First, I want to thank everyone in this forum for all of their guidance and help as I've asked questions for the last few months. Special thanks to Daditude who even pm'ed me with a ton of advice and to help answer additional questions that I hadn't even thought of yet.
As of last night I now have a pinball machine in my house and couldn't be more excited. It's my first and from what I can tell based on other posts here "the first of many".
It's a one owner and was in a Family Entertainment Center. I happened to know the owners and GM and asked them if they had any contacts who sell used pinballs just to see what options they might have access too that I wasn't seeing locally. They said "we'll sell you ours" and they offered me a heck of a deal to take it off their hands. So I went to the wife and said "I'm going to need to increase my budget for a much newer machine and she said "go for it". I really wanted a modern pinball so it was perfect and she told me we should put it a side area of our living room next to a multicade and not stick in the garage haha. You know you've married the "one" when...
PS - The coin door flap is there in case that's driving anyone else nuts in the picture. My daughter apparently was playing with it this morning and made it stick up. I didn't notice it until after I took this picture.