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Greetings! i would love to hear from owners of “dog washes”, the good, bad and poopy…. what would you do differently if you did it again…? We have a front wall with good visibility, and lots of potential pups in the community…Atlanta. Thanks for your thoughts!

I’m a Believer…! Now in our 25th year, we only made the conversion to $1 tokens an CC’s in the last 6 months, and YES, it has had a significant impact on the bottom line…

Here’s what I just did…. Hope it helps! convert to ONLY dispensing your new proprietary $1 tokens. Give them a deal when they buy more….shrinkage is good… Raise prices, and use dollar increments…accept CC’s, quarters, dollar coins and your fancy new proprietary car wash tokens… MicroCoin, new...

Appreciate it. I mess with tomorrow…

Greetings! I seem to have something stuck in one of my crypto readers… It gives a thumping feeling when you swipe the CC’s, and is not working…. and I really miss the counting up…! Suggestions on how best to correct this Snafu…? The CC’s have been a positive addition, with less than 6...

Does the property offer a higher and better use down the road...? Based on average gross of $6K a month, your expenses, including utilities, insurance, taxes, maintenance, repairs, labor, etc, etc... are going to be a lot more than $800 a month... and soooo... depending on cash infusion, loan...

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Hi smallwash. 40 miles away, yikes! My 2 cents would be to figure out the current owners threshold of pain and make sure you have his top of mind presence when he is ready to throw in the towel. You want him in the mindset that you will remove his pain and take this headache off the table...

For what it is worth, my primary job is a Business Broker... (the car wash gig has been on the side for the last 17 years). I have sold lots of car washes. Many times the value was based on higher and better use of the land. Other times it was a multiple of cash flow/sales. Figure in the 3X to...

Photo's of car wash and new LED lights... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204500249019833&set=a.2903921010703.139675.1640833433&type=1&theater https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204500255900005&set=a.2903921010703.139675.1640833433&type=1&theater

Photo of the car wash. and the bulbs if I submitted them done properly...?

Update for anybody interested in LED lights conversions... I bought a test order of 12 - 100W LED corn style bulbs with built in fans, to replace my 250W Metal Halide bulbs in my wall packs. The brightness (6000K) and simplicity of the conversion by passing the Ballast is excellent. (I hope I...

Greetings..! I am about to pull the trigger on converting some (can't afford to do them all) of my 32 wall pack 250W MH lights to 80W LED lights... After you cut thru all the chaff, It seems to me the easiest way to do this is by by passing the Ballast and putting in these new LED bulbs...

For what it is worth... these are the 3 different signs that I have around the lot... Every Step you take Every move you make We will be watching you... Dance like nobody is watching... Really! Cameras and Drones in Use Smile! and at the bottom of each of those 2" by 2" signs it also says...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/nissan-car-wash_n_5208187.html what do you think...?

Thanks for sharing... In Atlanta, Bays are $2 for 3:20 (penny a second) Vac's $1 for now 3 minutes (was 4 minutes last month) I pay the neighbor (Valero) for their dumpster use... $50 a month Power and perimeter lighting is $700+ a month! Moving to LED on the perimeter lighting (currently...

My SS bays are $2 for time of 3.20, a penny a second. Vac's @ $1 for 4 minutes. Going down to 3 minutes this week.

Greetings... I have 17 year old 250 watt metal halide wall packs, in my 8 bays (4 per bay) and looking into making the change/upgrade to LED. Have any of you made the conversion to LED, and did you do retrofits or rip out and replace...? The rebates, or lack there of, seem like a racket. The...

Greetings... as a 17 year rookie in the SS car wash game, with an 8 bay wash in Atlanta, I am working on a new gig for all the large vehicles that want to use my wash, but we can not easily accommodate them due to their sizes. Specifically the food trucks, custom buses, occasional boats, etc...

Last year I switched over to the 2504 tips as they only put out 2 gallons per minute at 1000 psi. In Atlanta, were my wash is, has one of the most expensive water cost in the country so this has had a positive effect on my bottom line. the negative is, they do clog up more ofter.