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Robert S. Westermann (VSB No. 43294)

Brittany B. Falabella (VSB No. 80131)

HIRSCHLER FLEISCHER, P.C.

The Edgeworth Building

2100 East Cary Street

Post Office Box 500

Richmond, Virginia 23218-0500

Telephone: 804.771.9500

Facsimile: 804.644.0957

E-mail: rwestermann@hirschlerlaw.com

bfalabella@hirschlerlaw.com

Counsel for James E. Patterson, Jr. 

IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA

Richmond Division

IN RE:

ROBERT E. HICKS,

 DEBTOR.

Chapter 7

Case No. 18-30214-KLP

PETER J. BARRETT, IN HIS CAPACITY 

AS CHAPTER 7 TRUSTEE OF THE 

BANKRUPTCY ESTATE OF ROBERT E. 

HICKS,

 MOVANT,

V.

FRANKLIN AMERICAN MORTGAGE 

COMPANY, A TENNESSEE

CORPORATION, 

AND

CITIZENS AND FARMERS BANK,

 RESPONDENTS. 

Contested Matter

NOTICE OF (A) MOTION OF CHAPTER 7 TRUSEE FOR (I) AUTHORITY TO SELL 

PROPERTY OF THE ESTAETE AT PRIVATE SALE FREE AND CLEAR OF ALL 

LIENS, CLAIMS, RIGHTS, AND INTERESTS PURSUANT TO 11 U.S.C. § 363 AND 

BANKRUPTCY RULE 6004; (II) AUTHORITY RELATED TO CLOSING AND 

DISTRIBUTION OF SALE PROCEEDS; (III) APPROVAL OF COMPENSATION AND 

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EXPENSES OF TRUSTEE’S BROKER; AND (IV) RELATED RELIEF; AND 

(B) NOTICE OF HEARING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on November 20, 2019, Peter J. Barrett, in his capacity as 

the Chapter 7 Trustee (the “Trustee”) for the bankruptcy estate of Robert E. Hicks (the “Debtor”), 

by his undersigned counsel, filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District 

of Virginia, Richmond Division (the “Bankruptcy Court”), the Chapter 7 Trustee’s Motion for (I) 

Authority to Sell Property of the Estate at Private Sale Free and Clear of All Liens, Claims, Rights, 

and Interests Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 363 and Bankruptcy Rule 6004; (II) Authority Related to 

Closing and Distribution of Sale Proceeds; (III) Approval of Compensation and Expenses of 

Trustee’s Broker; and (IV) Related Relief (the “Motion”), whereby the Trustee requests authority 

to sell certain real property, not in the ordinary course of business, located at 3232 Grove Avenue, 

Richmond, Virginia 23221 and more specifically described as follows:

ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, together with all improvements thereon 

and appurtenances thereto belonging, known, numbered and designated as No. 

3232 Grove Avenue, lying and being in the City of Richmond, Virginia, and 

described as follows:

BEGINNING at the northeastern intersection of Grove Avenue and Tilden Street, 

thence running eastwardly along and fronting on the north line of Grove Avenue 

33 feet and extending back northwardly from said from between the east line of 

Tilden Street and a line parallel therewith 140 feet to an alley 12 feet wide, all as 

show on the plot of survey by A.G. Harocopos & Associates, P.C., Certified Land 

Surveyor and Consultant, dated April 29, 1992, attached to and made a part of the 

Deed in Deed Book 302, page 1875, and to which plat reference is hereby made for 

a more particular description of the property hereby conveyed. 

BEING the same real estate conveyed to Robert E. Hicks and April G. Straus from 

April G. Straus by Deed Dated January 12, 2015 and recorded simultaneously 

herewith. 

(the “Property”), to buyer Louise Hallberg McCool (the “Buyer”) at the sale price of 

$775,000.00.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Trustee is requesting that the Court

approve and authorize the payment of the following at closing of the Property on or before 

December 12, 2019:

a) The first Deed of Trust of Franklin American Mortgage Company in an 

anticipated agreed amount;

b) The second Deed of Trust of Citizens and Farmers Bank in an anticipated 

agreed amount; 

c) $15,000 to April Straus;

d) $46,500, which is 6% of the Purchase price ($23,250 to Blue Dog Realty 

(the “Trustee’s Broker”) and $23,250 to the Buyer’s agent at Long and 

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Foster Realtors) and $18,304 in reimbursement of actual, necessary 

expenses of the Trustee’s Broker; and 

e) Taxes and usual closing costs. 

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that a hearing will be held on December 11, 2019 

at 10:00 a.m. in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Fifth 

Floor, Courtroom 5100, 701 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that, pursuant to Federal Rule of Bankruptcy 

Procedure 6004(b) and Local Rule 9013-1(M), objections to this sale must be filed with the Court 

and served upon counsel for the Trustee on or before December 4, 2019. Absent the filing of a 

timely objection, the Court may deem any opposition waived at the hearing noticed above, and 

that a failure to file a response may result in the Court treating the matters as uncontested and 

entering an order granting the Motion prior to the hearing.

Dated: November 20, 2019 PETER J. BARRETT, TRUSTEE FOR THE 

ESTATE OF ROBERT E. HICKS

/s/ Robert S. Westermann

Robert S. Westermann (VSB No. 43294)

Brittany B. Falabella (VSB No. 80131)

HIRSCHLER FLEISCHER, P.C.

The Edgeworth Building

2100 East Cary Street

Post Office Box 500

Richmond, Virginia 23218-0500

Telephone: 804.771.9500

Facsimile: 804.644.0957

E-mail: rwestermann@hirschlerlaw.com

bfalabella@hirschlerlaw.com

Counsel for Peter J. Barrett, Chapter 7 Trustee of 

the Bankruptcy Estate of Robert E. Hicks

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Certificate of Service

I hereby certify that on this 20th day of November, 2019, a true and correct copy of the 

foregoing Notice was served using the Court’s ECF system, which thereby caused the document 

to be served electronically on all registered users of the ECF system that have filed notices of 

appearance in this matter. Further, I certify that on November 20, 2019, I sent a true and correct 

copy of the foregoing Notice to the parties listed on the Service List attached hereto and those 

listed below via first-class, U.S. mail.

Robert B. Van Arsdale, Esq.

Office of the United States Trustee

701 East Broad Street

Suite 434

Richmond, VA 23219

Michael Freeman, Esq.

Samuel I. White, P.C.

1804 Staples Mill Road

Richmond, VA 23230

Jennifer West, Esq.

Spotts Fain

411 East Franklin Street

Suite 600

Richmond, VA 23219

William Baldwin, Esq.

Meyer, Baldwin, Long & Moore, LLP

5600 Grove Avenue

Richmond, VA 23226

/s/ Robert S. Westermann 

Counsel for Peter J. Barrett, Chapter 7 

Trustee of the Bankruptcy Estate of Robert 

E. Hicks

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SERVICE LIST 

BMW Financial Services NA, 

LLC 

c/o AIS Portfolio Services, 

LP 

4515 N. Santa Fe Ave. 

Dept. APS 

Oklahoma City, OK 73118 

Barry Strickland & Company 

P.O. Box 9228 

Richmond, VA 23227 

Citizens & Farmers Bank 

c/o Spotts Fain PC 

411 E. Franklin Street 

Suite 600 

Richmond, VA 23219 

Horizon Forest Products, L.P. 

c/o W. Ashley Burgess, Esq. 

Sands Anderson PC 

1111 E. Main Street 

24th Floor 

Richmond, VA 23219 

Stonebridge Investment 

Company, LLC 

710 N. Hamilton Street 

Suite 300 

Richmond, VA 23221 

United States Bankruptcy 

Court 

701 E. Broad Street 

Richmond, VA 23219 

ABC Builders Supply 

Company 

13201 Ramblewood Drive 

Chester, VA 23836 

ABC Supply Company 

5800 Columbia Park Blvd. 

Hyattsville, MD 20785 

AJ Madison, Inc. 

c/o The Eliades Law Firm 

PLLC 

14000 N. Enon Church Road 

Chester, VA 23836 

AJ Madison, Inc. 

3605 13th Avenue 

Brooklyn, NY 11218 

American Express 

P.O. Box 1270 

Newark, NJ 07101 

American Express 

P.O. Box 650448 

Dallas, TX 75265 

American Express Bank, FSB 

c/o Becket and Lee LLP 

P.O. Box 3001 

Malvern, PA 19355 

Andrew S. Lerner 

Zwicker & Associates 

948 Clopper Road 

2

nd Floor 

Gaithersburg, MD 20878 

Andrew and Anne Goddard 

2220 Lakeview Ave. 

Richmond, VA 23220 

BMC East, LLC 

Richard M. Sissman, Esq. 

8133 Leesburg Pike 

Suite 400 

Tysons Corner, VA 22182 

BMC East, LLC 

Stock Building Supply, Inc. 

10589 Redoubt Road 

Manassas, VA 20110 

BMW Financial Services 

Customer Service Center 

P.O. Box 3608 

Dublin, OH 43016 

Best Tile Richmond 

2241 Central Avenue 

Schenectady, NY 12304 

Best Tile Richmond 

7490 West Broad Street 

Henrico, VA 23294 

Beth & Richard Kelly 

c/o S. Sadiq Gill 

1111 East Main Street 

Richmond, VA 23219 

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Beth and Richard Kelly 

1511 Hanover Avenue 

Richmond, VA 23220 

Beth and Richard Kelly 

Steven Biss, Esq. 

300 W. Main Street 

Suite 102 

Charlottesville, VA 22903 

Brock & Scott, PLLC 

Paul M. Heinmuller 

1315 Westbrook Plaza Drive 

Winston Salem, NC 27103 

Citizens & Farmers Bank 

Attn: Credit Administration 

P.O. Box 391 

West Point, VA 23181 

C&F Bank 

P.O. Box 790408 

Saint Louis, MO 63179 

Citizens Bank, N.A. 

Cenlar FSB 

BK Department 

425 Phillips Blvd. 

Ewing, NJ 08618 

Capital One 

P.O. Box 30281 

Salt Lake City, UT 84130 

Capital One Bank (USA), 

N.A. 

By American InfoSource LP 

as agent 

P.O. Box 71083 

Charlotte, NC 28272 

Capital Waste Services 

938 E. 4th Street 

Richmond, VA 23224 

Capital Waste Services 

c/o T. Andrew Lingle 

9211 Forest Hill Ave. 

Suite 201 

Richmond, VA 23235 

Citizens & Farmers Bank 

Jennifer West, Esq. 

411 E. Franklin Street 

Suite 600 

Richmond, VA 23219 

Commonwealth of Virginia 

Department of Taxation 

P.O. Box 2156 

Richmond, VA 23218 

Dal Tile Distribution, Inc. 

7834 CF Hawn Frwy 

Dallas, TX 75217 

Daltile 

Lockbox #9237 

P.O. Box 8500 

Philadelphia, PA 19178 

Euler Hermes 

800 Red Brook Blvd. 

Suite 400 C 

Owings Mill, MD 21117 

Franklin American Mortgage 

224 N. Main Street 

Moorefield, WV 26836 

Henrico Doctor’s Hospital 

P.O. Box 740760 

Cincinnati, OH 45274 

Henrico Doctor’s Hospital 

Resurgent Capital Services 

P.O. Box 1927 

Greenville, SC 29602 

Horizon Forest Products LP 

Credit Department 

4800 Eubank Road 

Henrico, VA 23231 

Horizon Forest Products, LP 

c/o W. Ashley Burgess, Esq. 

Sands Anderson PC 

P.O. Box 1998 

1111 E. Main Street, 24th Fl. 

Richmond, VA 23219 

IRS 

P.O. Box 7346 

Philadelphia, PA 19101 

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Joseph Layman 

c/o Stephen C. Conte 

300 W. Main Street 

Richmond, VA 23220 

MYKY, LLC 

c/o Caudle and Caudle PC 

3123 W. Broad Street 

Richmond, VA 23230 

Mark K. Brown 

454 Pewter Ct. 

#301 

Charlottesville, VA 22911 

Mark K. Brown 

c/o David Oberg 

917 E. Jefferson Street 

Charlottesville, VA 22902 

Matthew F. Bellinger 

22228 Maplewood Ave. 

Richmond, VA 23220 

Mayer Electric Supply 

P.O. Box 1328 

Birmingham, AL 35201 

Mayer Electric Supply 

Company, Inc. 

c/o Eugene W. Shannon, Esq. 

426 E. Freemason Street 

Suite 200 

Norfolk, VA 23510 

McGuireWoods LLP 

Attn: Accounts Receivable 

800 E. Canal Street 

Richmond, VA 23219 

Michael Layman 

c/o Stephen C. Conte 

300 W. Main Street 

Richmond, VA 23220 

NPAS 

P.O. Box 99400 

Louisville, KY 40269 

Navigant Credit Union 

1005 Douglas Pike 

Smithfield, RI 02917 

Noland Company 

2101 Staples Mill Road 

Richmond, VA 23230 

Noland Company 

c/o Derrick Rosser 

211-A England Street 

Ashland, VA 23005 

RJT Industries 

14893 Persistence Drive 

Woodbridge, VA 22191 

Rhonda B. Lee 

c/o David G. Browne 

Spiro & Browne PLC 

6802 Paragon Place 

Suite 410 

Richmond, VA 23230 

Rhonda E. Lee 

c/o John H. Taylor 

1900 One James Center 

Richmond, VA 23219 

Roofing and Supplies, Inc. 

2503 Hull Street 

Richmond, VA 23224 

Shades of Light LLC 

4924 W. Broad Street 

Richmond, VA 23230 

Sherwin Williams Company 

Account Receivables Dept. 

2313 E. Cary Street 

Richmond, VA 23223 

Solodar & Solodar 

11504 Allecingie Parkway 

Richmond, VA 23235 

Stephen C. Conte 

300 W. Main Street 

Richmond, VA 23220 

Stonebridge Investments 

c/o Scott Stolte 

710 N. Hamilton Street 

#300 

Richmond, VA 23221 

The Sherwin-Williams 

Company 

c/o Solodar & Solodar 

4825 Radford Ave. 

Suite 201 

Richmond, VA 23230 

Thos Somerville Co. 

Richmond Warehouse 

2120 Maywill Street 

Richmond, VA 23230 

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Triton Stone 

10471 Washington Highway 

Glen Allen, VA 23059 

US Bank 

P.O. Box 5229 

Cincinnati, OH 45201 

U.S. Trustee 

701 E. Broad Street 

Suite 4304 

Richmond, VA 23219 

VAMAC 

4201 Jacque Street 

Richmond, VA 23230 

VAMAC Inc. 

P.O. Box 11225 

Richmond, VA 23230 

Virginia Department of Tax 

P.O. Box 2369 

Richmond, VA 23218 

Wells Fargo Bank: Small 

Business Lending Division 

P.O. Box 29482 

Phoenix, AZ 85038 

Wells Fargo 

P.O. Box 77053 

Minneapolis, MN 55480 

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 

Wells Fargo Card Services 

P.O. Box 10438 

Des Moines, IA 50306 

Beth Kelly 

c/o Steven S. Biss, Esq. 

300 W. Main Street 

Suite 102 

Charlottesville, VA 22903 

John P. Fitzgerald, III 

Office of the U.S. Trustee 

Region 4-R 

701 E. Broad Street 

Suite 4304 

Richmond, VA 23219 

Joseph Layman 

LeClairRyan, P.C. 

c/o Donna J. Hall, Esq. 

999 Waterside Drive 

Suite 2100 

Norfolk, VA 23510 

Michael Layman 

LeClairRyan, P.C. 

c/o Donna J. Hall, Esq. 

999 Waterside Drive 

Suite 2100 

Norfolk, VA 23510 

Peter J. Barrett 

Kutak Rock LLP 

901 E. Byrd Street 

Suite 1000 

Richmond, VA 23219 

Rhonda Lee 

c/o Spiro & Browne PLC 

6802 Paragon Place 

Suite 410 

Richmond, VA 23230 

Richard Kelly 

c/o Steven S. Biss, Esq. 

300 W. Main Street 

Suite 102 

Charlottesville, VA 22903 

Robert A. Canfield 

Canfield, Wells & Kruck, 

LLP 

4124 E. Parham Road 

Henrico, VA 23228 

Robert E. Hicks 

3232 Grove Avenue 

Richmond, VA 23221 

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