Foreclosure Tourism: Coming to a Suburb Near You?

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  06.02.08 | 11:21 AM ET

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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.”

Tags: Global Village, North America, United States, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


1 Comment for Foreclosure Tourism: Coming to a Suburb Near You?

Andrew Wise 06.18.08 | 12:25 PM ET

We’ve put together a collection of foreclosure help blogs started by people that are actually facing foreclosure now, and they’ve found some pretty ingenious ways of pulling through and surviving—truly inspiring.

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