Teresa Groebecker of Real Estate Consortia thinks that in 10 years every home title will be on the blockchain as an NFT.
In a [recent interview ](https://youtu.be/MP2xGAfUn0I?t=1167) long-time real estate innovator Teresa Grobecker claimed that in as little as a decade home titles, repair receipts, appraisals, and various other real-estate related documents will be hosted on the blockchain as NFTs. 

She claims that this will help reduce friction in many of the steps of buying and selling homes, and that it might even reduce bias in the process.
[{"id": "hu5wdth", "text": "I doubt it.  In 2022 my city\u2019s building department doesn\u2019t even accept PDF signatures or digital drawings.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6nna8", "text": "The number of companies that don't do eSign is astounding.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6uwbe", "text": "This feels like the time when digital photos were refused. \n\nI had federal contracts and it was nearly an act of congress to get the agency to accept them \u2014 then they required the digital photos to be printed, in color.\n\nWe are reaching a topping point on digital signatures\u2014 eventually the heel dragging will become a drag on profit as customers and gatekeepers move towards lower-friction providers.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hu6xgc6", "text": "But do they still take fax?", "replies": [{"id": "hu6y51o", "text": "Well sure, a fax is tangible and therefore highly secure.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}, {"id": "hu71n45", "text": "Maybe I need to start a fax to blockchain service.", "replies": [{"id": "hu76263", "text": "Shut up and take my money backslash Fry backslash memefile dot jpeg", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu5wkil", "text": "Keep dreaming", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu5y464", "text": "Not a bad concept. Like a car fax but for properties. \n\nIssue is the willingness of owners to document on blockchain. New roof, sure, slap it on the blockchain. Burst pipe? Let\u2019s forget it happened.", "replies": [{"id": "hu7o2b0", "text": "this is the point - if its going to happen it has to have buy-in from literally everyone, from the county down to the guy that gets paid in cash to fix the burst pipe and not report it to the insurance company.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu5y84h", "text": "It will certainly make title insurance negligible.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6tqtx", "text": "That\u2019s an interesting road block \u2014 the attorneys and insurers who currently profit will fight change.", "replies": [{"id": "hucct6h", "text": "It literally costs more to mint an NFT than it does to do a title search.", "replies": [{"id": "hucvfmq", "text": "That\u2019s like saying it takes more time to learn HoTMetaL software , then buying a server, and then figuring out how to run Windows Server, all to set up a webpage in 1997.\n\nYou\u2019re thinking statically in a very fast moving environment.\n\n\u201cLook how much faster my fax is that my BlackBerry receiving  PDF over 2G\u201d", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu5z9t2", "text": "The other day, I just had to physically go to a courthouse to pull a deed. Good luck getting them on a blockchain.", "replies": [{"id": "hu639aa", "text": "I had a borrower physically mail me 5 years of tax returns. He did not have an email and would only discuss things via phone call and send diligence via mail. I think the concept of blockchain would send him into a coma", "replies": [{"id": "hu6tezy", "text": "I still remember when the telephone company discussed how long they planned to run both touch-tone and rotary dial systems.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}, {"id": "hunxzla", "text": "Ugh, I have the same thing with a FSBO. I\u2019m reprinting the buyers in this transaction and this FSBO couple refuse to live in the 21st Century when it comes to technology.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hu6t87u", "text": "It will require a solid proof of cost savings for any jurisdiction to first run a blockchain system in parallel, and then switch.\n\nIt will happen, the inefficiencies are very expensive which gives rise to the need for a better system.\n\nTen years is not feasible, however.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hu75oyo", "text": "It\u2019s interesting, I somehow ended up with a lot of lawyer friends despite my lack of law schooling. \n\nWe used to joke about how loathe the legal system is to adopt new technologies \u2014 \u201cit\u2019s surprising you don\u2019t still wear white wigs.\u201d\n\nI said way back that efficiency would seem to favor court hearings by video conference, to speed things along and save travel costs etc\u2026  to make better use of the judge\u2019s time with all the caseloads growing. \n\nWe laughed then.  \n\nThen last year, I gave a deposition on Zoom. \n\nChange like this is nothing, then it\u2019s everywhere.   So who knows.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hu92vm0", "text": "This", "replies": [{"id": "hu92wf1", "text": "Hey there hueyzln! If you agree with someone else's comment, please leave an **upvote** instead of commenting **\"This\"**! By upvoting instead, the original comment will be pushed to the top and be more visible to others, which is even better! Thanks! :)\n***\n ^(I am a bot! Visit) [^(r/InfinityBots)](https://reddit.com/r/InfinityBots) ^(to send your feedback! More info:) [^(Reddiquette)](https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439#wiki_in_regard_to_comments)", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hua7uem", "text": "What happens to e conveyance in UK I wonder\u2026", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu604e7", "text": "Lol", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu60u34", "text": "The last time this topic came up I pointed out that we currently own properties that have the title transfers recorded on *index cards.*\n\nLiterally pull a physical index card out of a drawer and write the transaction details by hand.\n\nTry talking them about a blockchain and they will think it is what you attach to the inmates ankle when they are out busting rocks in the yard.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6t0hs", "text": "Blockchain tech will be pushed at a gov level by people on both sides of the aisle and is already finding a home with many younger republican house members.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6v7f0", "text": "Any system that lowers costs and increases efficiency is all but inevitable, the timeline is the question rather than the eventuality.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}, {"id": "hu7ef8r", "text": "&gt;many younger republican house members\n\nWell, in all fairness the young republicans I know aren't really concerned with altruistic endeavors so I would suspect they are just posturing in order to line their pockets.\n\nNot that there is anything wrong with that, but don't be fooled in to thinking that those touting blockchain technology aren't doing it with an eye towards making money down the  line.\n\nFor the record I have money invested in companies who are working towards using blockchain technologies in practical applications - I just don't think property records are a practical use yet. Maybe someday, but definitely not in 10 years.", "replies": [{"id": "hu9fkvb", "text": "Invested in which companies?  Which ticker symbols?  I\u2019m scientifically curious.  :)", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu62l3l", "text": "This is hilarious. We can't even get county real estate records departments to digitize their existing documents and you expect they will be on board with blockchain and NFT's? Come the fuck on. The only way that system works is if EVERY county in state gets on board - that WILL NOT happen. You're also talking about taking on the lobbying monster that is the Title industry as well as lawyers in states where it is mandated a closing occur through an attorneys office.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu64hhs", "text": "I have a feeling she is involved in a blockchain startup on some level.", "replies": [{"id": "hu720u0", "text": "This", "replies": [{"id": "hu72297", "text": "Hey there fattymccheese! If you agree with someone else's comment, please leave an **upvote** instead of commenting **\"This\"**! By upvoting instead, the original comment will be pushed to the top and be more visible to others, which is even better! Thanks! :)\n***\n ^(I am a bot! Visit) [^(r/InfinityBots)](https://reddit.com/r/InfinityBots) ^(to send your feedback! More info:) [^(Reddiquette)](https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439#wiki_in_regard_to_comments)", "replies": [{"id": "hu764at", "text": "This", "replies": [{"id": "hu84h40", "text": "This", "replies": [{"id": "hu87xkh", "text": "These", "replies": [{"id": "hu8ffo0", "text": "Deez", "replies": [{"id": "huasd8i", "text": "Nuts", "replies": [], "depth": 8}], "depth": 7}], "depth": 6}], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}, {"id": "hu8fube", "text": "This", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hu8tirp", "text": "That's literally what [her company](https://reconsortia.com/) does.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu64mx6", "text": "Someone\u2019s bag holding I\u2019ll bet. \n\nAnyone dealing with commercial or residential RE knows she\u2019s full of nonsense.", "replies": [{"id": "hunzsey", "text": "Yep.\n\nThis is her company: https://reconsortia.com\n\nThey\u2019re trying to do a blockchain startup for Real Estate.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu6cole", "text": "Maybe in a thousand years, but it would be cool", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu6d3mr", "text": "Why do the bitcoin bros need to so aggressively promote their nonsense?\n\nJust so they can make more money, and sell thereby screwing all the other bitcoin bros hoping to make money.\n\nJust codefied greed.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6rig4", "text": "You are misunderstanding the general case by focusing on a tangent. \n\nThe protocol is so powerful that it has attracted some of the brightest, most innovative thinkers from across a range of disciplines. \n\nThat\u2019s not to say that this particular  post is accurate, but dismissing the protocol with nonsense is shortsighted.   \n\n\u201cEmail is a silly protocol ripe for scam artists, when we have a perfectly useful mail delivery system and mailboxes at every home, office, and institution.\u201d", "replies": [{"id": "hu6s5jl", "text": "....YOu are not thinking.  \n\n\nEmail is far more efficient that physical mailed letters. This is not of any beneficial use. There is no need to use blockchain for this..", "replies": [{"id": "hu6sngp", "text": "You missed the point.\n\nPeople, not unlike you, publicly ridiculed e-commerce, websites, and email in their early days. \n\nYou can read articles about this phenomenon. Important people, people who should know better, completely misunderstood the eventual utility of email, and websites, and online payments, etc.\n\nIt\u2019s an analogy to compare your dismissal of this protocol out of hand.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6tf5v", "text": "..you are STILL not thinking.  \n\n\nTHe internet has PRACTICAL BENEFIT.  \nTHis has NO PRACTICAL BENEFIT.  \n\n\nAll this is is an online ledger of which WE ALREADY HAVE BETTER EXAMPLES OF.  \n\n\n\"People dismissed the internet\" so what? Can this be anything more than an online ledger that is LESS PRACTICAL than what we already have?", "replies": [{"id": "hu6u54p", "text": "&gt; THis has NO PRACTICAL BENEFIT.\n\nOf course it has many benefits. \n\nRead this comment section.  There are municipalities using index cards as title records. \n\nPermanent records on an immutable ledger offer an enormous benefit. \n\nAll caps does not make your case any better.  Neither does it demonstrate your claims of better options.  Perhaps you\u2019d share?", "replies": [{"id": "hu6v2k3", "text": "A sql database.  \nAn escrowe.  \nA microsoft sharepoint database.  \nliterally any proprietary software that can store data....\n\nCan it be edited on an \"immutable ledger\"?  \nIt takes time to be placed on a ledger.. it costs a lot of energy.  \nIt needs to be able to be edited as legal documents often are... are you just going to keep changing what it strored on a ledger? How? That defeats the purpose of it being \"immutable\".  \n\n\nThis is far less practical and does not provide any practical benefit...  \n\n\nCan you list your \"many benefits\"?", "replies": [{"id": "hu6wcdo", "text": "But none of this is better. \n\nDigitizing records and transferring to a blockchain is not even complex. \n\nHow secure do you find SQL?  \n\nAnd yes, the entries on the blockchain are connected to all subsequent related entries, providing a programmatical means of verification\u2026 not human error prone running of title.\n\nIt sounds like you\u2019ve been misinformed completely:  your comments, solutions, and questions clearly indicate you don\u2019t understand the fundamentals \u2014 this is not a criticism, everyone begins somewhere.\n\nBut before misinforming others, take some time to get familiar with the facts of the protocol, then decide. \n\nIt\u2019s not meant as ridicule, don\u2019t take offense.  I\u2019ve studied it since 2013. \n\nBeforehand, I didn\u2019t even fully understand the Byzantine Generals Problem, or why high level computer programmers thought it may be unsolvable. \n\nBlockchain solved it, and the many benefits all flow from there. \n\nStart with the original white paper \u2014 I can link it if you haven\u2019t read it.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6wll3", "text": "dude give it up.  \n\n\nyour doggie coins, NFTs and other bullshit has NO intrinsic value and solves no \"problems\". Give it up.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6x4jf", "text": "Sorry, I confused you with someone who could learn\n\n\nI should have known otherwise \u2026\n\nSQL?  lmao.    Please link to your secure SQL and we\u2019ll see how secure it is. lol. I beg you, please.\n\nAnyway, you are obviously far more intelligent than the tens of thousands of coders working on blockchain\u2026 we\u2019re fortunate to have you.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6xdza", "text": "The world does not need this.  \n\n\nKeep wasting your time.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6xvko", "text": "So, you aren\u2019t confident in that SQL database?\n\n\nShocked, I\u2019m just shocked.\n\nAgain, you are smarter than all those armies of coders  who don\u2019t even bother to make jokes about SQL because it\u2019s not 2003.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6y0h9", "text": "Lol.", "replies": [], "depth": 13}], "depth": 12}], "depth": 11}], "depth": 10}], "depth": 9}, {"id": "hu7oo5a", "text": "please share link to whitepaper", "replies": [], "depth": 9}], "depth": 8}], "depth": 7}], "depth": 6}, {"id": "hu6uu7f", "text": "People dismissing the biggest thing in human history absolutely matters because it's an example how you're dismissing NFTs and blockchain by screaming BITCOIN BITCOIN  \n\n\nNot every vidya game system is a Nintendo, you old boomer", "replies": [{"id": "hu6vc79", "text": "Lol.", "replies": [], "depth": 7}, {"id": "hu6xil0", "text": "It gets better, he also rants about \u201cdoggie coin\u201d\n\nBut he thinks a SQL database is superior to blockchain for security. \n\nI had to check the calendar  to see if it was already April 1st.  \n\nOr 1998.", "replies": [], "depth": 7}, {"id": "hu83fg4", "text": "Imagine thinking an append-only database is the biggest thing in human history lmfao", "replies": [{"id": "hu8ejbl", "text": "The internet. The internet is the biggest thing in human history. Try to follow the conversation.", "replies": [], "depth": 8}], "depth": 7}], "depth": 6}], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}, {"id": "hu839uq", "text": "Lmfao.  Still waiting to hear a single use case of blockchain that isn't already done 100x better by existing technology.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu6e95b", "text": "So unnecessary. There are better simpler systems like the Torrens system used in most of Canada, Australia, Dominican etc.\n\nIt needs to be unified by the state of federal government, you can't have random realtors using random nft systems.", "replies": [{"id": "hu6r1wi", "text": "I think Australia also uses the Torrens system.  It\u2019s like a car title, in principle.", "replies": [{"id": "hu7p2in", "text": "Australia uses it. A record of the title is held in a number of central offices, which coordinate to make sure their systems are up to date. If any central register burns down there are backups etc.\n\nYou can do a  title search with the central register.\n\nThe central register provides some insurance against fraud.", "replies": [{"id": "hu9a6jd", "text": "I never looked at it this way but I suppose the Torrens system is just a centralized ledger/\u201cblockchain\u201d. \n\nI think the more interesting applications for registering title on blockchain would be easier to manage fractional ownership of property. It would require buy in from tax authorities but it would be more transparent and make their life easier.", "replies": [{"id": "hu9pr01", "text": "We actually have it distributed here in BC. LTSA has redundant datacenters. They used to maintain triplicate registries (different locations) that were paper copies in the old days.", "replies": [], "depth": 5}], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu6mj33", "text": "I would bet every penny I have and can beg borrow or steal against this happening in 10 years. Does this person know how this industry actually works?", "replies": [{"id": "hu6s1ke", "text": "I think it was Bill Gates who said we overestimate change in the short run, and vastly underestimate it in the long run. \n\nIt will take monumental effort to change our systems \u2014 much in the way it continues to be in a similarly complex environment like health care.  But it will eventually come about.  \n\nTen years is terribly optimistic, whereas say, a hundred years is far too pessimistic.", "replies": [{"id": "hug27m7", "text": "This is insightful. When we see a \"proof of concept\" demo, then a product actually being marketed, perhaps it is time to pay attention. When the first county signs up, definitely pay attention. \n\nPerhaps one example of the Bill Gates quote would be adoption of renewable energy tech. The scale is so vast that \"quick\" renewable energy goals are rarely met. Yet each wind farm, each solar panel is a drop in the bucket that essentially doesn't turn off. We're about 50 years out from the first proof-of-concept deployments (1970's) , now coal is not cost-competitive, and in another 50 years we'll probably be 100% renewables (or fusion, who knows?). \n\nAnyway, blockchain is obviously not a physical asset so the change will probably happen relatively quickly when and if it finally does occur.", "replies": [{"id": "hug3n3u", "text": "I appreciate the thoughtful insight here. \n\nOne thing I mentioned in this thread is the audacity of some who dismiss it all and literally comment about  \u201cdoggie coin\u201d and the current cost to mint an NFT\u2026 \n\nIt\u2019s audacious in this respect: tens of thousands of highly intelligent programmers have devoted their professional lives to blockchain protocols and applications built on them.   To dismiss it out of hand is to say that I, as real estate investor / RE industry professional, can see something about this radical technology that all the high-level coders have failed to grasp. \n\nI\u2019m old enough to remember people scoffing at the utility of the MX protocol and email generally, the unlikely benefit of e-commerce, the dot com bubble bursting as proof that it was all a fad \u2014 and now the echoes are clear.\n\nIt doesn\u2019t matter that the negative cranks will  be forgotten in the end, it\u2019s just fascinating to see human nature repeat.", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hu84i1x", "text": "People in the crypto space don't really understand how any industry works.  They fling shit at the wall trying to find something that sticks, unfortunately for them, blockchain is a huge ball of stinky, slippery shit that isn't going to stick to anything.", "replies": [{"id": "hu9098c", "text": "Blockchain is an interesting technology. Shared ledger database, simple binary contract enforcement with Ethereum, and potential (not current) examples of low transaction costs.\n\nBest implementation I could is replacing check and credit card clearing with a shared private database amount banks and eventually opening it up to a digital currency issued by the federal reserve because post Covid many shops stopped accepting cash.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu6uhd0", "text": "So this might be controversial but she can can take it and blow it out her ass. NTFs are a scam. Blockchain technology is a new hype. It has a place but everyone wants to be a part in anyway they can even if it\u2019s foolish. Just look at RIOT.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu6w6m9", "text": "10? Nah, minimum speed of Government is like 7 years per idea to get threw all the voting and then get implemented. It takes years to build the systems to handle the basics and thats for things with decades of fighting behind it that are even more obviously beneficial. Weed. Healthcare.  \n\n\n20? Sure. 5-10 years of privatized benefits being realized. A few more for fighting just for a vote during a couple changes of President. Some backwards pedo work by the Republicans to keep it privatized while everyone holds their favorite stocks and don't want to lose money and then implementation once accepted. Ez Pz  \n\n\nOr Zillow secretly buys all the housing price websites like the Used Car Industry has and they can inflate home prices while cashing in decade after decade of private sales and Senators in their pockets.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu6xnxo", "text": "Cool. Then what happens when someone loses their NFT key? Nobody can own the property ever again?", "replies": [{"id": "hu72il0", "text": "Oops,  typo\u2026. Can\u2019t get the validators to agree?  That\u2019s a fork", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hu7o9o1", "text": "as a real estate attorney id love to see the first quiet title action requesting a court order that can be put on the blockchain.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hu84jkk", "text": "SFYL", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hu8cwtw", "text": "Yes, which means it\u2019s deflationary. This is good for the RE market:\n\n1. People lose keys, or die without giving them to someone else\n2. Houses become abandoned\n3. More houses need to be built \n4. Prices increase\n5. Profit\n\nAlso keep in mind that one day there will be a smart developer who will invent a better blockchain. One that can be controlled by a central authority. You know, pretty much like a database, but with some aspects of the blockchain in it.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "hu9dtfd", "text": "Multi sig solves this", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu75v32", "text": "I get lots of horrible bullshit appraisals that I do not want associated with my home\u2019s titles. \nI\u2019d say stick with public record documents only. The other stuff is just going to muddy the waters on a homes title.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu7blwg", "text": "LOL, yeah I wish but no way this will happen.  Every court system, county, GIS system is different.  Even if they wanted to, no way it could happen as quick as 10 years.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu7i9b5", "text": "That\u2019s great but I think she is under estimating the pace and willingness for change and innovation that many established stakeholders who run a vast majority of transactions are willing to embrace crypto. I\u2019m a fan of nfts especially in title transactions and property transfers but I don\u2019t foresee it being common until those players understand it and see the benefits.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu7q9jr", "text": "lol - She should work with Cathie Wood from ARK. This is a another completely disconnected mindset from reality.\n\nCould there be some, sure, as a proof of concept. But like 5 years later, we are still not paying regular things in bitcoin, except for the occasional pizza.\n\nAnd NFT does not go well with a safe hosting environment and privacy aware. Do I want my address, phone number, social security number, and signature for all to see?", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu86znz", "text": "This is like the equivalent of going from horse riding to gas powered cars.. lots of pushback until Mass adoption\u2026 it will happen but it won\u2019t happen anytime soon until gas fees on ethereum can be resolved down to 5-15 cents a transaction", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu8r35z", "text": "Had to get a plat recorded at a county clerk's office this morning. It took a team of 6 county staff to record the document and watch me fill out the cover sheet. 30 minutes. I recently had to drive my ass 1 hr to (and 1 hr back) just request a printed &amp; stamped deed for utility easement purposes, even though the scanned document is already available online. The use case for smart contracts / blockchain is abundantly clear to me, but government and other entities are in no way ready to make any sort of transition to blockchain, etc.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu8y7u9", "text": "In 10 years?  That would be great.  I don\u2019t see it happening that soon though.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu9e8l2", "text": "I think title and escrow companies will definitely be hit the hardest by blockchain technology (in RE industry) and either become obsolete or forced to addopt it. \n\nThe folks that are clinging on to the ol fashioned way of paper filing will be phased out in the next few decades. \n\nMay not happen in the next ten years, but it will happen.\n\nEdit: spelling", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hu9fuin", "text": "Complete nonsense.  Anything digital will do the trick, blockchain and NFTs have nothing to do with it.  Try hosting a PDF of your purchase documents on the blockchain.  Right now we only have text, links and a few pixels for a reason.  She's probably trying to scam some people out of their money until people realize how useless all these buzzwords are when they're only used to sell things to people who don't understand what they're buying.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "huabay1", "text": "I added a second story- now i have to mint my info again? This is kinda dumb", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "hualmdo", "text": "Is there even incentive for counties to become more efficient? Genuine question", "replies": [{"id": "hut96cf", "text": "I don't think there is any incentive for probably 80-90% of counties to get more efficient. Specifically the rural counties where there isn't enough transactions to justify such a large upgrade.\n\nIn fact, I think there's probably more reason to not upgrade. It would be far to costly compared to the tangible cost savings.\n\nNot to mention that you're trying to get Bob and Susan, who think flip phones are new technology, to shell out taxes for it.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]