So send out a super slim list of 333 mailers in NY, 333 in Boston, 333 in LA (so still 1k total) OR broadening my scope and just hitting say NY with 1k mailers. 

I would like to utilize these forums to learn and broaden my horizons on all manner of real estate investment.

The problem is that people don't vote for folks that raise their taxes.We need to lower our rate and broaden our base.

It's almost self-evident if you take off your landlord thinking cap.Since you seem to be willing and capable of broadening your frame of reference, let me invite you (and anyone reading this) to join me in mapping out the unexplored possibilities of our industry.

Stay the course and broaden your budget or neighborhoods. 

Real estate is 90% prospecting.My niche is development and building if that helps broaden your perception about what I do.

But we'd also broaden our tax base that would hopefully help improve our schools and roads and other infrastructure.

Bear with me here:Raleigh population: 423,719 (local unemployment 3.6% = 407, 945 employed407,945 * $53,653 aver local salary = $21.9b total annual income of area50,000 AMZ jobs * 100,000 aver salary = $5b incremental annual income from AMZ$5b / $21.9b = 22.8% increase in annual income from AMZNow......I realize that not ALL of these 50,000 AMZ jobs will be injected into the Raleigh economy in one year, but if it takes two years, thats roughly an 11% increase and three years 7.6% (holding local area income stagnant over that time frame, which it wouldn't be)If you broaden the same calculations above to include all of Wake County, the numbers are obviously less impactful (8.5% annual increase in County-wide income in one year), but not immaterial IMO.Another simplistic way of looking at this is the average AMZ salary of $100k is almost twice that of the average Raleigh salary ($53k), so the argument could be made that that's almost like adding 7,500 jobs (as measured by purchasing power) to the local area.Again, I realize these are VERY simplistic arguments and it wouldn't take much to poke holes in it if you really want to parse it, but I do think it makes a solid case for it being a material impact on our local area here in RaleighThat said, I'm certainly not suggesting anyone invest here locally based on just that alone.

Have broadened the search from the Marina to other neighborhoods in SF that are expected to appreciate

I'm an experienced (20+ years) Canadian real estate investor that wants to broaden our portfolio with some US holdings.