After attempts to sell the motel and an adjacent house in 2011 for $190,000 found no takers, the property was auctioned for $105,000 to Hometown Bank, a creditor, as a result of foreclosure.
It was purchased in August 2011 by sisters Deborah Harvey and Priscilla Bledsaw, who have begun to restore the buildings to their 1940s' appearance.

We were holding our breath.
Then we found out it was bought with the intention to restore it as a motel, which is its best use, and by people who have preservation experience.
What is really special is their attention to detail.
They’re taking such care; the preservation has been very authentic.

— Kaisa Barthuli, program manager, US National Park Service Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program
A 1970s' gabled roof installed during the Asplin era was restored to the original flat roof in April 2013, a prerequisite for listing the streamline moderne property on the US National Register of Historic Places.
The $12,000 federal matching grant from the National Park Service Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program required the owners raise a matching $12,000 sum — a task which was assisted by donations and a preservation award from the Route 66 Association of Missouri.
An additional matching grant, awarded in 2015, will fund restoration of the building's architectural neon.

The Boots Motel is one of the very important properties along Route 66.
Now that the roof has been removed, it will be eligible as a listing on the National Register of Historic Places which will truly acknowledge its role in our American history.

— Kaisa Barthuli, National Park Service
The original red-and-white Boots Court neon signage was restored by the original signmaker in 2013 with a $2500 donation from "tattoo man" Ron Jones of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
Jones is known on U.S. Route 66 for the more than eighty individual tattoos on his body identifying various individual Route 66 landmarks, including the Boots Motel.

The sisters reopened the first portion (five rooms in the 1946 annex building) to Route 66 travellers in May 2012, as part of a proposed five-year restoration effort with help from Ron Hart of the Route 66 Chamber of Commerce and plan to use the income from occupancy of this section of the motel, along with individual donations and souvenir sales from the old motel's office, to restore the eight original rooms in the main building.

The newly restored rooms include 1940s' touches such as real keys, chrome light fixtures, chenille bedspreads, monogrammed towels, built-in dressers and a radio tuned to a station playing 1940s' hits.
Bob Boots, the 82-year-old (in 2011) son of the original owners, travelled from Tulsa to Carthage in 2012 as the first guest of the restored motel at the 1940s' price of $2.50/night, which he reportedly paid in 1939 currency.
After attempts to sell the motel and an adjacent house in 2011 for $190,000 found no takers, the property was auctioned for $105,000 to Hometown Bank, a creditor, as a result of foreclosure. It was purchased in August 2011 by sisters Deborah Harvey and Priscilla Bledsaw, who have begun to restore the buildings to their 1940s' appearance.
We were holding our breath. Then we found out it was bought with the intention to restore it as a motel, which is its best use, and by people who have preservation experience. What is really special is their attention to detail. They’re taking such care; the preservation has been very authentic.
— Kaisa Barthuli, program manager, US National Park Service Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program
A 1970s' gabled roof installed during the Asplin era was restored to the original flat roof in April 2013, a prerequisite for listing the streamline moderne property on the US National Register of Historic Places. The $12,000 federal matching grant from the National Park Service Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program required the owners raise a matching $12,000 sum — a task which was assisted by donations and a preservation award from the Route 66 Association of Missouri. An additional matching grant, awarded in 2015, will fund restoration of the building's architectural neon.
The Boots Motel is one of the very important properties along Route 66. Now that the roof has been removed, it will be eligible as a listing on the National Register of Historic Places which will truly acknowledge its role in our American history.
— Kaisa Barthuli, National Park Service
The original red-and-white Boots Court neon signage was restored by the original signmaker in 2013 with a $2500 donation from "tattoo man" Ron Jones of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Jones is known on U.S. Route 66 for the more than eighty individual tattoos on his body identifying various individual Route 66 landmarks, including the Boots Motel.
The sisters reopened the first portion (five rooms in the 1946 annex building) to Route 66 travellers in May 2012, as part of a proposed five-year restoration effort with help from Ron Hart of the Route 66 Chamber of Commerce and plan to use the income from occupancy of this section of the motel, along with individual donations and souvenir sales from the old motel's office, to restore the eight original rooms in the main building.
The newly restored rooms include 1940s' touches such as real keys, chrome light fixtures, chenille bedspreads, monogrammed towels, built-in dressers and a radio tuned to a station playing 1940s' hits. Bob Boots, the 82-year-old (in 2011) son of the original owners, travelled from Tulsa to Carthage in 2012 as the first guest of the restored motel at the 1940s' price of $2.50/night, which he reportedly paid in 1939 currency.
Boots Court Motel