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STEPHEN THE INVESTOR
The car wash today, repainted with new signage and equipmentThe same car wash when I bought it, with its original sign and faded paintWhen I bought itToday

Real numbers from one car wash

This month’s profit

$15,314.33

September 2026 operating cash flow, excluding one-time equipment purchases

These are my actual results at one car wash. They are not typical, not a projection, and not a promise of what you will earn. Read the earnings disclaimer.

I bought a run-down self-serve car wash. Here are the last three months.

Eight bays in the Midwest. I collect the cash on camera every week and put the spreadsheet on screen at the end of every month. The automatic bays hadn’t worked in about ten years when I took it over.

Stephen holding a bucket of quarters collected from the car wash

That’s me, and that’s one week of quarters. I collect it, I count it on camera, and at the end of every month the spreadsheet goes on screen. If the numbers below look good, it’s because that’s what the building does, not because I picked a good month.

July – September 2026

Line itemJulyAugustSeptember
Gross collections$26,754.90$32,566.70$24,770.85
Expenses$5,278.23$9,988.04$24,175.60
Net operating income$21,476.67$22,578.66$595.25
Mortgage$3,739.15$3,739.15$3,739.15
Monthly cash flow$17,737.52$18,839.51-$3,143.90

September is negative because of a one-time equipment purchase. The full breakdown is on the numbers page.

These are my actual results at one car wash and are not a projection of what you’ll earn. Read the disclaimer.

The wash

I bought it run down. The automatic bays hadn’t worked in about ten years and the business the place was built for had moved on to the competition. I renovated it out of cash flow rather than all at once, which was slower and is the only reason it worked. It’s eight self-serve bays and one touchless automatic.

See all three months, itemized

Learn to buy one

The teardown shows you what one wash makes. It doesn’t show you how to get one. The course covers finding them, reading a site before you spend money on it, underwriting the revenue against sources the seller doesn’t control, and getting a cash business financed.

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Weekly coaching

One call a week. Bring a wash you’re actually looking at, we put it on the screen, and I react to it in front of everybody. Every call is recorded and archived. No DM support, questions get answered on the call.

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