<prompt> Human: Posted first in Askreddit and was told to post here for better information.Backstory: In 2011 my family opened an estate sale company as a side project to earn everyone extra money. For those of you who arent familiar with estate sales, theyre basically glorified yard sales that take place throughout an entire home. So whenever someone needs to sell everything they own Moving out of state, loved one passed away, etc they contact us and we hold the sale for them. Within a year business was booming, we had sales every weekend and some weekends we would hold multiple sales. We never made a ton of money but we were able to pay our clients and staff.We opened up a store front to sell things out of for anyone who cant hold a sale in there home because of HOAs, no power, stuff like that. Business started to slow down so she came up with the idea of consignments. Which means we take select items people are trying to sell and put them in our shop until they are sold, we take our cut and give the client the rest.The problem is that the money flow has slowed down and our payroll has not and she keeps agreeing to do consignments. she wont say no to anyone, even if that means we have to take our box truck and staff over an hour away to pick up stuff. Any money that we make goes immediately to payroll and business expenses, and she continues to make up excuses to our clients as to why we havent paid them for the stuff we sell.This process has buried us deeper in debt then i ever could have imagined. Whenever our business partner tries to explain just how much trouble we are in, she gets pissed off and says she doesnt want to hear about it, or she responds with Do you like having a paycheck or not? Im scared that shes not going to realize just how much trouble we are in until its too late and everybody loses everything.Any advice or suggestions on how I can finally get through to her would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Reddit. And i apologize now for any grammatical or spelling errors.Assistant: 1. I hope to god your business is incorporated. Or LLCd.2. You can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink. Your mother sounds very stubborn and unwilling to face facts. Like someone running away from their problems. You cant do much in situations like that especially if youve repeatedly tried explaining things.3. If you own anything in this enterprise and its not incorporated, surrender your share now.Human: We are not incorporated but we are an LLC, and i do not own any shares, Im simply an employee. What would have been the benefits to being incorporated?Assistant: When your business goes bankrupt and the creditors come calling your mothers personal bank accounts and assets read: house, car, etc. are fair game. Anyone who is partner to the business is also personally liable.Incorporating or being an LLC provides substantial protection against this.Human: Any advice on how we can get back on track? the main thing I can think of is to cut out consignments and sell the box truck.  <response>: I dont know what your balance sheet looks like, or what your cash flow looks like. Giving you advice on what to do is like a doctor diagnosing a patient for cancer and prescribing treatment options without looking at test results or CT scans.Obviously stopping a practice which is causing you to lose money will cause you to stop losing money but the business is still insolvent and in arrears, and thats still a very serious problem.Some things I would suggest: We opened up a store front to sell things out of for anyone who cant hold a sale in there home because of HOAs, no power, stuff like that.Get rid of the physical presence and use eBay. Bam, you probably just saved at least 1k a month. 