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his is a really good time to be selling underground bunkers.
The COVID-19 pandemic, civil unrest in major U.S. cities, and concern about
what else may be coming have combined to create a tremendous amount of demand
for “survival real estate”.
In all my years of writing, I have never seen
anything like this. I have been hearing from so many people that suddenly
feel a great urgency to prepare for the total collapse of society, and quite a
few of them have either recently relocated or plan to do so in the near
future. For some, moving entirely out of the country seems like the best
option, but for most others the goal is to find a way to survive the coming
chaos here in the United States.
Of course a lot of people are still tied to major population
centers by their jobs, and for a lot of those individuals a “survival bunker”
in a remote location that they can bug out to if things get crazy enough is an
attractive option.
In South Dakota, one company has established the “largest survival
community on Earth”, and the New
York Post recently
interviewed a 69-year-old man named Tom Soulsby that purchased one of the very
first underground bunkers in that community…
Tom Soulsby, 69, and his wife, Mary, were one of the first to buy
a bunker at Vivos xPoint — the self-proclaimed “largest survival community on
Earth” — near the South Dakota town of Edgemont. In 2017, he made a $25,000
down payment and signed a 99-year land lease (with fees of $1,000 per year) to
occupy an elliptical-shaped, 2,200 square-foot
underground concrete bunker once
used as a military fortress during World War II to store weapons and
ammunition.
For a while there, sales were not happening too briskly. But
then 2020 happened, and at this point sales of underground bunkers at Vivos
xPoint are “up over
600 percent”…
When Soulsby signed on the dotted line, he was one of a handful of
new owners. But in 2020, Vivos xPoint has become hotly sought-after real
estate. The price has jumped to $35,000, says Robert Vicino, the California
developer and CEO of the Vivos Group, which launched in 2008, and bunker sales
are “up over 600 percent.”
I really admire what they are trying to do, and I am sure that
having major news stories done about your community helps sales, but it will
also make the community a target when things really do hit the fan.
Another project that has been making a lot of headlines is “the
Survival Condo” in central Kansas. It is completely underground, and it
was originally designed to
survive a nuclear war…
The Survival Condo has a lot of the hallmarks of your standard
fallout shelter. It’s underground (200 feet underground, in the middle of rural
Kansas, 200 miles from Kansas City). It was built during the Cold War (as a
nuclear missile launch facility). It’s also been retrofitted with
nine-foot-thick reinforced concrete walls designed to survive everything from
tornadoes to 12-kiloton nuclear warheads dropping half a mile away.
This converted nuclear silo has been described as an “underground
skyscraper”, and this is how author Bradley Garrett described his visit
to “Level
11”…
On level 11 of the Survival Condo, about 50 metres underground,
Hall and I visit a 1,800 sq ft home. I have had the same feeling as walking
into a bedroom in a hotel chain. The apartment has never been used. It has a
Navajo print rug, a cushy white sofa set and a stone electric fireplace with a
flat panel TV over it. A marble countertop extends to a bar separating the
living room from the kitchen, which is filled with high-end appliances.
It sounds quite lovely, but the units are not cheap.
Half-floor apartments here are $1.5m (£1.2m); full-floor
apartments $3m (£2.4m); and a two-level, 3,600 sq ft penthouse has sold for
$4.5m (£3.6m). In total, 57 people will be living in 12 apartments, each paying
an additional $5,000 (£4,000) a month in residents’ association fees. One
apartment, bought with cash, is designed to feel like a log cabin, with a loft
looking down on a fake fireplace flanked by a six-screen display of a
snow-capped mountain range.
The company selling the units insists that the location is super
secret, but if that is actually the case it probably is not a good idea to let
reporters roam around inside the facility with a
film crew.
In any event, only the ultra-wealthy will get to live there,
because most Americans could never even dream of being able to afford such
an elaborate bug out location.
But all of us should be doing what we can to get prepared for the
hard years that are ahead, because things are about to get really,
really crazy.
We live in truly unprecedented times, and what we have experienced
so far is just the beginning.
As global events spiral out of control, many among the elite will
be heading for their underground bunkers, and some are
already there…
As coronavirus infections tore across the U.S. in early March, a
Silicon Valley executive called the survival shelter manufacturer Rising S Co.
He wanted to know how to open the secret door to his multimillion-dollar
bunker 11 feet underground in New Zealand.
The tech chief had never used the bunker and couldn’t remember
how to unlock it, said Gary Lynch, general manager of Texas-based Rising S Co.
“He wanted to verify the combination for the door and was asking questions
about the power and the hot water heater and whether he needed to take extra
water or air filters,” Lynch said. The businessman runs a company in the
Bay Area but lives in New York, which was fast becoming the world’s
coronavirus epicenter.
It sure must be nice to have a luxury underground bunker in New
Zealand.
Unfortunately, most Americans are going to have to deal with
whatever is ahead right where they are currently located.
But whether you have an underground bunker or not, the truth is
that challenging times are coming for all of us, and no amount of money is
going to change that.
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4 comments:
Can't afford one of these fancy shelters but we do have a country bug-out spot as you've written about previously - thank God!
That's not the only thing booming. Stopped at our favorite sporting goods store looking for particular pistol & some 9mm ammo-all gone! What does that tell you?
Gimme shelter...Rolling Stones and now many Americans!~
In ref to your post last week about gold n silver...
Gold and silver markets enter this week’s trading with bigger price tags. Despite a pullback on Friday, gold prices posted a fresh new all-time weekly high while silver delivered another monster gain.
Although precious metals are rallying this morning, some indicators suggest a pullback may be on the near-term horizon.
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