This study integrates theories of landlord maintenance behavior with theories of neighborhood succession in a unified empirical model. The model permits a broad range of landlord responses to neighborhood decline including the possibility of increased maintenance expenditure as reported in recent empirical studies. Hypotheses are tested using a micro‐data set descriptive of 117 St. Louis rental properties.
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