Trying to see if all the investments you were using to grow your money went up in flames would you still be well off. 

Her whole apartment went up in flames.

Before you know it he went down in flames, lost everything and now spends his days mining uranium in a gulag somewhere in Siberia.

I will be following closely in the months & years ahead, hoping to see Zurixx go down in flames, and maybe just maybe some of the students will see some sort of class action settlement. 

IF you ever go down in flames, lender will go after your home with 30% equity before they go after mine with 0% equity.

Many have gone down in flames trying to get too big too fast.

Poaching is definitely off the table unless it's from a park that is going down in flames.  

@Sarah JonesYou've inflamed some passions on this thread. 

If your friend can't do what he was supposed to do to this point, and he's behind by $5K, and then goes into debt another 2.5K to you, and that's just to get him to the next draw - and he's still got $36K in draws to go.......I just see this imploding.So, as someone else mentioned, if you're willing to give your friend the $5K to help him try to make this work, with no expectation of getting it back, that would be a really nice thing to do.On the other hand, if it goes down in flames and now he's lost the $5K & the $2.5K extra promised to a friend, it seems to me he'll feel terrible about that and that might not be doing him any favors either.I tend to only do deals with friends where I'm guaranteed to get what I need out of the deal, and in those instances, I'm very generous. 

I'd send a thank-you cake to my tenant for doing so - they had the forethought to protect the building after seeing their worldly possessions go up in flames.