I recently financed three new builds in the Jasper area near Big Canoe and I'll be heading up with my family shortly after Christmas for a "tour".

If you pay that before the end of the month, the reported balance is going to be $0 even if you buy $5k worth of Christmas presents next week, because that float won't count until the next statement closes.

I made sure the inspection was scheduled for Christmas Eve.

So, it's the season of Advent with Christmas around the corner.

Thank you so much @Isreal Adeyanju for this information, I work in Newport area and love to connect after work, if you have some time after Christmas or new year. 

I'd love to buy up some land in the Christmas or Santiago Mountains, but I love hunting for and photographing rare snakes so that's sort of a niche use haha.The Chihuahuan desert and western mountains of Texas are no joke, it is some of the most remote, unpopulated, water-starved, but breathtakingly beautiful country in the entire US.Just FYI it's not that west Texans dislike solar or wind farms... we love money!

We just button down our lake house and hope to get a Thanksgiving (we did this year) and Christmas (nothing yet). 

Christmas on the house.

.- You close on December 10th- The property is in great shape and does not need any significant repairs- It only needs some paint touch-up and changing a couple of broken fixtures, which you do yourself- You spend the next week buying furniture, electronics and supplies and installing/arranging everything yourself- You also roll up your sleeves and scrub the toilets and sinks and appliances- You put it on AirBnB/VRBO and have your first guest renting it for the 3 days of Christmas- You second guest rents it for the following weekend and leaves before NYE- You personally clean and restock the place between these two guestsCongrats!

Cruz is a total dork, but a 3-4 week vacancy between Thanksgiving and Christmas is very normal.