Long weekends, holidays, winter break for students this passed year I was renting for $200/night mostly on weekends. 

Also, the holidays will slow the market down drastically in So Ca, it may be your best time to look when no one else is looking.  

I will be in Redding for the Holidays, maybe we can meet up some time to talk!

., ET, Monday through Friday on all non- Federal holidays.

IT might have been better to dig deep and pay the vendor now and save your headache and renter frustration and relax over the next decade, with proper maintenance of course.

(a) If the last day for the performance of any act provided or required by law to be performed within a specified period of time is a holiday, then that period is hereby extended to and including the next day that is not a holiday.

Once the published data catches-up it will be interesting to see if we are experiencing an uncharacteristic spike arising from the temporary relaxation of lending practices a decade ago.

Maybe some banks are relaxing their standards?

When I will be able to "retire", hopefully in a young age, I will still want to put a good chunk of money in my retirement account so after the age of 60-65 I might want to get out of real estate and completely relax from it.

Having your tenants pay via direct deposit, or to some other entity other than yourself, leaves you open to a long eviction process, because the banks don't work on Holidays or week-ends, and they do make mistakes, sometimes, which delays you in receiving your money on time, and there goes your eviction process.