The least you should have is an umbrella policy that will cover any litigation you may encounter.  

If you want a clear answer about what your legal options are, you would need to reach out to a real estate litigation attorney and ask.

I would never recommend someone invest in California unless they're very experienced because it is the most heavily regulated, heavily litigated place in the country, maybe the world.

With a one man show brokerage there is nobody to call except the State Board but that's a long process and the transaction is lost or goes into litigation.80% of the deals get done by 20% of the agents and you can ask any of the top 20% what they think of the other 80%.

Then you can consider a civil suit to adjudicate the return of the funds.

There was a miscommunication between the civil engineer, builder and city, and originally they were going to let me build the house before partitioning the lot but now they're making me do it now.

For example anything behind walls are mostly change orders (ie mold), most newbies miss these kinds of issues and it will arise; now we are here to do a job, in and out, as quickly as possible, we don’t have time to go to litigation or argument because they didn’t know that those are extras, and even more so they don’t have the budget for it.On a different note, ask them to buy J Scotts book, it’s a great start.

(Auto is where the most litigation happens anyway) To go to 2 million it was $650I saw that 5 mill was about $1200 a year. 

This doesn't consider civil liabilities, messing up someone's financial life.

We have two locals that are facing charges and or civil fines for "wholesaling".