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Posted: 2/20/2021 7:54:18 PM EDT
Arfcom has been pretty positive on my other series, figured you'd like this new series I started today.


I Bought a CARWASH, Here's How Much $ It Makes!


Hopefully it'll help me pay for more 9mm
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 7:55:48 PM EDT
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M'lady
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 7:57:14 PM EDT
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Tag for later
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 7:58:19 PM EDT
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Say my name
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:00:18 PM EDT
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Car wash owners here didn’t think to turn off water when it got 16 degrees.
Not a functional one within 5 miles of my house.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:00:53 PM EDT
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The "hot wax" is just scented water, isn't it.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:02:38 PM EDT
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My aunt owns two DIY car washes in AZ, she hasn't made any significant money off of them since AZ made it much more difficult for illegals in that state and her clientele dropped off. She and my uncle bought them in the early 80s, it's just a matter of time until she just shutters them and sells the land.

Kharn
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:03:43 PM EDT
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Good luck. If you don’t have an attendant on site all the time, it will be for sale soon.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:03:56 PM EDT
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I'm. Gonna address that in next one. Depends on owner, I can buy wax thats $2500 a drum
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:04:03 PM EDT
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You're visiting the wrong massage parlor my friend
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:07:09 PM EDT
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You're visiting the wrong massage parlor my friend

Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:07:44 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:08:08 PM EDT
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Very cool! Are you going to fill a room with quarters and swim in it ala Scrooge McDuck? I would totally do that.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:10:00 PM EDT
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That seems like a really great way to make money.   Except if the EPA would somehow get involved
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:11:18 PM EDT
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Arfcom has been pretty positive on my other series, figured you'd like this new series I started today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt9pSsJDAyw

Hopefully it'll help me pay for more 9mm
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So to be clear....you're the producer of this video and you also sell information on how buy a car wash?  You profit to expense ratio is off....probably way off.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:14:58 PM EDT
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Neat video.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:15:29 PM EDT
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So to be clear....you're the producer of this video and you also sell information on how buy a car wash?  You profit to expense ratio is off....probably way off.
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I have 6yrs worth of tax returns to levelize historical costs, so...
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:15:39 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:17:25 PM EDT
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LOL

Came to post this. I need to just stay logged in.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:17:36 PM EDT
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Methlamine? Sounds like someone has gone Breaking Bad...Heisenberg hat and all.

Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:17:53 PM EDT
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Interesting. My boss and I have talked about buying a carwash(es) multiple times.

The new auto someone installed over by Wally World has to be making a fortune, that this is packed all the time.

Sub'd.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:18:02 PM EDT
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Is that in bucyrus or Galion close to the hospital? I didn't watch it, just saw the title page.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:18:33 PM EDT
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Arfcom has been pretty positive on my other series, figured you'd like this new series I started today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt9pSsJDAyw

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I spotted a 5 in that last stack of ones.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:18:33 PM EDT
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Hey bud, I’ve got some additional revenue I’d like to invest in your operation. If you are cool with cash money and discretion that is.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:19:40 PM EDT
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Break bad, yo!
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:20:14 PM EDT
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"Spot free rinse" is a lie.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:21:08 PM EDT
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Fun video, OP. I remember the laundromat ones.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:21:31 PM EDT
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Yep.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:22:01 PM EDT
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Quarter car wash and automatic no-touch?? Garbage. I can't believe people use those.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:25:24 PM EDT
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I was in Vegas a couple of years ago for a work thing and there was an international conference going on of car wash owners and manufacturers. Kind of like Shot for car washes I guess. Anyways, saw and overheard just as much weird shit as during Shot.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:25:43 PM EDT
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Very interesting. I have wanted to do something very similar but don’t have the balls.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:28:19 PM EDT
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Yep.  Shorting yourself $4
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:29:05 PM EDT
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Interesting. My boss and I have talked about buying a carwash(es) multiple times.

The new auto someone installed over by Wally World has to be making a fortune, that this is packed all the time.

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Was it a Magic Express?
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:34:31 PM EDT
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Lmao
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:35:27 PM EDT
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Incredible, I wish you luck in your venture!
But lose the hat, or gain a suit to match it, that hat, and that coat is not a good look.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:36:01 PM EDT
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When I go to a car wash in the winter to remove the salt residue, they're not recirculating some of the water they used to wash the last car, right?
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:37:18 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:45:06 PM EDT
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It seems you are just another one of those guys doing the tried and true "Pay me to show you how to make money"
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:50:08 PM EDT
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In New England the car wash places make a fortune because they put so much salt in the roads.  The places are bare bones, but lines go out on the roads.  The good places have heated water so you can wash when it’s below zero.

When I’m down in GA / SC, the places are much nicer.  Free vacuuming, towels, etc. but they don’t seem to get as much traffic.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:52:39 PM EDT
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Car Was USA Express.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:53:11 PM EDT
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Good to see you are still around! I watch all your videos
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:53:38 PM EDT
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Car wash owners here didn’t think to turn off water when it got 16 degrees.
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Same here, lines all frozen. Idiots
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:58:10 PM EDT
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When I go to a car wash in the winter to remove the salt residue, they're not recirculating some of the water they used to wash the last car, right?
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I've heard some do recycle their water
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:58:53 PM EDT
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Cat Pumps are awesome.. super dependable and parts availability is good..

Good luck in your endeavor..

Link Posted: 2/20/2021 8:59:22 PM EDT
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Nothing like washing your car with recycled water and a broom that every other tom dick and harry washed their car with. Imagine what's embedded in the fibers of that brush that you're washing your car with?

Fine if you dont give a shit about your car.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 9:04:09 PM EDT
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Think of the how much more money that same car wash would make in Florida or a southern state. I looked into a car wash about seven years back, a single drive thru automatic car wash cost $100k and that was not including infrastructure. The top of the line car wash with all the bells and whistles was around $200k.


Link Posted: 2/20/2021 9:05:23 PM EDT
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None of my business but isn’t it generally frowned upon to promote your own YouTube videos on here without paying to be a sponsor?

Link Posted: 2/20/2021 9:09:18 PM EDT
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Sweet fedora!  The coin collection doors don’t weigh 35 lbs.  Otherwise great video. I’ve been thinking of businesses to buy - self storage, car wash, etc.  Great  info.    

I’m a financial planner and have a client that owns 15 full service car washes and just sold them for almost $100 million to a private equity firm. Unbelievable how much money some of these can make.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 9:17:11 PM EDT
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I did a bunch of work in the self serve bays for a company around here. He had a vacuum system to bring the quarters in the equipment room, used a shop vac motor and pvc pipe. to suck the change in to a safe. It would wear out the pvc pipe at the turns every few months. He pretty generous with giving us handfuls of quarters because we knew how the counting of cycles allowed him to skim, he needed to play nice. He got audited pretty often and never got caught so his system was pretty good.

The self serves really are pretty simple.
Link Posted: 2/20/2021 9:17:11 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 2/20/2021 9:18:07 PM EDT
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A buddy of mine opened up an automated drive-thru car wash 3 years ago.
24 vacuum lanes, real nice facility.

He has broke ground on another across town, and bought land in another town to build more.

He's fuckin killing it.
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