The legal fight over the lease used at the Vivos xPoint survivalist bunker complex south of Edgemont will continue after the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled the lease is not illegal simply because it was modified after being signed according to reporting from South Dakota News Watch.
The court overturned a 2025 circuit court ruling that had invalidated the lease and sent the case back for further proceedings. Attorney Matthew Hays McCoy, representing evicted tenant Daniel Sindorf, said other legal arguments remain and that a $17 million class‑action lawsuit challenging the lease can still proceed.
Sindorf was evicted after a 2023 incident involving a firearm. Vivos cited a lease addendum banning weapon brandishing, which the court ruled was reasonably and fairly applied.
The Vivos xPoint complex, a former military munitions site with 575 leased bunkers, has been the subject of multiple lawsuits and tenant complaints.
Comments