Complaint Review: Capture Those Travelers LLC - Vancouver WA

7.1 I have proof that I was solely responsible for the cash advance. And this is where I feel the grooming started. You started telling us that because our month of July wasn't as good as June's (the 64k month) and that businesses go under all the time in the first year and that's what happened to your previous business Tourist Trapper. You pulled me out into the garage in a hush hush manner because you didn't want to alarm the employees that our rough month of July was going to put us out of business. 

7.2 I'd like to add that you were in control of things that affected our month of July. It was the phones that would go down and nobody could make their sales calls. You were in charge of the phone account and the "phone guys" that would come out for hours and then bill Level Head. 

You were also in control of the internet which went down continuously, and because the phones were VoIP, again the phones would go down. Then it was no calls and no running payments if the sales people decided to use their personal phones to make calls.

7.3 I never asked you for permission. You told me you would do all the work of finding funding and asked for my personal info which I provided because I trusted you at the time. 

7.4 If I wasn't personally liable, then why would SnapAdvances be suing me and violating the automatic stay of bankruptcy? They wouldn't. But they are and you are the one that set everything up with them. All I did was sign a DocuSign and then do the phone call. This just REEKS of LONG CON. 

7.5 I don't seek sympathy. I seek justice and truth. I share my experiences with people to empower them. This has been my role for years. I've built a life with integrity and honesty. I have a community of people who will come stand with me. Beside me. And I will fight for justice. 

8.1 This is a bold face lie. Your lie is growing and growing. I don't understand why you think these kids of lies will be believed. We were living a nice life for a while, but after we signed the letter of intent we agreed to tighten our belts because our exit plan was supposed to be selling the business. I made personal sacrifices to reduce our living expenses. We're some of them extravagant? Maybe. I mean, I stopped getting my nails done, started coloring my own hair, we still had a hard time not going out to eat which was one of our defects, but I stopped ordering if we went through a drive through. (that part actually paid off because I lost my baby weight so thanks for that) But we always spoke openly about all of that. I would go and tell you how I was saving money by cutting costs. You act like it was a cold business relationship. But everything was friendly and as a collaboration. 

8.2 Ah-Ha!! You admit she was on the bank account!!! The only way she could get on there was SIGNING an operating agreement for 50/50! Woohooo I just love showing the world how pathetic you are. 

8.3 I will say it AGAIN... The money Jenny took for our protection wasn't hers to take. I signed a personal guarantee on money that was specified for tablets and recruiting more employees. Well, that's what you led me to believe. 

9. I honestly thought I updated the SOS business registry. But the operating agreement was still there. 

10. Hell yeah, we wanted to have nothing to do with you guys after you ripped me off. Why would we??? Oh, and cash reserve? You stole the money. Never spoke with us about any of the bs you are claiming here. I have receipts! Emails are best because Google can confirm they are legit. And texts work too because we have T-Mobile and they at least show who it was to and what time. Idk it might show what's in it too. 

And of course, you wanted to cut ties too. You didn't want to have to pay back the money I agreed to pay back. Remember the $83,000??? 

You seem to skim over the fact that you took that money leaving me with an astronomical payback of close to 7k a month. 

11.1 Lies. We paid rent July, August (you ripped us off August 30th), September AND October's. We couldn't afford to pay it after that. The payments to SnapAdvances was too much to carry while getting charge backs and having employees to pay. 

11.2 Yes, we started 4th screen after we saw that your theft would burn down the business. I still have a dream to have a business and be able to sell it someday. What? I don't get to do that because I made the mistake of trusting you? And I can AGAIN prove that I spent $100 for business license, and $100 to open an account. The revenue that was generated after that mostly went to the guy who gave us the idea. I get invoiced btw. 

11.3 I don't even know how you're coming up with these numbers. Do you not understand that I had to show bank statements to file bankruptcy?? If they request anything else, I will give it to them gladly. I'm not claiming to be perfect. I admit that when I quit working my full-time job that we were used to a lifestyle that included eating out too much and luxury things like shopping for makeup at Sephora or getting my nails done. I bought my kids too many things when we would go shopping etc. It really adds up. I will also say that through this it really has helped me to see that I can live on less. It sucks to have to tighten your belt after living a certain way, but we've done it and it started while we were still in business. 

11.4 You are right. I own this. We actually couldn't afford to pay the rent and payroll. When I filed for bankruptcy, I took a giant personal hit in order to protect our employees’ wages. I literally ran 2 blocks to a non-profit bankruptcy attorney and told him it was an emergency. I was honest 100%. He agreed it was an emergency and directed me to close the account, so I could pay people. I have bank records that show how much I took out to close it and then open another account so I could put the payroll money in there. ADP takes the money for payroll out of a bank account. So, for you to sit here and act like you are a selfless person and accuse me of being the con artist is gross. Your story doesn't add up. 

11.5 Yes, we agreed to pay the rent to get whatever we could get from you. At one point you tried to send me only 3k and I refused it. I had the bank send it back. Why? Because at that point I wanted all or none. But then after talking to SnapAdvances they told me to get whatever I could. It still doesn't excuse the fact that it was that singular event when you decided to take that money that burnt us down. There will NEVER EVER be a good reason to do what you did. 

12. You were running it into the ground by sending us sales people who would over promise to customers when they didn't even have to. You and Fargal were in charge of all of that. You'd come in with number and figures of how we need to do this or that, including BUY TABLETS which is why we got the cash advance. Stop pretending like you didn't do all of this yourselves. I have a signed operating agreement with Jenny that even states that her contributions were mentoring me on running a business and bookkeeping. She was teaching me. It's literally signed by her. Her way of saying, ok Dixie I'm worth more than you so that's why you should sign over 50%.

 I was wrong about it being weeks until they gave us some money back. It was 5 days later. It definitely felt like weeks. I apologize for the error. I went to get bank statements today and saw the date.

This is exactly the victim play I’m talking about.  Dixie intentionally neglected to post a screenshot of the text message was because it would’ve hurt her victim narrative.  I will attach a screenshot of the text message that was sent to Dixie and Brandon, because every post here must go through a step for adding attachments prior to posting.  There were no “threats” made as she claims. But hey, why be honest if it hurts your manipulative narrative, right Dixie? And now, Dixie is using this tactic to incite an online and misled witch hunt (see attached).

Also attached is a copy of the first page of the lease.  It was NOT under my name or Jenny’s name. It was under “Level Head LLC”.  Jenny just signed for it as a representative of the company which our agreement allowed her to do, but the attached lease very clearly states that the lease was under Level Head.  They left the landlord in a very bad position.

The other false claims in this posting have been explained and clarified in my rebuttal to Dixie’s original post.  It should also be noted that $45,000 (total of original withdrawal) minus $21,857.16 (lent to help Dixie and Brandon make payroll twice) is $23,142.84 (funds retained for Level Head’s future rent and furniture payments, and transferred back to Level Head’s account).  Therefore yes, I very much would classify that as the “bulk” of the withdrawn funds.

I will be filing a police report.  This is not right what she and her husband are doing.

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 Wow, you put a lot of work into that. I'm glad you numbered it. But first of all, I did include a screenshot. Idk where it went. I'll figure it out though. Don't you worry. So as far as your list...

1. Our business was new. I was working full time and bringing home $2,800 a month. That did go to bills and when you offered to give Brandon a job in return for helping us with our business we took the opportunity.

2. It was me & Brandon, and you met us down there. We were there because one of our breathalyzer kiosks were in that night club where they held the network event. You guys did not add it to your business. We decided to do it thru level Head and this was one of the reasons I signed over 50% of the business. (geezers do you really think you're creating a believable story?)

3. Oh wait, you're admitting it was part of level Head? But you GIFTED IT TO US? Are you drunk right now?

4. You are forgetting about the 6 months worth of bank statements that show "CAPTURE THOSE TRAVELERS" as withdrawing around $73k total. (I added it up.) Brett, stop thinking that you can spin this any other way. Bank statements don't lie.

5. Level Head was doing really good. At one point we brought in $64,298.43 (June 2018 and again IT SHOWS in the bank statements.) When we agreed to the 50/50, which did happen and I have a Hello Sign (just like DocuSign) signed by Jenny Belt, it was not because you told us anything like you were done funding us. The only thing you guys did was pay our employees then reimburse yourselves. It wasn't some money pit. Wtf is wrong with you?

6.1 Yes, you got us into an office space. I never left that out. And you openly admitted part of the money you stole from me that was supposed to be for tablets you were planning on paying the rent out for 6 months. But here's the thing, there's no way Level Head was going to last after taking a hit like that. That was you PROJECTING losses and recouping it at MY expense at the sum of $83k. 6.2 When we were talking about the 50/50 we went over the fact that you were expecting me to take a pay cut. You were paying Brandon 5k a month and I was making close to 3k. You wanted me to come on for an additional $500 a month which was insulting considering I had to quit my job to be able to put time and energy into the business which is called sweat equity and is worth money. I was NEVER shady about pulling money out of the account. I wrote myself checks. I was very transparent. Plus Jenny was on the checking account AND QuickBooks. She saw EVERYTHING. 6.3 The spiffs were off. And sometimes money that was left over from paying everyone out their bonuses was used for personal expenses. I won't lie about that. That still doesn't mean we were dishonest. You never even said anything about that. Probably because Brandon saw you do the same thing with the Capture Those Travelers spiff money. It didn't seem like a big deal. 6.4 Brandon posted a video of us on the helicopter ride on my birthday June 4th. It was one of the coolest presents I've ever received. You act like we were just flying all around town

 I filed a ripoff report yesterday. I received a text message at 4:39 am telling me to take it down or he will sue me for "liable". I'm hoping I can attach a screenshot. He claims he gave me "the bulk of the money back" which is a fabrication. Like I said in my original report, he did give back around 20k but it was too little too late. He never should have taken ANY. It wasn't his to take. That's not how you conduct business. Get someone to get a loan so you can recoup losses that haven't even happened? At my expense? Evil. Pure evil. Oh and yes I had to skip out on rent. It was under his name. And why wouldn't I after all of this? He locked us out of internet based services at one point to get back at us for publicly posting about the theft. Of course my PTSD tells me I'm going to show up at my office and be locked out. That's his pattern. We did leave some mess but not too bad. Nothing ruined. Nothing broken. We even paid $250 out of pocket to fix the plumbing because one of the employees flushed paper towels our last week in the office.

Dixie, you know that your narrative is untrue.  It’s unfortunate that you have chosen to spread lies, neglect relevant information, and play victim in an attempt to manipulate others into giving you sympathy.  Your statements are not only false; they are also egregious and malicious. However, if this is the platform you choose to have the facts exposed, then so be it.

These are the facts:

1)  In late 2017, Brandon Treat came to me to ask for help with his business, Levelhead LLC.  Brandon told me that Dixie (his wife) was the listed owner of Levelhead, but that he (Brandon) ran the day-to-day operations.  Brandon also told me that he and Dixie’s initial business plan had failed, they had almost zero revenue and were broke. Out of our then friendship and because Brandon told me that he had no money for Christmas, in December 2017 I agreed to hire Brandon at a very generous salary and paid him in advance.

2) In 2018, I attended a business networking event with Brandon (who was still my employee). At this event, I discovered the opportunity to sell advertising on tablets that could be placed at various venues such as bars and restaurants.  I decided to pursue this opportunity as an add-on to my current business within my company, Capture Those Travelers (CTT).

3) However, Brandon really wanted to own and operate his own company. Even though Brandon was my employee at the time, given our past friendship, I agreed to gift him ownership of the tablet business.  This is how Levelhead got its second start - by me gifting Dixie and Brandon ownership of the tablet business. I also gave Brandon rent-free office space so that he could hire employees and operate the LevelHead tablet business;  I did this to as a favor to give Brandon and Dixie the best chance of success.

4) Through CTT, I ended up investing $43,000 in Levelhead over a period of approximately six months; again, I did this based on Brandon’s promise that he would repay me when Levelhead became profitable.  As part of this agreement, Dixie and Brandon agreed to make my fiance, Jenny, a signer on the Levelhead bank account.

5) At no point did Brandon or Dixie put any of their own money into Levelhead, and after already giving Levelhead (Brandon and Dixie) over $43,000, I told Brandon that CTT couldn’t continue to fund Levelhead without a fair financial arrangement.  Because CTT provided 100% of the funding for LevelHead, Brandon agreed to merge the Levelhead business into a new entity that we would each own 50/50 (which never happened). Because LevelHead then appeared close to break-even, Brandon and I also agreed that any further financial support provided to Levelhead by CTT (i.e. funding payroll and other expenses) would need to be repaid on a strictly monthly basis from Levelhead’s monthly revenues.

6) As a result, CTT ended up providing over $20,000 in additional funding to Levelhead. We also assisted Dixie and Brandon in securing office space for Levelhead in downtown Portland. However, Brandon and Dixie and Levehead did not repay CTT this additional money within the timeframe promised.  After reviewing Level Head’s books, I discovered that Dixie and Brandon were taking money out of the business to fund personal expenses, far in excess of the agreed monthly amount that Brandon had represented to me. Further, I discovered that bank withdrawals (thousands of dollars) entered in the books as spiffs for salespeople had not in fact been paid out to employees. When I enquired, Dixie passed this off as a mistake. Additionally, I discovered that Brandon had posted several videos on social media bragging openly about how much money he was making, and showing off;  for example, he posted about private helicopter rides that he and Dixie were taking (see attachment). In short, the money trail evidenced that Dixie and Brandon were diverting money from Levelhead for non-business purposes. I also discovered other personal behavior (non-monetary) by Brandon that jeopardized that stability of the business.

7) After these discoveries, I informed Dixie and Brandon that Levelhead needed to seek alternative funding going forward. This is what led Levelhead to seek funding from Snap Advance - and Levelhead obtained this funding not as a loan but by selling its future receivables/revenue to Snap Advance.  Because CTT had the right to a first lien position on Levelhead’s assets, Levelhead needed CTT’s permission to obtain this funding and I was able to review the Snap Advance agreement. Contrary to Dixie’s claim, the SnapAdvance agreement exempts Dixie from any personal guarantee except in the case of fraud (such as diverting customers, revenues and cash to another entity).  See the attachment. Dixie is lying to gain sympathy and play victim.

8) Brandon and Dixie promised numerous times that CTT would be repaid.  In addition to the initial $43,000 funding, CTT provided an additional $21,857.16 to fund two months of Level Head’s payroll because Dixie and Brandon claimed that Levelhead did not have the funds to pay employees themselves.   However, after reviewing Level Head’s books, it became obvious that Levelhead’s finances were being grossly mismanaged and were being diverted for personal use. This was in violation of the terms of the Letter of Intent that I signed with Brandon/Dixie. For that reason, Jenny withdrew and set-aside $45,000; these funds were allocated to i) set up a reserve to insure that rent and furniture for Level Head’s Portland office was paid in accordance to their lease, and ii) reimburse CTT the $21,857.16 for the prior two payrolls that LevelHead had agreed repay within a 30 day period. Jenny was fully authorized to make that withdrawal in accordance with: (i) first, the initial agreement, whereby Jenny was an authorized signer on Levelhead’s bank account as a condition of CTT providing 100% of Levelhead’s initial funding ($43,000), and (ii) second, the Letter of Intent referenced by Dixie, whereby Levelhead received additional funding from CTT and was intended to be merged into a new entity.

9)  The operating agreement that Dixie is referring to was never honored by Dixie/Brandon; anyone can reference the Oregon SOS website to view the last annual report, filed August 31 2018, to see that there is only one name, Dixie Yagle, listed as the sole member/owner of the business.

10) After CTT set up a $45,000 cash reserve (for future rent payments and the $21,857.16 payroll expense), Dixie and Brandon informed me that they wanted to renege on the signed Letter of Intent and go their separate way.  Even though they had entered into a binding contract with CTT, I decided to respect their wishes. As a result, Jenny transferred the approximately $23k rent reserve back into the main Levelhead checking account; Jenny did this even though CTT was still owed $43,000 by LevelHead.  (Of course, this $43k was never repaid contrary to Brandon’s numerous promises.) Despite Dixie's claim that it took "weeks" to receive the $23k back, it actually only took a few days. Following that transfer, Levelhead had approximately $44,000 in cash available in its checking account to continue its business operations along with a very desirable office centrally located in downtown Portland.  This was a big difference from their situation eight to nine months earlier when they claimed they were flat broke.

11) Shortly thereafter, I received a call from Levelhead’s landlord informing me that Dixie and Brandon were not paying rent.  I also learned that Brandon and Dixie had set-up a new entity named 4th Screen Marketing, LLC. It appeared that Dixie and Brandon transferred the customer-base and future revenues of Levelhead to this new entity, 4th Screen Marketing. After reimbursing CTT for the $21k payroll advance, Level Head still had approximately $44,000 in available cash to move forward with its business operations, which was likely diverted for Brandon/Dixie’s personal expenses or transferred into their new company 4th Screen Marketing.  At the time that the $23k rent reserve was transferred back into Level Head’s main checking account, Brandon promised and agreed via text (attached) that he would make the rent/furniture payments specified in their lease on-time each month. Instead, he and Dixie skipped out on the rent and stole all of the furniture, equipment, phones, TV, and everything else that was in the office, leaving the landlord high and dry. So, if they stopped paying rent, what did they do with all the money?

12) Levelhead went out of business due to misconduct, mismanagement, inappropriate sales tactics and what appears to be a diversion of business funds and assets. Through Levelhead, Dixie and Brandon were taking customers’ money up-front and were racking up unfulfilled/unfulfillable orders (see examples of customer complaints attached).  By the time Levelhead closed, Dixie and Brandon had racked up approximately $200,000 in unfilled/unfulfillable orders.

13) Dixie had only a LIMITED personal guarantee on the merchant advance (which was a purchase of future revenues and not a loan), which is only triggered in the event of acts of fraud. This likely explains why Dixie felt it necessary to personally declare bankruptcy. Dixie is also conveniently leaving out the fact that, yes, while access to the Levelhead website and CRM was shut down, this was temporary because Level Head’s website and data was on a shared platform with CTT.  It was only a few hours in the very early morning while their website/intranet was down; these were up and running by 8:04 am, meaning Levelhead only lost barely over one hour of operating time. Contrary to Dixie’s claim, CTT is not, has not, nor is currently planning to, get into the "tablet" business. We are not offering or selling any advertising space on any charging stations or "tablets"; we are busy growing our core business. Dixie's claims that Levelhead was invoiced incorrectly by CTT is also false; I asked Dixie to provide any documentation of “errors and duplicate charges” she believed might have been made, but she was unable to do so. Per our signed, Letter of Intent, Levelhead still owes CTT $43,000; yet Dixie completely omitted this fact from her “I am the victim” narrative.

The narrative that Dixie is trying to push is completely false.  The money that was transferred as a reserve by Jenny was done in accordance with prior written agreements and as a precaution against two people who were being extremely fiscally and otherwise irresponsible.  As a non-owner, I did my best to ensure that Levelhead remained operational to ensure continuity for its employees, customers, and other stakeholders. Instead, DIXIE and BRANDON chose to divert money from Levelhead, end their business relationship with CTT, burn their landlord which included absconding with thousands of dollars of office furniture, and most egregiously, by making the approximate $44,000 in available cash that was in their bank account after our business separation disappear into thin air.