Shortly after 10 a.m. Monday, Orlando Police officers walked down the balconies of the Howard Johnson hotel on International Drive and taped orange condemned signs to the windows.
At one unit, they stopped, evidently believing it was occupied. They pounded on the door until it opened.
Outside the hotel, a young teenager sat in the parking lot surrounded by stuffed trash bags, school supplies and a scooter. Around the corner from him, a family with children loaded their belongings onto a bus supplied by the Coalition for the Homeless while a group of adults sat on the edge of the property, suitcases in hand, and observed the activity…