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I'm a newbie, so, not sure on what I would even need to budget. Thought I'd start with the range of options. What is Cpd?

Was curious as to whether or not there is a particular automatic Car Wash bay that is preferable to others. Circling on an 7 bay SS car wash to buy but the Automatic Bay (or whatever the correct terminology is) needs to be replaced. Interested to hear the various opinions from some of the...

You have excellent taste and vision!

Excellent point and that crossed my mind. That was on my list to call them. I'll double check to be absolutely sure. Thanks!

Yes, it is touchless. It sounded very low to me as well.

Congrats to you on your project. Building a project from ground up is challenging but very rewarding. Lot of fun to go by every day, see the progress and "micro-manage" the workers. Lol. Just kidding...mostly.

I received the water bill from the owner. Here's the water gallon usage by month so far in 2022: Jan 22,000 Feb 21,000 Mar 30,000 Apr 48,000 May 43,000 June 37,000 July 34,000 To my untrained eye, that doesn't seem like very much usage for a car wash...

I've requested the last 3 months water and electric bill along with the name of the company who services the equipment.

Is there any car count per day number for a Saturday or Sunday that is considered solid? I'm guessing it's all relative to price paid but I have no knowledge basis to fall back on.

Yes, it's in San Antonio. I don't know the answer to the bay timers. The guy "guesstimated" that each car was about 3 dollars or so. Though he's a nice simple man, he's not a very bright guy. Are you referring to that Magnet trick where you wave it in front of the LED screen? I'll be there next...

Just spoke with the guy that counted the cars for me. He said those car counts were for about a 6 hour time period. The SS is a $1 for about 2 to 2 1/2 minutes each time. The drive thru prices are $8, $10 and $15.

Found a SS 8 bay car wash with one auto drive thru bay for sale. They had a guy who mans the place about 8 hours or so a day. I paid the guy to count cars for me over the weekend. Not the brightest guy I ever met but at least he probably got me in the ball park. While he was there on Saturday he...

My gut feel was that his numbers were accurate but I'm a newbie to THIS business and had nothing to compare it to. Was simply doing normal pre-DD to verify their past history and get a read on their credibility since the owner had several car washes. That's when the Broker got a bit squirrely on...

Thanks. I agree. I got skeptical when the agent told me twice that he sold a similar car wash down the street for 3 million. I checked and it was only 2.6 million. Still not bad but it concerned me that he thought I was too stupid to look it up. At that point, I had to wonder what else he was...

Since you guys and gals have already been through all this before: Anything specific to the Self Serve Car Wash business that I need to include in a purchase contract. Specifically about environmental issues, vandalism or security issues, etc etc. I know I need the bank to certify the deposits...

When I open it, pg 56 & 57 are missing. Is that correct?

Thank you so much for that link. That is REALLY helpful. This site is truly amazing!

He's provided all that but I now want to verify it. After reading a lot of posts here, it's obvious that many of the numbers are exercises in creative writing. I had 1 operator in San Antonio give me numbers that looked like a child put them together. Embarrassingly bad and amateurish. Nothing I...

In analyzing the numbers a seller is giving you, is there any percentage or formula you can use based off of Gross Income to figure out what the chemicals and soap should run you?

The data that it does provide by using a magnet, is it delineated by a certain time frame or some specific metric or does it just reset every time you collect the money?