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Publication: Bucks County Courier Times Article Excerpt: For Sale: Prime piece of real estate; great location; beautiful view; quiet neighborhood; maintenance included; price reduced. Act now. These cemetery plots won’t be around forever. The above advertisement may be an exaggeration, but genuine listings for cemetery plots are flooding the classified advertising pages of [...] Publication: Wall Street Journal Article Excerpt: For nearly 20 years, John Dotson planned to spend eternity at Block 29L, Lot 58, Site 1DD at Parklawn Memorial Park in Rockville, Md. Heaven will have to wait. Plagued by a series of misfortunes at home, from job loss to multiple illnesses, Mr. Dotson has [...] Publication: The Washington Post Article Excerpt: After Debbie Jenkins got sick, couldn’t work and lost two houses to foreclosure, after she burned through her savings, moved into an unheated garage in Crofton and still found herself six months behind on rent, she looked around for something to sell to help pay for [...] Publication: WFTV Orlando Florida Article Excerpt: The economy is getting so difficult for some people that they’re actually selling their cemetery plots back to the city of Orlando. Some of them had purchased those plots so they could be buried next to family members. The real estate housing market may be slow across [...] Publication: ABC15 Article Excerpt: PHOENIX — Two months ago Linda Mendez got a second job; she’s having a tough time keeping up with the mortgage on her South Phoenix home. She now works in health care and the banking industry, doing billing and operations work. “I am in need of the money, the way [...] Publication: The Denver Post Article Excerpt: With money tight and work elusive, Deena Mangan is selling her jewelry, coins and camera collection. Also on the table: eternity next to her family. The Littleton resident is listing her family’s last burial plot at Fairmount Cemetery for sale on Craigslist and eBay at nearly half [...] Publication: CBS 11 / TXA 21 Article Excerpt: You’ve likely heard offers for a free month’s rent or a free night’s stay at a hotel, but what about a free final resting place? That’s right, free burial plots are being offered in North Texas. So you’re flipping through the morning paper looking for coupons and [...] Publication: AARP Bulletin Today Article Excerpt: In lovely woods just outside the tiny town of Westminster, S.C., discreetly scattered among the tall pines and poplars, are 20 graves, many hand-dug by Billy Campbell. The graves, mounds of earth dotted with wildflowers and bathed in dappled sunlight, are marked with flat stones engraved with [...] Publication: CBS 5 San Fransisco Article Excerpt: SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) ― Most real estate lost value during the recession, but the land in cemeteries increased in value. Burial plots are for sale in big numbers on EBay, Craigslist, and other internet websites. Ty Billings has a bunch for sale in Concord. Buy [...] Publication: Press-Enterprise Article Excerpt: A cemetery plot in Riverside is selling for $3,500. In Colton, one goes for $6,500 or you can save $1,000 by getting two. A plot in Bloomington is a relative bargain at $1,200. Those are among the growing number of cemetery plots listed on Craigslist, eBay and Web sites [...] |
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