Helping a Family Living in a Hotel

You guys live here? At the hotel? Yeah, we do. You guys all stay in one room?

We make it work. We got my mom and my sister share the queen bed in the bedroom, and then my son and I share the fold-out bed in the living room. We have a dog, too. Where do you guys keep all your stuff?

Right now, it's in storage. We just brought the bare necessities with us here. How long have you been in the hotel? Since the end of June.

That long? What happened to put you in the hotel? I was ready to sign another year's lease. They wouldn't let me sign another year's lease because she was going to stay with due to my background check didn't come back due to things that happened in my past.

I've I've been sober for 3 years. First of all, congrats. Hey, thank you. Yeah, yeah.

How old is your son? Is that your mom? Yeah. I'm 7.

You're 7 years old? Is that why you got the 7 on your shirt? Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You feel good about your family?

Yeah. Do you like living at the hotel? Yeah. As a kid, I'd love it, too.

Oh, yeah. They They got a pool here, so he's always And it has a hot tub. Probably gets expensive, though, huh? Yeah.

We found a four-bedroom house, four-bedroom, two-bathroom house. $279,000 and it's ours. Is that your dream, to live in a house where you can call your own? Edward wants a bathtub.

My health isn't the greatest. What's wrong with your health? I've got diabetes. Oh, well, you can't be living in a hotel if you're not stable on your feet.

What would it take to get you out of the hotel and into a place that works for your family? I guess just getting the the down payment for a house. We're living right now from paycheck to paycheck. You are?

How are you able to afford it? Right now, my dad helped out. Thank God the lady here, you know, bless her heart, she like extended our check-out for us, so that you know, waiting for my dad to come up with the funds. We didn't have to worry about packing up and coming to sit out in the lobby trying to figure it out, you know.

Beautiful people are out there, huh? Yeah. What's the toughest part about living in a hotel? Being cooped up, you know, with my damn kid.

He's got a lot of energy. Yeah, I would have never guessed. Hey, come here. I got to tell you a secret, okay?

Come here. I need you to do me a favor, okay? Yeah. Give this to your mom.

Go tell her you love her, okay? Oh. you. Thank you, Josh.

Oh, that was so I know it's not going to fix like your problem for the house. Yeah. I want to take some pressure off. That's going to help, you know.

Thank you. Well, as long as you guys stick together as a family, I think you guys can get through anything. You got a good family. Thank you.

Oh, you're so welcome.