If you don't clean up the property you're limiting your future buyer pool and the future buyer will devalue the property by the dollar amount it will take to clean up the contamination. 

Additionally, what could happen if the currency continues to be devalued at an ever increasing rate, making it hard for our tenants en-masse to pay their rents since the bulk of their worthless cash would be going to food and energy costs. 

The sovereign debt nations will devalue their currencies to jump-start their economies and global trade will probably end like it did the 1930s.

In my market, of you can prove the rent roll of your property then you're devaluing it essentially.

In markets where real estate isn’t priced in US dollars and too a certain extent euros, there are huge discounts available to the US buyer due to the enormous devaluation of the local currencies over the last few years.

I think we are past the point of no return, our debt sadly needs to keep growing in order to devalue the dollar and the governments debt. 

In the last couple of years, most of the airlines and hotels have devalued their loyalty programs, making such insane award redemptions even more difficult.

I see this overlay actually devaluing the area since it is objectively no longer "up and coming."

Borrow against their assets...Pay the debt back with devalued dollars.

There are high property taxes here - I think that holds down home values in some areas and even causes faster devaluation of struggling areas with shrinking populations.