How would you cope? You just spent $100K defending your estate from California's DIR and you lost.

Long convoluted story. So much so that it took 2 weeks for 6 lawyers and a judge to go through it all. The judge ruled that the DIR (Department of Internal Relations) wins and will force the selling of our apartment building in China Town San Francisco worth $5million. After the selling of the property and outstanding mortgage will be paid off first then the DIR gets half and my wife and I get half of what’s left.

I’m sick and suffering because I can’t believe we lost. We had a great defense. Our attorneys and appraisal witness were superb. I wonder if the judge was even listening. Or perhaps California needs money so bad that they’ve stooped to conspiracy tactics?

My wife has had enough but the idea of appeal lingers before me. What’s another $100K to get another chance to deprive the DIR vultures their stolen money.

What would you do to get through a mess like this?