Then a virus that started in Nov Dec of 2019 was seen as an opportunity to collapse a legacy, inflated numbers were pushed onto the public to force unconstitutional closing of schools, businesses and travel. 

As stated, if the SHTF, and the dollar really did collapse, ETFs (GLD)/paper gold is not where you want to be.

Similarly, if our property price collapsed, we would not expect the lender to take the loss.

That property could now be worth $40,000 because the neighborhood collapsed.

I was doing BPOs in 2010 and was told the housing collapse would last for 20 years. 

If the main line has not collapsed or is not too disjointed, an epoxy sleeve main drain lining will permanently solve the problem. 

Might be a hurricane (one in the 1980s, another in the 1990s), or a 911 type incident, or economic collapse like 2008, or the tsunami in Japan (a large percentage of our visitors are Japanese)...

Liability is a big thing that a lot of people take lightly, but it is VERY important (I recently read an article about a deck failure where people were severely injured when a 2nd story deck collapsed.)

If the drain pipe has collapsed on itself then this might not be feasible (although it might be possible to just excavate where the collapse is and tie in the intact pipe with a replacement section using fernco fittings).

The per sign fines they impose will collapse your empire before it begins.