In our market, I suspect I could fill a Christmas day moveout before New Years day.Personally I never do long leases at all, just month to month.  

. :(  I usually come home to the states once a year but that wont be until around Christmas time. 

Thanksgiving week, Christmas week, etc).This is why it's not impossible, but highly improbable that a full time W-2 employee would qualify as a real estate professional, except in very limited situations (e.g. 5% or more owner-employee of a real property trade or business).

At Christmas time everyone gets something and a card.

The law had to blow the doors open right after Christmas?

Think why does this person need to move in like today, the day before Christmas? 

Once september approaches you see a significant slow down, and by the middle of November (I call this the pre christmas spending. everyone is buying christmas gifts and don't have money for security deposit and 1st month's rent).    

My wife picks up cheap decorator items at The Christmas Tree Shop for nick-nacks.

We've placed people right at Christmas on a 'home for the holidays' ad.

So far I've had a tenant die the day after Christmas (a smoker) which cost me $2k to renovate his unit, another tenant sneak people into the house unapproved, constant lies, and the famous one guy always scheming to get out of the rent.