Declining rents rarely happen unless you are in a depressed area with job loss.

Rents go up alsoCash/Depression - NegativeStocks crash.

Because the prices are depressed, they have to make their money on volume, not quality of their work.

These zones claim to be for "stimulating growth in depressed areas" and many of these areas do indeed fit that category, but areas of Bucktown, Avondale, North Center, Roscoe Village and Ravenswood all qualify so don't dismiss your property because you feel you are in an A or B area.

* Disclaimer: This post may belong in Real Estate Development *My family home is in a rural southern town that is depressed but sleepy - not too many crime or drug issues.My “vision board” plan is to renovate my family home and other homes in the area to raise property values, attract tenants, and develop commercial opportunities.

Amherst, MA:  75% of the town's economy depends on student matriculation; if matriculation is cut off for an entire semester, the town will be depressed economically and it will hit real estate hard. 

Remember in the Depression when all of these yokels lost their heads. 

Neither the Great Depression, nor the Great Recession, nor any of the more than three dozen economic slumps over the past two centuries, have ever caused such a sharp decline over such a shockingly short period of time.

She has some type of emotional disorder which has caused her to be disabled on social security but in regards to how they maintain the home ... they are great!

With a possible economic depression on the doorstep, I imagine there will be plenty of homeowners unable to make payments.