Job opportunity??

[10sec302]

I used to know a guy who washed cars for a living and he used his own trailor that had a big water tank on it and all the supplies he needed (Washwrags, sprayers, wax, soap, vacuum cleaner, etc). Anyways he would go to businesses and people would pay him to wash their cars in their company parking lots, mostly women and other people who didnt have time to have it done when they got off, etc. He would charge them $25 to vacuum, wash and detail their cars, which would take about 30-40 minutes. He'd do about 10 cars a day.......which is $250 a day cash. That's a pretty damn good job for working for yourself and not having to spend much money on work supplies. The only reason he quit is because he got himself a job out at the Chemical plants but he said the only downfall is the rain, but I figured it up and that's still some pretty good money. Actually that's.....in the neighborhood of $78,250 before taxes and thats working 6 days a week, off on Sundays. Personally I'd work 5 days a week, which would be around $65,250 and if you give/take say 20 days out of the year due to rain, that's still a pretty good income.

Anyone familiar with that or does it now, can give some tips on it?

[TOMMY]

I used to know a guy who washed cars for a living and he used his own trailor that had a big water tank on it and all the supplies he needed (Washwrags, sprayers, wax, soap, vacuum cleaner, etc). Anyways he would go to businesses and people would pay him to wash their cars in their company parking lots, mostly women and other people who didnt have time to have it done when they got off, etc. He would charge them $25 to vacuum, wash and detail their cars, which would take about 30-40 minutes. He'd do about 10 cars a day.......which is $250 a day cash. That's a pretty damn good job for working for yourself and not having to spend much money on work supplies. The only reason he quit is because he got himself a job out at the Chemical plants but he said the only downfall is the rain, but I figured it up and that's still some pretty good money. Actually that's.....in the neighborhood of $78,250 before taxes and thats working 6 days a week, off on Sundays. Personally I'd work 5 days a week, which would be around $65,250 and if you give/take say 20 days out of the year due to rain, that's still a pretty good income.

Anyone familiar with that or does it now, can give some tips on it?


thats good money but you will burn the fuck up in this Texas heat.

[TOMMY]

then again........nothing alittle sun screen can't take care of.. :D

[10sec302]

then again........nothing alittle sun screen can't take care of.. :D


lol, I hear ya.....
I seen 2 dogs on the side of the road acting like they were doing it so someone would throw water on them....

[halo/horns]

We've got a service that does it in our parking garage...

Cash America building but I don't know the service name. :o

[Swag]

Fountain Place in downtown Dallas has a service in the parking garage. I think there was also a video someone posted on here a while back about a guy in England who washes high line luxary cars, like Enzos/MC12/Astons for ridiculous prices. He does however use really nice equipment that probably justifies the prices, but if you own an Enzo I'm sure you wouldn't care about the price to begin with.

[93coupett]

I used to know a guy who washed cars for a living and he used his own trailor that had a big water tank on it and all the supplies he needed (Washwrags, sprayers, wax, soap, vacuum cleaner, etc). Anyways he would go to businesses and people would pay him to wash their cars in their company parking lots, mostly women and other people who didnt have time to have it done when they got off, etc. He would charge them $25 to vacuum, wash and detail their cars, which would take about 30-40 minutes. He'd do about 10 cars a day.......which is $250 a day cash. That's a pretty damn good job for working for yourself and not having to spend much money on work supplies. The only reason he quit is because he got himself a job out at the Chemical plants but he said the only downfall is the rain, but I figured it up and that's still some pretty good money. Actually that's.....in the neighborhood of $78,250 before taxes and thats working 6 days a week, off on Sundays. Personally I'd work 5 days a week, which would be around $65,250 and if you give/take say 20 days out of the year due to rain, that's still a pretty good income.

Anyone familiar with that or does it now, can give some tips on it?

Your thinking only about the accounting profit and not taking into consideration the cost of equipment. Then add fuel costs for each day along w/ depreciation of equip. of vehicle, equip., supplies etc. Figure that in, along with taxes, and your profit is drastically reduced. I'm not saying that it is not possible to make money but your figures are very inflated.

[10sec302]

Your thinking only about the accounting profit and not taking into consideration the cost of equipment. Then add fuel costs for each day along w/ depreciation of equip. of vehicle, equip., supplies etc. Figure that in, along with taxes, and your profit is drastically reduced. I'm not saying that it is not possible to make money but your figures are very inflated.


Oh yeah, Ive already deducted about 20k out of that figure for fuel, expenses etc. I know I wont be doing 10 cars a day either. I mean, I might have good days, but it would probably be more around 6-7 cars a day. I still think it would be an ok income, or maybe something good to do on the side

[scootro]

thats good money but you will burn the fuck up in this Texas heat."PUSSY".............


thats good money! but work isn't always steady being self-employed... i do construction repair work

[Wolferine3]

There is a company called "MARS". I cant remember what it stands for but they set you up with a place to buy all the equipment, and lists of dealers in your area looking for the service, they say you can gross like $80.000 a year if you do it there way. Do a google search. I went through like 3 days of the on-line class and it looked cool if you can be a salesmen, owner, employee...etc.
They break down the type of truck you need, the size of the water tank for X amount of cars...all of it.

Hope this helps.