It's all a gamble but I like my odds in real-estate and not with the casino. 

We diversify our treasury so as the world progresses we are looking forward to integrating more of our treasury with our active RE operations. 

In lieu of huge down payments that only protect one side I would suggest buying a US Treasury.

It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

He paid someone to print stuff like this https://www.gamblingafrica.com/indepth/history-of-online-casino-gambling.asp on a fancy paper and made a booklet out of it.

https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/...

In late March 2020, everyone in Congress, at the Fed, and at the Treasury Department, were reciting the exact same thing, in unison, over and over again, like a religious incantation, when they came up with the policy-set that is mostly still in effect:"2008, never again. 2008, never again. 2008, never again."

Also if you know the census tract # of the property, then there is an IRS or US Treasury web site which has a list of all the OZ census tracts - it's downloadable into a spreadsheet. 

I'd look at a couple of places...Gainesville due to proximity to the casinos where there is very little housing...and maybe Commerce where there is growing university.   

Go to the local pony track or closest casino to his house and you will see him there with defeated eyes.I fell for the bs pitch on giving more money to get my original money back once as well, won't ever happen again!