Do what you can to make their job easier and again follow up frequently.

As an investor quite frequently I need to wire funds to title companies etc and even in 2022 when all that is handled electronically, I'm still charged $30 each and every time.

Read your audience.

One of them raises the dues frequently, cutting further into my cash flow. 

That makes investors happy (perceived reduction in risk through diversification while still investing in alternative assets) and it makes wall street happy (claw back some money from the self-directed true alternative asset outflows, more products = broader audience = more clients = more money)Hopefully that makes sense.

When it comes to mail piece selection, what you will find is that different mailers work in different markets and/or with different audiences.

Not impossible, but the odds are stacked against you and often you are competing with extremely well qualified and experienced investors.I've been hearing for years that people have been just killing it in the short term rental space, but I'm a conservative investor at heart and while revenue is frequently higher, there are many additional expenses and often an exceptional amount of volatility just inherent with short duration stays. 

But I am very concerned that Florida gets frequent floods and hurricanes which ends up in huge property damages. 

It's hard to know where to start, but we enjoy going to STL, and know a LOT of people in IL who travel there frequently for Cardinal games, etc....so it seems a logical place for us to begin investing. 

The tankless water heater is used much more frequently in Socialist places like Europe than America.