Belize is a British protectorate, follows British common law, English is the official language, and their currency is pegged to the dollar.

But through my experience of being a landlord, a lender, a forex investor and with time I have today because we now have kids; I would have to say I would take the $1MM and invest in trading in forex aka currency.  

@Logan Hicks Lot's of spread there but I'm not seeing much in the way of passive income return with all the currency volatility a and confusion in the Russian and Chinese economy.

We want to take advantage of the prices there now and especially the whole Pound to Euro currency at the minute.

Managing the currency risk alone is a task in itself.

Find out from YOUR bank how this check was cleared - whether as hard cash (currency handed to recipient), or deposited as cash (this withdraws the funds from your account immediately but no currency is handed to the person), or just a deposit of a check.

For ex..

For ex, a partner of mine bought a 12-unit property from an ex NBA player who was playing in South America.

We have employment and investment income in USD and other foreign currencies and US and other foreign stocks and properties we could pledge in addition to the subject Polish property we would want to acquire.

It is for ex-convicts.