I built this for the person who has a good job, some capital, and a quiet voice in the back of their head saying, "I do not want my whole future tied to a paycheck." This is the car wash buying process I wish someone had walked me through before my first deal.
I started with one Phoenix car wash and learned this business the real way: walking bays, fixing problems, reading utility bills, questioning seller numbers, dealing with equipment, and figuring out which deals were worth chasing. Today that experience sits behind nine operating properties across three states and the same templates I use on my own acquisitions.
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Founder’s own results. Not typical, not a promise of your results — see the full disclaimer.
One operating view for every wash. Review daily performance, equipment signals, revenue trends, and portfolio alerts in a focused owner dashboard. Wash Ops is separate from the Buy The Car Wash course.
This is for someone who is serious enough to do the work, but honest enough to know they need a map. Maybe you are still working a W-2. Maybe you have been looking at listings at night and wondering if the numbers are real. Maybe you like the idea of a business with land, equipment, repeat demand, and lower labor, but you do not want to learn by writing the wrong check.
That is what this program is about: slowing the deal down, asking better questions, and learning how to spot a wash that can actually support the life you are trying to build.
The first module is free because you should be able to hear how I teach before you pay for anything. After that, the course moves into the real work: finding deals, lining up financing, walking sites, reading numbers, writing offers, closing, and running the wash after the seller hands over the keys.
A candid fit check: the work, risk, cash-flow appeal, real estate, tax considerations, and lifestyle behind owning a car wash.
Estimate the real cash requirement, build your buyer box and team, compare lease and ownership paths, and prepare for financing before a deal gets emotional.
Choose markets with operator eyes: climate, access, competition, local responsibility, density, field research, and a scorecard you can defend.
Find owners respectfully, follow up without becoming noise, use public records, and build broker relationships that put real opportunities in front of you.
Understand SBA, conventional, seller, partner, and investor capital; assemble a lender-ready package; and make every source in the capital stack work together.
Spot recoverable revenue, expense leaks, payment friction, underused land, pricing opportunities, and the difference between an ugly wash and a broken deal.
Follow the water, chemistry, controls, and payment path through self-serve, IBA, and tunnel equipment so you can ask better questions and value condition honestly.
Turn a site visit into an investigation: test every revenue center, inspect safely, interview the operator, scope repairs, and write a lender-quality field report.
Rebuild the economics from evidence, normalize expenses, calculate true project cost, DSCR, cap rate, and cash returns, then stress-test the price before negotiating.
Use LOIs and purchase agreements to define the asset, price, diligence clock, seller financing, earnest money, contingencies, and walk-away rights.
Run financial, physical, real-estate, environmental, legal, operational, and digital diligence in parallel while keeping deadlines and deal-breakers visible.
Control the final handoff: closing conditions, settlement statement, holdbacks, final walkthrough, early possession, access, utilities, vendors, and the first-day runbook.
Stabilize before optimizing with a practical 24-hour, 30-day, 60-day, and 90-day plan for people, cash, uptime, vendors, pricing, safety, and reporting.
Build the operating rhythm that creates freedom: KPIs, preventive maintenance, chemistry, people, pricing, marketing, customer data, scale, and exit options.
The full journey from physician to operator: the first acquisitions, the verified Oasis close, the family cost, and the systems required to turn twenty washes into an operating company.
How we acquired ten car washes in one transaction and what happened after the wire: verified closing chronology, merchant conversion, first-weekend control, investor duty, and the integration test.
Some people just need the course and templates. Some people want community eyes on their deal. Some people want me closer to the process because they are staring at a real opportunity and the clock is moving. Choose the lane that matches where you are right now.
For asking questions, posting deals, and staying around people who are actually looking at washes.
Choose CommunityLifetime course access, every template, and early input while the program is still being built — locked in at the founding price.
Choose Founding CohortThe full self-paced playbook, templates, community, and deal board when you are ready to work.
Choose Full CourseFor a serious live deal where you want me closer: numbers, offer, diligence, financing, closing prep, and direct operator feedback through the hard parts.
Choose Acquisition Partner What's included & who it's for →The same operating experience behind the course — 20 car washes under management across self-serve, in-bay automatic, and tunnel formats, with $45M+ closed through escrow — is available directly: to owners and buyers as 1-on-1 consulting, and to attorneys as car wash expert witness and litigation support.
Retained expert and litigation support for cases involving car washes — from an active multi-site owner-operator, not a career testifier.
Because that is the lane I know best. Express tunnels can be great businesses, but they are a different game: more labor, more capex, more membership pressure, and a different operating rhythm. Self-serve and in-bay automatic washes are where I think a working professional has a more realistic shot at learning the business without betting their entire life on day one.
The course is self-paced: in-depth written lessons, templates, and downloadable tools you go through on your own schedule, with on-location video walkthroughs being added over time. New material and updates fold back into the member area, so the course keeps getting sharper instead of sitting still. Nothing is scheduled — you are never locked into a live call time.
That tier is for someone working a serious live deal — ideally with something close to escrow or already in it — who wants me directly involved: sourcing, evaluation, strategy, budget and rehab planning, and a step-by-step walkthrough to close. It starts at $4,500, with a closing success fee of $15,000 or 1% of the deal, whichever is higher, and includes a 3-month tail after the program ends. See the full Acquisition Partner details →
No. I would rather tell you the truth than sell you a fantasy. Buying a business carries real risk. The goal here is to help you underwrite better, ask sharper questions, and avoid obvious mistakes before money goes hard. You should still use your own CPA, attorney, lender, and local experts.
No. All purchases are final and refunds are not provided, except where required by law. Please start with the free module first so you can hear the teaching style before you pay.
Yes. It is month to month. If you cancel, access continues through the end of your current paid billing cycle and future monthly billing stops. There are no prorated refunds for the unused portion of the month.
If it clicks, keep going. If it does not, you still learned something before spending a dollar.
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