This leads to a slow or stagnant increase in property prices and rents in established areas as people move further out and rent or buy newer homes.Natural disaster risk - Natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes destroy communities.

Once we started punching we noticed the ENTIRE TOP STORY of the home felt like it was in an earthquake.

Oakland probably is the wild wild west, and slight tremors in SF could cause earthquakes in Oakland's real estate scene.

Unfortunately, I can't screen or interview prospective tenants (in person) because I live in Haiti. 

Some other reasons properties may not sell so fast.... sink holes, foundation issues, need for all new plumbing, need for all new electrical, ghosts, history of a murder on property, bio-hazards, methamphetamine cooking, occupied by squatters or professional tenants, neighborhood violence, noise (airport, railroad, highway), smell (animal farms, slaughter houses, industrial plants), natural disaster danger (flood, landslide, tornado, hurricane, earthquake, volcano), finicky seller.Have you been to the neighborhood at all times of the day?

Been through hurricane, earthquakes and now fires.

Earthquake Safety 6.

If the property values in your market soften, if the tenant moves in and destroys it, fire, earthquakes, floods, hail, hurricane, another lock down requires you to keep a non-paying tenant - honestly anything - and my position in the property is at jeopardy.

All you can do is repair the existing billboard (even if an earthquake knocks it down you are not allowed to put it back, Welcome to CA lol).The reason this adverse clause for the owners of the building is in there is to protect the Billboard company from losing their investment to another company after a couple of years.

My dad invest in Haiti , well he lives there.but its for well soem countries it is best you have visited there or know people and how to cut red tape like paying people extra money to get on their feet to speed up the process Effeective search on if land is not on somone name etc...Do you plan on retiring at least part time or down the road to the country you will invest in?