The house in the picture was actually owned by his ex wife, when they separated he convinced her not to sell them and to let him rent them instead – 5 of the 6 were apparently rented to drug dealers who grew and sold weed and he would take a cut in cash.
This one in particular was destroyed and looted numerous times by the residents there – he once told me he had already file over a dozen insurance claims against the property totaling over 250K according to him, normally we didn't deal with these homes, his right hand guy did personally for obvious reasons. He bragged that he was making more on insurance claims than rent.
Later when his wife died he bragged to us that he stole it back by convincing one of his friends to testify that there was a contract for the return of the homes upon her death which was a bicycle accident.
He came into the office and bragged that he told his best friend over and over agains the same lie until he believed it and testified as such even though no such agreement ever existed.