Run-down in a sentence as an adjective

Well, I'm bootstrapping a small systems-training business and want to live somewhere low cost and without a car. While cheap walkable places surely must exist in the US, they're rare and I haven't been able to find many that are also safe and not run-down.

If you wish to cancel the non-compete after it takes effect, you agree to a six month notification and run-down period".I'd need the six month period so I could move from my retirement home in Malta or Corsica or wherever and get a job again.

Run-down definitions

adjective

worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"

See also: creaky decrepit derelict flea-bitten woebegone

adjective

having the spring unwound; "a run-down watch"