"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in message
If contracts don't mean anything, how do these things work in hotels? Can
a deadbeat with more debts than assets pay for one night in a hotel room
and then refuse to vacate it until the hotel goes through all those proper
legal steps?

Or are hotels covered by a different section of the law?

My curious mind wants to know.....

I don't know all the legal ramifications, but I've read stores in the paper.
People would be put up in a room by either state welfare organization or
charitable organizations for a specific time. Then they would refuse to move
out after that time. It then took a court order to get them evicted. I
don't know if the typical overnight guest would have those "protections" or
not I'm sure much of this varies by state also.