It's been a complicated year for Harden Furniture, with their business' assets being sold not once, but twice. 

It started at the end of January, when the company was purchased by Big Shoulders Capital LLC during an Article 9 Auction, allowing for financial restructuring. A new business plan was put into place and Maverick One Leasing Company LLC was created to acquire the business, with Big Shoulders acting as their primary lender. About a month later, Big Shoulders declared a technical default against Maverick One Leasing. 

"The alleged default, I should say, was technical in nature and had largely to do with not having provided information concerning insurance coverage," said Robert Rock, the attorney representing Maverick One Leasing Company LLC. 

Because of the default, Big Shoulders scheduled to sell the property in June. In an effort to keep that sale from happening, Maverick One Leasing filed a petition for chapter 11 bankruptcy, but they filed it just a little too late. 

"The sale was scheduled by the secured creditor for, I want to say, 11:00 and we didn't get the petition filed until 12:20 or something like that. We missed it by less than two hours," said Rock. 

However, if the sale was not completed before they submitted their petition, Rock said the sale would be void and they could still have control over the assets. 

"We're conducting our own examination and investigation to try and determine the date of the sale and to make sure that all the proprieties, all of the procedures and protections were observed," said Rock. 

Rock said he does not know who the assets were sold to in the June sale. A mystery they hope to solve through their investigation. 

"Maverick One Leasing Company LLC does want to keep those assets and to operate Harden Furniture," he said. 

An outcome that would be welcomed by the more than 100 Harden Furniture employees who have since lost their jobs.