Foreclosure bus tours coming to Greater Cleveland

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WKYC-TV

$15 will buy a bus tour of about a dozen foreclosed northeast Ohio properties.
ReMax realtor Al Stasek drives past handsome Tudor homes in Rocky River.

Several on the block have "For Sale" signs in front of them. He stops at one that has been foreclosed. He's planning to include it on a foreclosure bus tour through the western suburbs.

"Instead of shining a negative light on (foreclosed homes), we want to get good people into these homes and raise the values of our neighborhoods back up," he says.

He's doing the kind of foreclosure tours that are already happening in places like Orlando, Denver, and Las Vegas, where the buses are full. Last week, one tour guest in Orlando said the experience was somewhat sad. "You're looking at homes of someone who fell on hard times, so it's bittersweet."


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