You hit it on the head.

Florida has this thing with hurricanes that dont really sit well with me (I was there for A school right before Katrina hit).

I did have a ladies name but i lost it, So if your out there hit me up.

Christy, I would say that in your example you have just hit the proverbial home run.

Based upon this data we are looking at a projection of over 50 Major Disasters to hit the US by the end of 2006In addition, we are still recovering from fires in California, Colorado, New New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.Yet, we are still going to have to deal with past Hurricane damage.And we still face dry conditions in various parts of the United States that produce fires and we have yet to step into the Atlantic hurricane season that lasts from June to November, with the peak season from mid-August to late October.On top of all this over 350 tornadoes have been recorded as of April and this could be one of the most active and deadly seasons in historyFor more data see: http://www.spc.noaa.gov and To compare from 2005 to 2006 see: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/monthly/index.htmlAs an investor we are tough to research property titles, market value and market trends but one major area that is left out is storm trends.Why storm trends.

Also, I would hit your library once a week and check out every book on real estate investing.

It has to do with cost and efficiency.

That's a whole other story in and of itself....To keep it short, I had lightening hit my house when I was on the phone and it melted the phone, my computer's wiring, and some wiring in other applicances.

Efficient online promotion in a competitive market require require that you have a small network of websites for your marketing campaiign.

It isn't oppressive; it's efficient.