I Won A Small Claims Case Against My Former Landlord And Now The Guy Is Saying He's Filing For Bankruptcy

For context, I'm in Los Angeles and this was a straightforward case over a security deposit. The judgement total is around $7000 and the defendants's already used up his appeal. I reached out to the landlord to see if he was going to pay willingly, and he texted back that he will be filing for bankruptcy.

This process has been long and annoying and throughout it all, the landlord has proven himself to be a weasel. Every hearing he asks for (and is denied) extensions. He's lied to the judge multiple times, in easily proven ways. He lied about being a victim of the Palisade fires in our last hearing and the judge called him out on it.

All of this to say, I would not put it passed him to lie about filing for bankruptcy to avoid paying. I don't know most of his assets, but he does have the rental property I was living at (currently valued at $725,000 on Zillow), a property he inherited. Unless he has hundreds of thousands of dollars in mored debt, I just can't see logical reasoning behind bankruptcy when you would lose a house of that value. Despite the red flags, I do want to protect my claim incase he isn't lying this time, especially since I know my debt will be the last one paid after whatever assets he has is sold off, if at all.

So I guess my question is, are there ways to protect my debt from being erased if he does go down this path? Would a lien on his property survive a bankruptcy? I've also thought about trying to call his bluff by texting something along the lines of 'I'll let the current tenants know so they have time to look for a new place', but I don't know if I'd be entering legally grey waters with something like that.