Foreclosure Tourism: Coming to a Suburb Near You?
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 06.02.08 | 11:21 AM ET
Photo by It’s not too often that you see a guided bus tour winding its way through the suburbs. But, as Wendy A. Hoke writes, it could be an increasingly common sight. Hoke took a ride on one of those suburban tour buses in Cleveland recently, and filed a compelling story about the trip for the Christian Science Monitor:
“Though the empty house suggests the end of the dream for one family, this is still America—where legions of dreamers are ready to take their place. And in true American fashion, there’s someone selling tickets to that place—on the foreclosure bus tour.”
The tours of bank-owned homes, which are now available nationwide, come “complete with box lunches and lemonade.”