The Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act and the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 give Federal agents the ability to seize assets through both civil and criminal procedures. The civil provisions present many opportunities to limit the individual rights related to search and seizure, the right to counsel, the right to jury trial, and the proportionality of punishment. Real property involves special problems, because drug transactions or other illegal activity anywhere on a property justifies the seizure of the entire property. Therefore, real property lienholders, owners, lessors, and lessees must take special care to investigate those they allow on their property and to avoid deliberately ignoring signs of illegal activity. Otherwise, their real property interests could become subject to forfeiture. Footnotes