company
vehicle.
The employer had insurance, which covered the accident.
An initial default judgment in the case entered against Hartline, one of three defendants
initially named in a lawsuit related to the accident, but that default judgment against Hart-
line was set aside by agreed order on May 27, 1998 - as Davidson County General Ses-
sions court records verify.
When Jeff and his wife Melodie applied for a mortgage in 2000, the matter was brought to
his attention by the mortgage company because it appeared to be unresolved.
Jeff contacted the attorney and was assured that the matter had, in fact, been resolved.
The attorney wrote a letter to the mortgage company confirming that fact.
Jeff and his wife got the mortgage.

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