It's My 1 Year Anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!

February 15th marks the one year anniversary of opening my new car wash. Boy, what a year it has been for me. Thanks to a very patient and loving family, good employees, customer support, and lots of new car wash friends, I survived it!

The year flew by. I also moved into a new house with my wife and daughter and we've got a new baby coming next month. My old band broke up and I joined a new one. Man, I guess I really HAVE been busy.

I've learned alot, yet I know I've got many more lessons to come in the car wash business. I think I was ready for all the challenges, but I underestimated what kind of skill, guts and nerve it would take to rise up and meet them. Now I know better.

Thank you very much, everyone, for the help, wisdom, and encouragement my first year. The hard work, struggles, ups and downs, and the fun were all great leanring and growing experiences for me.

Thanks for being part of our industry your enthusiasm is wonderfully contagious!

Congratulations!!!!!!!! My Wife and I have been in business for a little over two years and are learning everyday something new. I really do think that this site has helped us out a lot!!!! Everyone is so helpfull and we appreciate it!!!! Well good luck Waxman to many more Carwash Anniversaries!!!! Also how is your new detail shop construction going?

Waxman, I read all your posts and enjoy them all. I see you are new to the industry but your experience and wisdom is vast. Like riptwentythree said your enthusiasm is wonderfully contagious! Keep up the great work online and offline!

thanks everybody! the special permit for my new detail shop was approved tuesday night at a planning board meeting. I've chosen my builder and am now in need of a commercial appraisal for the project. Next step is submitting the package to my banker. I plan to be digging in the dirt this spring! I'll add pictures as they become available.

Congrats. I am looking into staring my own business and I need some help? Any ideas where to start that you found worked best? Mostly concerned with laws and regulations for a mobile deatil business.

Why not try buying an older, existing car wash instead? You can add detailing to that business, wash cars legally, dispose of water legally, etc.

Plus, you'd have a built in customer base to draw from with your detailing. I love detailing and started out in the driveway, but my own personal evolution lead to a building, then a car wash, now I'm building a new detail shop. To me, mobile detailing sounds like a great big hassle, where you have many laws to operate within in order to legally conducy business, plus a whole littany of environmental/external forces that can go against you; rain, cold, wind, extreme sun and heat, ETC. Yes, I'm sure the costs are low; no taxes on building, etc. but I'd get a permanent building. I started from zero, so if I can do it, anybody can do it.

It's coming right up on my 2-year anniversary! Wow. At this rate, my mortgage will soon be paid off....NOT!

Still going strong. Kids are getting older. Trying to do a few things different this year, personally speaking. Gotta keep moving, keep improving.

Lets wash some cars in 2008!