Cram down is available on your investment, i.e. non personal, properties which can adjust your mortgage on the investment properties to market value. There is alot more involved though.
Serve everybody. To reopen the case, all interested parties must be served, Trustee, Creditors, etc. Judge does not need to be served. Judge will get copy that's filed.
You should expect to spend no less than 15,000 dollars for a chapter 11 bankruptcy in riverside county. This is well worth it if you are in fact a proper candidate for chapter 11 bankruptcy