The fourplexes I've looked at tend to have a rough feel to them : driveways/parking areas have deteriorated (or no) paving.

He basically got it for free and had been renting it out since then but did shoddy work on it and let it deteriorate.

Do to being far away from alternative housing solutions you may also experience less property deterioration and abandonment issues.  

You'll also want to ensure you have a good property manager to look after the upkeep of the property if you are not there to notice anything deteriorating or which may need attention.Creating an LLC in California would cost you a minimum tax of $800 every year.

For everyone else who is trying to take D and C assets that are quickly deteriorating and turn them into nice C+ communities that are safe to live in through a targeted value add program, sorry, you're the bad guy.

Look at the roads for deterioration. 

Sonia:You mentioned a deteriorating partnership.

The duplex, on the other hand, was custom-built for an heiress in the 1920s, remodeled and sold in 1945, and was poorly maintained and updated by a fool and his family from 1951 on as the neighborhood inexorably deteriorated from its high point in the 1940s.I've managed to get the county tax assessment for this duplex down by 33%.

I watched them literally come apart and physically deteriorate for half my life.

The deterioration of work ethic that I have seen in the last 25 years, just in general, is appalling.