Whatever you're willing to type is much appreciated, and dinner or coffee is on me if you have time to meet.

If so I'd love to grab a coffee and swap ideas. 

I appreciate you all and look forward to having coffee / striking up a phone conversation soon!

Buying the machines, collecting the money and depositing it, maintaining the machines.

There are a few drawbacks to desktop, such as it can't easily be accessed by  more than one person at a time and if you use a MAC you have to download fusion (a virtual machine software) so as a MAC user you can run Windows applications. 

Use Google Voice or an answering machine and make them leave messages.

I am trying to get my feet a bit more wet so if you have time or like to discuss real estate I would be happy to meet and share a cup of coffee for a conversation.

I was more or less expecting this, as I closed on the property in December and the deed was recorded in the very last days of 2018.I called the AC property tax office on Saturday, left a message on their machine, clearly stated I planned to call them back on Monday.At 9:00 am today, the office called me up, figured out what was wrong, got me connected to the right guy in the department to correct the issue and send out the correct tax bill, apologized for the mistake.My legal first name is extremely ethnic and I have never gone by it here in the USA.

But in my case I had the benefit of both owners being local, so I had that initial conversation in person over coffee.

It is a free market.I think the hassle and overhead of building the machine for such small margins will eventually make them crumble under their own weight.