Vivos xPoint, sited on a former Army munitions depot in South Dakota, markets converted Cold War-era bunkers as long-term survival leases amid rising demand for private resilience infrastructure. Primary records from South Dakota circuit court filings in Streeter v. Vivos reveal management-resident conflicts over post-lease rule changes and incomplete infrastructure, including septic failures documented in county health inspections. The Wall Street Journal reporting, echoed by ZeroHedge, centers interpersonal disputes yet understates linkages to federal policy shifts: post-2019 pandemic guidance from FEMA's National Response Framework encouraged private-sector continuity planning, accelerating bunker commercialization without corresponding oversight standards. A second primary source, 2022 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assessments of former munitions sites, notes persistent environmental liabilities at xPoint's location that marketing materials omit. Multiple resident perspectives, captured in class-action complaints, emphasize isolation benefits for nuclear or pandemic scenarios, while Vivos counters that litigation stems from a minority. This pattern parallels earlier survivalist enclaves in the 1990s, where external-threat framing masked internal governance shortfalls. Unexamined is how cultural anxiety, amplified by documented supply-chain disruptions in 2021 congressional hearings, fuels an economy now valued in billions yet lacking uniform consumer protections.