Tenants remain at shuttered Modesto motel

People at the nonoperational Bugetel Inns & Suites in Modesto, Calif. are pictured Friday February 1, 2019 one week after owners filed for bankruptcy. Though tenants were given a few hours to vacate the property last week, some have chosen to stay.

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[jeffreyplanck]

I know where this place is at, I used to eat at the Denny's restaurant next door. To those that want to make your life better, get into the Turning Point program. I ended up at the C.E.R.T center in Ceres and got into this program, they helped me improve my life because I was serious and getting clean and staying clean. It's November of 2022 now and I am still clean and healthier than when I got into Turning Point, I can't thank the peer navigators I had enough for their help and guidance. You and only you are in control of where you take your life, you have to help yourself to get better if you really want it.

[taracate]

This actually makes me really sad. I know it wasn’t the nicest place but it was close to Doctors Hospital and my boyfriend had to stay in the icu for 6 days and I’m not from here so I didn’t have any connections yet and they gave me a room for a discount because all I had was $50 and I don’t know how I could have gotten through those times if the employees had not been so kind. I ended up staying for almost a month because of the health conditions and recovery and yes there was some unsettling people but I don’t think it’s the hotels fault for that necessarily. While I was there, people would break into the rooms or when a person would leave, they would steal anything they could. People wouldn’t pay but they would have so much stuff that they couldn’t just leave. It’s a law that you’re only allowed to stay fir 21 days at a time but people would have other people rent the room so they wouldn’t have to leave. How can you expect businesses to help out people when the people they try to help are robbing them and making it impossible for them to survive? The people who are complaining about this are the same people who could have prevented it from happening but didn’t. Now it’s affecting their life so it’s a problem? If a hotel is going into bankruptcy, it’s because they don’t make enough money so unless these people all paid their fair prices then they don’t have a right to complain about anything. If all the hookers came together, they could have totally paid the bills, I’m not being rude, but its true. There was enough illegal sales going on that they could have saved the hotel if they weren’t so selfish. Put your money where your mouth is. Lol