@Richard Moreno tough scenario!

I respect this tough topic being taken on and the input given - but geez - real estate isn't that simple. 

It's a tough place to find great help.

This was a very tough sentence to follow.

If CPS accepts the case, they will send CPS workers to check out the children and talk to their parents.

Not much multi family inventory on the market and if you don’t have trade skills or subcontractors it’s going to be tough to buy a good deal, hire out the work to a contractor, and still make a decent return if any at all.

Call it $200k with a $25k contingency included.If you're not pulling permits, using unlicensed workers and working in C-/D/F neighborhoods, you can probably cut that number in half.

Of course, the work can be tough.

I'm sorry your friend is having to go through this--it can be a very tough time.

Unless whoever you invested with made some sort of materially false or misleading statements, engaged in gross mismanagement or some sort of fraud, could be tough and probably wouldn't make much of a difference in a bankruptcy filing.Returns are generally not guaranteed and many firms did go bankrupt due to the wide reaching effects of COVID.