Generally, your home and qualified retirement accounts are protected from creditors, bankruptcy, and civil lawsuits.

Their credit score is 508 and has a bankruptcy listed.

Bankruptcy is for creditors, court judgments are another matter.

I'm an agent that has a close connection to the trustee assigned to many bankruptcy and foreclosure properties in Nashville How did you finance this deal?

I'm one of the MACK victims, they haven't paid me a penny since March and I was slow to learn about their bankruptcy and legal troubles.  

I was thinking that since he doesn't want to go the bankruptcy route, and doesn't have anything in collections, that maybe talking with a non-profit credit counselor (any recommendations from the group?)

That would give us enough time to refinance the property out of their name, and into ours.The seller also should have as clear language as possible how to foreclosure on us if we fail to hold up the bargain.To protect us, we want to be very clear that they will not pursue Bankruptcy protection as that will negatively affect our model.

Hello BP community,I have a tenant who filed for Chap 13 bankruptcy after I filed for eviction.

Is it possible to start investing in real estate while in bankruptcy?

Here's how I did it:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/55/topics/692382-from-bankruptcy-to-1-000-units-part-2-rising-from-the-ruinsHaving said that, you need to do BOTH.