In MA a tenants possessions can be moved at that point but 48 hours notice is required and it cant be a weekend or a holiday when the court is not in session. 

That being said I offer a grace period through the 5th so I don't have to hear about any complaints about when they get paid, when they get their disability check, a holiday, a weekend, etc.  

So, even if you would rather not have tenants move out in November, when it's difficult to re-rent until the holidays are over, if that tenant really needs to move out in November, they'll just break their lease. 

She would go to Mexico on extended trips and never tell me, so I never knew if she was on holiday, or if she had died! 

That date was a goal because I knew there would be the demand over the holiday - I didn't even discount the price. 

For example the only time I have not been able to rent the unit right away was over the christmas holiday and my tenant kept paying rent even tho he didnt live there.  

We try to do something at least twice a year for our great tenants, like a gift card around the holidays and cards around their birthdays.  

There was NOTHING I could do as all local HVAC companies or supply stores could get the part in fast enough (it was around holiday time)....

Apparently our plumber was ready to put the handy woman in the ground, the handy woman was drunk as a skunk and had signed paperwork with the local gas company to replace all the gas piping, $4k, and it went on and on.When I got home we had to apologize to nearly every tenant, fired the handy woman, who promptly smacked a pregnant woman (not our tenant) when she got home after being fired and ended up in jail for 39 days.Anyway, have a nice holiday!

The only month I had a hard time finding renters was December, because of the holidays, but even that wasn't impossible.If your applicants are concerned the rent might go up if they don't have a lease, just write into the MTM agreement, that the rent will not change for the first year.