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Article: Maryland Realtor offers an afternoon on the bus to look for bargains
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- September 29, 2009
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David Nevitte walks into a squat, mid-century ranch house on a
hillside in Ellicott City. The floors are littered with garbage: a
pair of discarded dog food bowls, a bag of disused hair care
supplies. The air is dank and smells of mold. In one corner, there
are rodent droppings.
"Now this is a foreclosed property!" Nevitte, a Realtor, says
wryly, as potential home buyers file through the front door and mill
about, sizing up carpets with the toes of their shoes, inspecting
window frames and light fixtures. One couple surveys a wall in the
kitchen, trying to recreate where a refrigerator and a garbage
disposal were once installed.
The house is the sixth stop on a foreclosure bus tour organized ...