How to approach an apartment building?

[Cokedealer]

I have one drink machine (Dixie Narco 501E)  and one snack machine (AP 6000) I know of a small apartment building that Id like to email management and ask if I can put one or two of my machines in the shared laundry room.

 

What's the best way of asking management this? Ill mention that it will be an added convenience to all the residents but I'm worried they'll as for a monthly cut, and if they ask for a monthly cut what should it be? I have no idea how the vending machine will do month-to-month so I cant just give a number right off the bat. 

 

Has anyone else gone through something similar before?

[cvending]

Apt. buildings are now for getting your eqiupment abused.  If you doland the account be prepared for vandalism.  I am not sure what you mean by a small apt bldg, but they do not usually move a lot of product.  Again, this one amy be different.  If they demand a commission on sales, tell them you will start low (5%?) and re-evaluate after 6 months when you have a better idea of weaht type of volume they produce.

[lacanteen]

Unless there's cameras, don't do it.

[AZVendor]

The machines would need to be in cages at the very least.  Don't believe them if they say the machines would be safe inside a locked laundry room or weight room that "only tenants have a key to."  Who do you think would be the vandals?

[AngryChris]

We have 4 apartment locations and I personally don't recommend anyone do it.  We acquired them as part of a package deal.  We had the option of not taking them but the numbers were decent.  Two of the locations are regularly calling for various reasons, almost all of which are because someone messed with the machines and it resulted in other people losing money.  Basically vandalism.  Two of the locations are relatively secure but they don't do as much revenue.  The lower the income, the higher the vandalism and the higher the revenue.  Only put machines in there that won't hurt you if they get destroyed.

[ABCVending]

Need upgraded locks for sure - Abloy or something better than basic tubular locks.

We had to put hasps on with puck locks - had a couple of bottle drops in an apartment complex....they actually did decent $$ bolted them to the walls with L brackets to keep the shaking down - if there are a lot of kids living there all kinds of crap will get put in the validator and coin mechs.

We had lock pickers skimming $$ for a while - they were smarter than the average tweaker.....they'd pick the machines open and take $10-$20 at random...was not tracking those two that close and took a while to figure out we were coming up short (bottle drops tend to come up short from shaking product out of them....even though these were bolted down took a minute to catch on)

Better locks fixed that problem - got the glass smashed out of one of them but have a number of spare doors/glass so no problem swapping out - finally pulled the machines when the apartment sold and the new owners wanted a cut - don't do commission for less than $1k/month accts.