I guess they expect their marketing to work like some sort of vending machine that drops pre wrapped goodies right into their hands every time they plug in a few coins and pull the lever.

A time machine that takes you back in time to buy AAPL in 1985 13. 

Like washing machine overloads or garage door misuse.And if you paid $500 for all those repairs count yourself lucky. 

I get the big corporations running their business like a machine. 

I would focus on wholesaling build that business into a machine.

Payments are generally handled by machine.

We finally have our STR property set up and rolling, listings cranking on Airbnb and VRBO, and on our way towards getting enough 5 star reviews to kick the machine into high gear. 

I have enough retirement income that I don't need the cash flow so my homes are slowly turning into a money generating machine that buys me more homes.I have only been doing this for a few years and my homes are already producing $30k cash flow to purchase more homes.

Your "typical consumer" thinks you push a button, pay a fee, and get an appraisal that says what you want (since that's how it works with sodas at a vending machine, or things on amazon.com, right...?)

Have the landlord handle those pesky maintenance issues, roofing repairs, deluge of water coming from the washing machine on the 3rd floor that just exploded through to the kitchen below (yes, this just happened to me in my home.