Why not take a tour of other people's misfortune?

Have a little money saved up? A few hours to kill? Why not take a new kind of tour - to peruse the bank-seized properties of homeowners fallen on hard times?

The tour is free, soft drinks and donuts are included, and you might just make a killing on the wounded US real estate market.

"Hi, how is everybody doing today? I am Tommy and this is Sheri," said Tommy Burch, a real estate agent who with his wife has been conducting three-hour "Foreclosure Bus Tours" every weekend for the past four months.