However, this structure provides two main benefits: 1) I don't have to build a big marketing machine to raise money.  

Suburbs in path of progress is the low hanging fruit.

What you all think when it comes to use deal machine?

This was due to finance arbitrage like many retail bankruptcies, They were selling furniture/TV/appliances for 2 decades financed at 3-4% and borrowing at 2-3%, now their billions in floating rate notes are at 7-8% but only getting the fixed 3-4% for the washing machines etc They lost 77 mil last year and rising fast so had to Chapter 11 to stop the bleeding.Next 1-2 years will be very interesting in markets/CRE etc.

Quote from @Jon Martin: Beautiful machine!

The Keurig type gets used more but some people bring their own grind and want a regular drip machine.

They haven't emailed or called me back yet.I just also called Doug Michie in Ventura but got an answering machine so I left voice mail asking him about this as well.Hopefully, they will contact me next week.

We are hoping to avoid doing any sort of partnership and maintain a single member LLC, but searching online hasn't been fruitful.

He's enjoying the fruit of his **** labor.

The finished product and getting the rewards from the fruit of the labor is way down the line.