And I know that the tourism infrastructure (restaurants , activities) has some catching up to do aside from the new casino that is opening up.

Utilities start-up feesSevier County Electric will charge you a deposit.

Here in California, that essentially means that the buyers earnest money deposit wouldn’t be at risk regardless of what they did.

Earnest money deposits are often required to secure a purchase agreement, signaling a buyer's serious intent to sellers.

I've seen cases where the LP backed out of the deal at the last minute, not only leaving the operator at the closing table without the capital, but causing the sponsor to lose their earnest money deposit. 

Don't forget there is more than the downpayment, you have closing costs, holding costs, deposit to a contractor to start work. 

If  you are in the 20% range, you are better off going to the casino and putting all of your money on black and seeing what happnes.Since you are out of the area properly calculating cash on cash returns can be difficult because you have variable expenses to calculate. 

The state doesn’t have rent control laws, but landlords are prohibited from collecting more than one month’s rent for security deposits.

She is telling me I have to put a honest deposit of $1000 down for every offer I make.

You can charge pet rent, a pet deposit, or both.