Also bring quarters for the vending machine for him (he will love you for that).

Are you mostly interested in a cash flow machine OR are you interested in social entrepreneurial aspects of the property (no wrong answer here)?

The title company and I are both leaving message after message (every call goes straight to an answering machine), and we have no physical address for them, just a P.O Box.

Here's a couple of the articles:http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/08/debt-collecting-machine/http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/08/local-laws-do-little-to-protect-homeowners/Just be careful.

maytag machines are pretty affordable and reliable.I still don't provide washer and dryer because it's an extra thing to break, and bad tenants can steal them

That said, I am a buy and hold investor so I am not looking for 40 deals a week to feed a wholesaling machine.

What about getting coin-op machines?

If you told the fry girl at McDonalds you had a new machine that would save electricity consumed heating the oil in her fryer... would you expect her to call Corporate McDonalds and pass along the good news?

I don't see an upside, it sounds like gambling to me, and I hate flushing $$$ into slot machines.

The practice will be aesthetically pleasing inside and out- not the normal strip mall space with some operatories and an X-Ray machine stuck in there.