You know buildings are in bad shape when blue roofing tarps would be an upgrade.
At the Brooks Villas apartment complex, which has been abandoned for six years, the tarps that once covered the roofs have been worn to tatters. Several of the roofs have started to collapse. Some of the others have collected so many dead, rotting leaves that they support thickets of ferns.
Despite the spooky beauty of the place — the towering pecan trees, the camellias and Mexican petunias planted by residents who, apparently, tried to make it a real home — these apartments need to go.