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Just had a regular customer that washes his truck with me 2-3 times a week ($10-12 every time he washes) try to pull a scam on me today. It involves the stop button on the crypto swiper but the details are too tedious to list. He and his buddy put a lot of thought into their little two-for-one...

Trump just banned Tik Tok. Let's hope Twitter is next.

Haha! I may post that pic at my wash on a sign that says "This is what happens when you brain-dead M'fers dump oil in my pits!"

I locked all my vacs a year ago with these flexible hasps and Abus disc locks. They bend around the curve of the machine and are somewhat heavy duty. So far no break-ins, but none of my night lizards seem to carry crow bars (yet).

How are you guys hanging your foam brushes? Anybody doing the vertical mounts with/without floor buckets? Mine have been hanging horizontal on two J hooks and getting tired of the twin grease plumes dripping down the bay walls.

My customers are still filling my quarter slots with pesos and Chuck-e-cheese tokens. Don't think I'll be veering down that dollar coin path, just yet

Car washes are income producing properties, which pretty much defines commercial real estate.

Interesting to me that no one has mentioned capitalization rate (net operating income divided by asking price) as means of valuing a car wash. That's the first figure that most lenders are going to look at, and it's a big part of how an appraiser values an income stream. If I took my banker a...

I had a smilar situation when a cable crew ran over my water meter box and shut me down for two days while the city repaired the broken main. I had the cable guys dead to rights with video and license plates. Running over the meter, water gushing down the street and them driving off. I sent...

I hear that about 5-6 times per week. I've watched them on camera drive off without pushing the button and then claim that they did, trying to get a refund.

Who sells the D&S flex wand holders, doesn't look like you can order from them direct?

I converted an old metal paint bucket with drips and a lid into my cash carry bucket. Makes it feel a little less risky toting coins and bills around my lot and to/from my truck.

Okay, my dim light just flickered back on and I answered my own question about accounting for the shortfall. This morning a guy read the Customers Only sign I posted on my changers and then asked, “how can you restrict access to a public change machine?”

I usually have $400-500 in quarters to take to the bank after refilling my bill changers each week. I've never been short since I bought this wash. So how do you guys account for the expense when you do come up short and have to buy more quarters from the bank to top off your bill changers...

I watched a guy on camera last night dump a five gallon bucket of drywall mud into one of my pits. Then he came back this morning to vacuum his truck while I was shoveling out the pit. I pulled out my phone and showed him the video of himself. He was still wearing the same shirt from last night...

That guy obviously never got the playground ass-whopping he needed back in 3rd grade

The wash that I've just finished renovating came with rigid lances and wall mount gun holders (mounted 45 degrees pointing toward the meter box). In the first year that I owned this wash I replaced maybe 3 guns. All of them were situations where somebody snagged a spoiler, ladder, headache...

I'm getting cable service through Spectrum. The upload speed is what you need to pay attention to. They claim that I'm getting 10 MB per second but speed tests usually show more like 6-8. So far that's been plenty fast enough to run eight 4K cameras.

Has anyone gotten an opinion (from an actual lawyer) whether drive-offs from a change machine can be prosecuted as theft of service?

I haven't been in this industry long enough to know how it responds to parties in office, but bankers are puckered up right now and that will continue for awhile. They hate uncertainty. Even with stimulus moves and low interest rates, if the supply of funds is tight, that will have a broad...