I use a small local team of a letter folders/envelope writers for .20 per letter.If you are doing the "hand written" yellow letter (which is huge labor but high response - close to 2% in my testing), you can simply customize as you write.  

Some ideas I have are handyman work, managing a RE website, or write RE blogs.

By the way, I am not much of a writer.

Now, we may be a minority, but according to the random article below, you would need to make an annual income of $303k to buy a median priced home in San Francisco.https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/income-needed-buy-home-San-Francisco-real-estate-12614111.phpBut then again, these are just articles and opinions of the writers and like good investors we are, we should base do our due diligence and research on many different resources.

Chances are, that is also the same person that simply sees a sucker on the other end of the phone hungry to purchase their overpriced or challenged property that no one else wants.Here is why I won't sell to the caller or letter writer:  I am sitting on gold. 

Anyone interested in investing in my writers retreat cabins destination recording studio homestead on the water?

Writers have any REI knowledge? 

We are also interested in any ideas posters have, as our agents work with MFH investors and often do a LOT of work to walk properties and then get paid nothing, because the investor puts an offer in on their own, or with another agent, or they pull out of the contract during the contract window.Has anyone ever seen a RE representation agreement with a "kill fee" in addition to a commission rate, like writers can sometimes get in the publishing world when an editor kills a piece they were going to publish so that the writer at least gets something for the work they did?

He is a prolific writer and very experienced in that marketGino

In Washington DC, which has much tighter restrictions on signage, one strategy is to post a sign late Friday afternoon, when the ticket-writers go off duty, and take it down after dark on Sunday.