{"id":252068,"date":"2026-04-16T04:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252068\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T04:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:58:17","slug":"east-texas-attorney-talks-vendor-recourse-following-painted-tree-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/252068\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas attorney talks vendor recourse following Painted Tree closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Some East Texas vendors are trying to figure out what to do next after Painted Tree Boutique stores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2026\/04\/15\/shop-owners-detail-vacating-painted-trees-boutiques-following-company-closing\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2026\/04\/15\/shop-owners-detail-vacating-painted-trees-boutiques-following-company-closing\/\">abruptly shut down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Justin Roberts, attorney at Roberts &amp; Roberts, said vendors should be able to get product sales from April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe problem with this is that I\u2019m sure there are provisions in the contract about how quickly they should get paid, but the store seems like it\u2019s in a bad state right now so they may not follow through on that commitment to pay the vendors what they\u2019re owed timely,\u201d Roberts said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sarah Yagel has around $20,000 worth of skin care products in Painted Tree stores across the country, including in Tyler and Salt Lake City, Utah. Over the next few days, Yagel said she plans on traveling hundreds of miles to round up all of her merchandise from those locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI have five locations, so that was a large amount of sales for me, so it\u2019s a big hit for my business,\u201d Yagel said. \u201cGiving us nine days to get our stuff out is really frustrating.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Yagel mentioned she is searching for somewhere else to sell her products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In an email to vendors Painted Tree said in part they know they \u201chave invested significant time, energy, and resources into building your spaces at Painted Tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey should have prepared people a little better,\u201d said Mike Guerra, a vendor at Painted Tree. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe store needs to pay these vendors,\u201d Roberts added. \u201cThe vendors could go to court if they don\u2019t get paid what they\u2019re owed.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Previous: <\/p>\n<p>Shop owners detail vacating of Painted Trees Boutiques following company closing<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Some East Texas vendors are trying to figure out what to do next after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-252068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}