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    Educating Myself on the Industry - Should I get involved?

    Good idea. If you were in my shoes, would you disclose that you are considering investing in your own and want to get your feet wet to see if you like it (essentially tell them "I might be your future competition")? Or just keep that to yourself?
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    Educating Myself on the Industry - Should I get involved?

    Feel free to look from other angles, the location is 36.286211N, 95.848790W These two images are June 2011 and Aug 2012. Somewhere in that timeframe the left turn lane on the North/South road changed some, but the traffic signal still allows ingress and egress from vehicles in any direction...
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    Educating Myself on the Industry - Should I get involved?

    I've wondered for a long time about how sales tax applies to a car wash. I assumed items from the vending machine were subject but since the wash bays are a service it may be a gray area. Sounds like I may need to check multiple states as I live near a few state borders and could potentially...
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    Educating Myself on the Industry - Should I get involved?

    Thanks for the info! No doubt I would try to do a lot different from those two, not the least of which is keeping the earnings to myself instead of sharing with the world. The tip about McDonalds is also great to know. I never would have thought that but does not surprise me at all. Is real...
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    Educating Myself on the Industry - Should I get involved?

    To Forum admins: I made the same post yesterday but not sure if I deleted it or what, it seems to have vanished into thin air. Luckily I"ve had this happen before and usually copy long-winded threads into MS Word in case this happens.
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    Educating Myself on the Industry - Should I get involved?

    Greetings, I'm new here and have zero experience in the car wash industry. I would like advice/opinions to help steer me in the right direction, meaning whether or not I should try to get involved or not. My wife and I have a 2-year-old, currently both work W2 jobs and do well enough...
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    What is this receptacle?

    I'm no electrician but interesting article on Wikipedia, looks like maybe a Leviton 5000-I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#U.S._combination_duplex_socket Thanks, Nic
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    Stainless Foot Valves

    Could be a human user who copied and pasted an AI answer into a reply post. I admit it looks a little AIey as well although the lack of a space between punctuation and next word adds a little human element to it. Everything before that I could see being generated by AI and everything after...
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