Tuesday, October 14, 2008

A Sign Of The Times

My mother is in town, and I drove out to the west suburbs to pick her up at the house of the friend she was staying with so that my kids, Kim and I could see her. Coming back from dropping her off tonight at her friend's house after her visit, I was stunned by a huge billboard I saw off the tollway. I thought at first it must be a joke.

You can actually take a bus tour that takes you to foreclosed homes in Chicago and its suburbs, so you can see them and bid on them. It's no joke-- it's for real.

http://www.repohometourchicago.com/

This is just sick. There are so many foreclosed homes now that you can take a tour, like the Hollywood Celebrities Houses tour. Or more like the Chicago Haunted House Tour, except more ghoulish.

4 comments:

SkylersDad said...

That is quite sick, trying to capitalize off of others misfortune.

Cap'n Ergo "XL+II" Jinglebollocks said...

This somehow reminds me of the dude who put up an eBay page offering the rights to name his daughter for $5,000-- you know, call her Nabisco or Oreo or Xerox, or something.

(and do you get lil' bags of pretzels on the tour??)

Fran said...

I am stunned into silence.

Anonymous said...

They do that around here, too, only they try to remove the ghoul factor and call them bank owned homes.