For instance, just recently. http://www.fox5ny.com/news/man-says-florida-villa-he-bought-at-government-auction-turned-out-to-be-a-foot-wide-piece-of-land

Willimantic has also interested me and from what I understand there are some decent developments in the planning phase with government grants or something like that.  

Check to make sure they are up to date and do some more digging through government websites to make sue you aren't missing anything.

Government

Here's one:https://library.municode.com/nc/asheville/codes/code_of_ordinancesIt's all the rules that govern development, and your civil engineer should know all that's pertinent to your type of project. 

It just means the government won't kick out another loan right ?

I know that I've heard of police/government seizing property for drug related activity. 

You'd just have to find out what it takes to get an operating permit, the fees, and the paperwork involved through your local government entity.

People used to sell you gold as the answer to when “civilization/governments collapse”.  

@Cameron Price As you mentioned, it's definitely too deep of a topic to condense the intent and decisions behind writing ~80k pages of the tax code but, to put it very simply...Tax dollars are one thing - the money the government collects from income taxes is used for Social Security, Medicare, national defense, transportation, eduction, and so on and so forth.