please learn to know if you don't know yet. Don't buy a house which is too near to the future "Public Use" or things like that. Most of times, you don't make money, but lose money if government asks you to move and you have to move because it is law.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-23-scotus-property_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-23-scotus-property_x.htm