I've been living and working in Galveston TX for the past week, and somehow or another I have ended up staying at a hotel that has been determined by the City of Galveston to be "unsafe to live in", and should have been vacated earlier today.

The owner of the motel had hired me to work on this motel prior to the 48 hour notice to vacate, and he said it only means that he can't rent rooms to new tenants, but that old ones (those who aren't renting but are working on the property can stay, there are 2 of us).

The other pic, if you can see it's kind of dark, is of a barricade the owner has put up to block prospective rentors from even entering the property.

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If you are wondering why I might be putting myself thru this, you probably aren't aware of the housing crisis in Galveston, post hurricane Ike (there are few, if any, places to rent/live)