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7 Reasons Why Real Estate Investment Property Values Drop
 James R Kobzeff 
Money, of course, is the primary motive for real estate investing. Wealth is the essential reasonwhy people invest in real estate, and typically the first thing people think of when they consider owning investment real estate is profitability.One of the advantages of owning income-producing property is that income generated from rentcan be quite considerable if a property is bought and managed correctly. If a real estate investor doesn't overpay for a property, keeps expenses down, the apartments rented, and the building wellmaintained, a real estate investment can generally make the investor money, even while theinvestor sleeps! Notwithstanding, there are there factors that can cause a real estate investment to lose value.Moreover, not unlike a perfect storm of colliding fronts, it can have a drastic effect upon a rentalincome property's ability to generate profitability, despite the investor's efforts.Okay, let's look at undoubtedly the 7 worst contributors to the deterioration of rental propertyvalue.
1. Neighborhood Decline
The community surrounding the income property can change in a variety of ways that adverselyaffect your real estate income property. Increasing vacancy, for instance, can lead to reduced rents,which in turn means reduced maintenance causing building deterioration, in turn causing the wholeneighborhood to slip into decline and therein triggering a domino effect that simply compounds the problem. The nearby construction of facilities such as sewer treatment plants and airports will alsolikely have an adverse effect on the area. Also, perhaps more subtle and slower in coming, is adecline due to increased crime, perhaps resulting from an adjoining neighborhood spill over.
2. Impact of Adverse Infrastructure
The impact of being directly under the flight path of aircraft, for example, can have a negativeimpact on a property's ability to attract (or keep) tenants. Likewise, construction of a major highway or intersection can limit access to the property, and cause noise and dirt by theconstruction to drive tenants out. Perhaps the result may be an increase in your investment realestate value, but construction can take up to a year or more and during that time you can expectyour real estate investment value to drop.
©2009 James R Kobzeff. All rights reserved.
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