just hang out and act like you're some guy washing clothes. then when the kid does it, take him in the back and tape his mouth to the quarter machine, and start counting.
At 4:53, the very last washer you collected from, you may want to check those areas for quarters as well. I believe I see a quarter in there. You always mention how excited you are to see rogue quarters in the dryers so I thought you should know you have rogue quarters in the washer coins collector areas too. :) Love these videos. Keep 'em coming!
I took my jar full of change to the coinstar machine and had a blast dumping it in the hopper and feeding then in the counter. It rejected 3 quarters so I looked at them a little closer and noticed 2 were Canadian and the 3rd was a 1964 silver one! I ended up with $112 and had it put on an Amazon gift card so they didn't take 12% of my money just for counting it.
He had it in the month review. Unfortunately the utilities are combined with the apartments upstairs so can't really tell how much the laundromat uses itself. He could look back through the bill history before operating the laundromat to get a quasi-baseline usage I suppose.
If you listen to others in the laundry business it averages out to 25% for all utilities. If you have newer machines, possibly less. If older machines more
@@obstinatejack that's hard to say. Depends on the rent and revenue (also factor in if you own the building). Utilities are a variable expense and goes up as your business grows. Rent is a fixed expense, the more you make the rent does not change.
"...and I mean coke, the drink." You know, there is another business opportunity, if you're daring enough. (Actually, come to think of it, I would watch an "Investment Joy for the Budding Crack Dealer" channel....or at least the Dave Chappelle equivalent.)
@@InvestmentJoy Would it be a wise investment, especially in NY as everything costs a lot of money. I have been looking into it but the water bill alone with rent is a lot. I like to hear your thoughts??
I used to work in a laundromat (washateria), as we call them in Texas. I would clean out the seals and lintel filters on the dryers, and find a lot of money. People would leave it in their pockets, and somehow it would make its way into the seals and lint filters.
It's kind of disheartening that so many people are threatening to hurt your business on RUclips. How petty some people are. Hope your business does well, this is a great video series, good insight to see the pros and cons of running a laundromat.
1) if you move the coin counter closer to the edge of the table you will be able to position a duck tape and cardboard chute into another bucket to catch the rejected coins.. 2) once you have a chute for the rejects you can size sort them into their respective buckets so you can get a clean sorting in a single run.. 3) consider 2nd head or body mounted camera to help speed up your count/collect operations.
Came to the United States when I was only a year old. Didn’t come from rich parents but I’ve made a lot of money running my own car detailing and car dealership with my family. I’m living the immigrant dream and having a successful road with a lot of failures on the way but failures can only make you or break you. I wanna share my journey with you and important things I’ve gone through. If I can do it I think anyone can. College isn’t the only way you can be successful and live the way you have dreamed about.
You are keeping your 'mat nice and clean, I notice right from you entering the store. Your business will improve, as will the laundromat's reputation. Keep it warm in the winter, cool in the summer, and expect constant maintainance costs as you go along. It will, however, remain a fun business. Keep it up!
Checkout YI cameras and put it near the coin pusher. I use their dome camera because I can watch my employees during the day and spin the camera to my inventory at night. You can setup motion alerts for zones and also theres a 2 way intercom. Granted youd have to watch when the alerts even they come across your phone.
Hey there. For the change machine, just zip-tie those large black wires to the back of the machine and place in a plastic box like 6" X 10" X 12". Actually get 2 boxes, so you can switch them for quick change-out and no dropped money.
Question? If people are trading in dollar bills for quarters and THEN putting those quarters in the machines aren't you counting the same money twice? If you are putting the quarters back into the machine should then be subtracted from the bills collected?
IT sure is fun to count the money, but how about the expenses? What do you have to set aside for power, water, cleaning and servicing? By now, you have the data to calculate how much power and water each machine uses, plus the average expenses to keep up the space.
Hey Investment Joy, he could possible be unscrewing a Panel of some sort to get into it or maybe pick-locking it. Check to see if theres tamered screws, lock, and panels.
We need to get a towel . And then when you put the quarters down put them in the towel and rub the towel on the the quarters too clean the crap off the coins so the sticky stuff is on the towel and doesn't go into the machine the coin counter
Hi bubba. I love your videos I own 17 laundry mats in Cincinnati and Kentucky. Keep doing your thing. But wear gloves I got really sick in July from carfentanil on quarters no joke. Stay safe.
You should think about checking in to what it would take to make all the machines take credits, like an arcade game with a rechargeable card, then you only have to deal with the money in the machine that reloads it and people will load more than they are using, giving you the money sooner.. It's something that I've thought about, I don't know if it's a good idea or not truly :)
For the sake of a hilarious video, I would really like to see you put up a scarecrow to see if it impacts the people of the rock. May be something that moves at motion to really spook em. 😆
That's a tough market you're in. Are you at all worried the town will die? Besides the mill, and one truck manufacturer, a hospital, the jobs are all retail and fast food
45ish minutes to Columbus which has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation. I could see the mill imploding, but the truck company + hospital together? If that happened it'll be mad max times anyway nationwide.
Hey I actually don't recommend the ATM be right next to the entrance. Let alone against two large plains of glass. I worked at a movie theater and they had their ATM real close to the door and it was stolen with major damages to a door and the side window.
Also had idea for your rentals . Don't have washing machine or dryer hookup in them . So that forces all the people that are renting from you to use your laundromat
@@InvestmentJoy the hook ups parts . When you do your remodels I would take the water and dryer hook ups out . So their is no water for an dryer or no dryer vent . so they be forced to take their some ware
sorry stupid question , why bother counting the quarters, just collect the bills and dump the quarters in the change machine, every quarter year do a mass count and take out your operating change put it back in the machine and cash in the profit of excess quarters. save you time. Your probably running around a 15-30% float on quarters to account on what people bring in.
I was wondering... when you put quarters in the dollar exchange, do you put an estimate and recount when you removed the paper bills to see if it’s the right amount? ( that you put in as quarters) or do you just add the quarters and let it slide? I guess it just comes out in the wash (pun intended) 😅
Essentially what I do is just compare the general figures that I have from my quarter machine compared to what's in the dollar exchange or so I have a general idea at any point what's in the dollar exchange rate
you should list the costs whenever you count the quarters/dollars for that specific category for the days they where used in until collect day, like with vending, the money spent on snacks/drinks and the money earned and/or electricity/water for those days etc. So that we get to see if you made profit or lost money.
Sp3cial1st at least quarterly when he needs to do his tax payments. I think he needs to to leave the money from the coin-changer out of the mix since it's literally a 1 for 1 exchange and not money is earned
Audio and video quality are great! I am really thirsty and wanted a Moutain Dew. Hopefully, no one takes it within the 6 hours it will take me to drive there!
😂😂 Thanks for the offer... as much as I love getting out to central Ohio, it’s probably not going to happen.
It would be the greatest crossover the midwest has ever seen!
maybe he could mail you one of the locks and have you pick it? Then you could mail the lock back?
M A#np That would probably be a waste of postage. I doubt he’s using anything I don’t have... my collection is pretty extensive.
That's the polite way of declining his cheapo outdated locks. Probably no security pins on those old locks!
It was worth a try
Something about coins in a bucket...
Lots and lots of coins
i like the bills and i don’t like them everywhere like you have in the coin machine perfectly stacked bills so much better!!!!!
Hey it's Taco! Love your channel too man.
just hang out and act like you're some guy washing clothes. then when the kid does it, take him in the back and tape his mouth to the quarter machine, and start counting.
Why waste quarters? Give him his pennies back.
I'm loving this Human Centipede Reboot.
Don't get a new bill stacker for the change machine. It's great seeing a big stack of notes when that door opens ☺
How about a card reader for the exchanger that takes say a $5 payment and spits it out in quarters
You only had two carts? That could lead to fistfights.
There's just something so satisfying about the sound of the quarters slapping the inside of the bucket.
Am I the only one that’s happy about a Investment Joy and The Lock Picking Lawyer collaboration??
when you was emptying the quarters out of the bag, I think one might've fell to the floor of onto the green pail without being counted
I saw that too.
This comment was painful to read, even slowly.
1 quarter.... 1
That’s one sneaky boy
At 4:53, the very last washer you collected from, you may want to check those areas for quarters as well. I believe I see a quarter in there. You always mention how excited you are to see rogue quarters in the dryers so I thought you should know you have rogue quarters in the washer coins collector areas too. :) Love these videos. Keep 'em coming!
I took my jar full of change to the coinstar machine and had a blast dumping it in the hopper and feeding then in the counter. It rejected 3 quarters so I looked at them a little closer and noticed 2 were Canadian and the 3rd was a 1964 silver one! I ended up with $112 and had it put on an Amazon gift card so they didn't take 12% of my money just for counting it.
Put tape over the slots on the out of order dryers so you don’t have to hand out as many refunds
They will just remove the tape. :)
There are slot locks you can buy. but i bet someone will break it off.
I'd put a sign up saying that if you put money in a machine that has an out of order sign that you will not be refunded. That'll stop the refunds too
What’s the electric bill like for a launder-mat
He had it in the month review. Unfortunately the utilities are combined with the apartments upstairs so can't really tell how much the laundromat uses itself. He could look back through the bill history before operating the laundromat to get a quasi-baseline usage I suppose.
If you listen to others in the laundry business it averages out to 25% for all utilities. If you have newer machines, possibly less. If older machines more
@@AJC4866 so utilities along with rent eats about half of revenue, right?
@@obstinatejack that's hard to say. Depends on the rent and revenue (also factor in if you own the building). Utilities are a variable expense and goes up as your business grows. Rent is a fixed expense, the more you make the rent does not change.
The audio quality is amazing keep pumping out videos.
"...and I mean coke, the drink."
You know, there is another business opportunity, if you're daring enough.
(Actually, come to think of it, I would watch an "Investment Joy for the Budding Crack Dealer" channel....or at least the Dave Chappelle equivalent.)
I'll be frank. If the RUclips Censorbots freak out over the word "Coke". Then, they will have a field day with Coke-Cola.
@@Qardo Less-so than with Heroin Dew.
“$43 minus 9 is $33 from the outside Coke machine.” Had to listen to that 4 times to make sure I heard that right.
Sorry, to get an accurate count in the future I need to take my shoes off
I would love to see that in a future video.
There were a few mistakes. Two of which were by the editor lol.
Far too satisfying checking how the laundromat is doing!
Glad you enjoyed, will do end of year profit and loss video
@@InvestmentJoy Would it be a wise investment, especially in NY as everything costs a lot of money. I have been looking into it but the water bill alone with rent is a lot. I like to hear your thoughts??
“Soda filter” damn you, I want my dang laugh back.
Super good audio and video quality love the quality upgrade man!!
Can someone define "people of the rock" and "people of the spoon" for me?
Sounds like an inside joke haha
People of the rock is referencing meth. People of the spoon is heroin. ( I assume)
Video and audio quality is EXCELLENT 👏🏽👏🏽
11:25 a coin fell into the bucket when he poured the bag into the machine
I haven't noticed any signs about not dyeing clothes in the washers.
That could add a whole load of agro for the next person if there was dye residue left!
Also liked the voice over of the footage!
I used to work in a laundromat (washateria), as we call them in Texas. I would clean out the seals and lintel filters on the dryers, and find a lot of money. People would leave it in their pockets, and somehow it would make its way into the seals and lint filters.
It's kind of disheartening that so many people are threatening to hurt your business on RUclips. How petty some people are.
Hope your business does well, this is a great video series, good insight to see the pros and cons of running a laundromat.
The video and audio is much better than usually
Is it just me or is People of the Rock the funniest thing
what is "people of the rock" meme about? googled and nothing turned up
@@obstinatejack he's just referring to people who smoke crystal meth. Apparently he has a problem with them around his laundromat
People of the Spoon is another one of his favourites lol
@@jasonwebb41 ooh, thanks a lot! i just got back from living 7~8 years abroad, and have kinda lost touch with 'merican culture. :D
@@obstinatejack no worries lol, I don't live there either I just kinda figured. Maybe I watch too much Breaking Bad
I love how you are making a small business and other people on there phones, computer, console, and other devices are helping you to become successful
Am I the only one that noticed the one coin that fell onto the floor from the bag?
Great video and audio quality. Keep up the good work!!!
Could you do another Excel breakdown for how the laundromat is doing?
Holy crap you made $1,490.50 in three days not bad, not bad at all, keep up the good work.
1) if you move the coin counter closer to the edge of the table you will be able to position a duck tape and cardboard chute into another bucket to catch the rejected coins.. 2) once you have a chute for the rejects you can size sort them into their respective buckets so you can get a clean sorting in a single run.. 3) consider 2nd head or body mounted camera to help speed up your count/collect operations.
Came to the United States when I was only a year old. Didn’t come from rich parents but I’ve made a lot of money running my own car detailing and car dealership with my family. I’m living the immigrant dream and having a successful road with a lot of failures on the way but failures can only make you or break you. I wanna share my journey with you and important things I’ve gone through. If I can do it I think anyone can. College isn’t the only way you can be successful and live the way you have dreamed about.
Why don’t you ever check the Pepsi machine in the laundromat?
You are keeping your 'mat nice and clean, I notice right from you entering the store. Your business will improve, as will the laundromat's reputation. Keep it warm in the winter, cool in the summer, and expect constant maintainance costs as you go along. It will, however, remain a fun business. Keep it up!
Checkout YI cameras and put it near the coin pusher. I use their dome camera because I can watch my employees during the day and spin the camera to my inventory at night. You can setup motion alerts for zones and also theres a 2 way intercom. Granted youd have to watch when the alerts even they come across your phone.
"Totally delicious audio" Nice to see collections getting better and better!
i love how your channel has grown!!!
Me too!
Hey there. For the change machine, just zip-tie those large black wires to the back of the machine and place in a plastic box like 6" X 10" X 12". Actually get 2 boxes, so you can switch them for quick change-out and no dropped money.
Why did you have to take your shoes off to count the coins?
Question? If people are trading in dollar bills for quarters and THEN putting those quarters in the machines aren't you counting the same money twice? If you are putting the quarters back into the machine should then be subtracted from the bills collected?
I kind of calculate the difference, I've explained it before, maybe I need to just do in every video for those who haven't seen prior
@@InvestmentJoy every 4th video would cover that. Or just make a FAQ video and keep linking that for more views and engagement
A soda filter! High quality joke!
I used to run a vending route. The changer should have kicked the pennies back. Might check it out.
Yes, it normally does, what I THINK happened was they stuck two together to try and get it to read as a nickel vs two pennies
Hey I work for the company on those buckets, gotta love the Midwest (Iowa here)
Hey Brandon, have you ever thought about converting those fluorescent lights to led in your laundromat?
Cases are sitting in back to be installed
Watched a couple of your vids and now you have a new subscriber!
Alright!! nothing but future entrepreneurs up in here
Audio and video quality was wonderfully great
IT sure is fun to count the money, but how about the expenses? What do you have to set aside for power, water, cleaning and servicing? By now, you have the data to calculate how much power and water each machine uses, plus the average expenses to keep up the space.
One quarter fell into the bucket without being counted lol
Hey Investment Joy, he could possible be unscrewing a Panel of some sort to get into it or maybe pick-locking it. Check to see if theres tamered screws, lock, and panels.
Nope, the whole freaking thing was jammed tight due to pennies. There was $35 in just quarters in there.
@@InvestmentJoy oh ok
It’s fun to watch how every week the about of coins gets higher and higher keep up the good work
Love your videos!!! Have a Merry Christmas 🎄
Audio is amazing, same with the video.
Did you notice the extra quarter that flew straight into the bucket without going through the counter?
We need to get a towel . And then when you put the quarters down put them in the towel and rub the towel on the the quarters too clean the crap off the coins so the sticky stuff is on the towel and doesn't go into the machine the coin counter
Hi bubba. I love your videos I own 17 laundry mats in Cincinnati and Kentucky. Keep doing your thing. But wear gloves I got really sick in July from carfentanil on quarters no joke. Stay safe.
Maybe you should start RUclips channel
Well dang
No, no he should not, no more laundry competition!
what type of camera are you using?
You should think about checking in to what it would take to make all the machines take credits, like an arcade game with a rechargeable card, then you only have to deal with the money in the machine that reloads it and people will load more than they are using, giving you the money sooner.. It's something that I've thought about, I don't know if it's a good idea or not truly :)
Nice leather jacket Brandon! 👍
No problem for the no live audio. I don't mind whether it's pre or post with these kinds of videos.
For the sake of a hilarious video, I would really like to see you put up a scarecrow to see if it impacts the people of the rock. May be something that moves at motion to really spook em. 😆
Idk what it is about vending machine collection videos are satisfying haha. Bunch of savages In that town for doing that to the soda machine
Would love lock picking lawyer crossover
He had 1000th segment on Thanksgiving.
lol
Only if LPL can you the pick he and Bosnian bill made... 😁
Liked and great video quality
Still got a quarter laying in the last toploader coin mech.
Woah that 4K man
Enjoy?
Investment Joy yes man
Video looks awesome and the sound seems really good. As long as it lasted. What kind of camera and sound are you using?
That's a tough market you're in. Are you at all worried the town will die? Besides the mill, and one truck manufacturer, a hospital, the jobs are all retail and fast food
45ish minutes to Columbus which has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation. I could see the mill imploding, but the truck company + hospital together? If that happened it'll be mad max times anyway nationwide.
I would say the audio was bad seeing how it failed lol. But great video any way love your channel l.
Question for you : if you are going to replace all equipment why spend the money to fix the down machines? Just wondering man!
I would think so he can keep making money until he gets the upgrades
Just to keep people coming in and not give up on the place.
Correct!
Video and audio is great!
Hey I actually don't recommend the ATM be right next to the entrance. Let alone against two large plains of glass. I worked at a movie theater and they had their ATM real close to the door and it was stolen with major damages to a door and the side window.
You miss the gap of what you put in the quarter machine from the take?
Do you ever search them to see if there is silver? I heard that 1964 and prior are worth 3.50 each because of the silver content
Also had idea for your rentals . Don't have washing machine or dryer hookup in them . So that forces all the people that are renting from you to use your laundromat
Nah, granted I no longer provide washer and dryer machines. Too many of em get broken
@@InvestmentJoy the hook ups parts . When you do your remodels I would take the water and dryer hook ups out . So their is no water for an dryer or no dryer vent . so they be forced to take their some ware
Damn the video quality is epic and you only had 2 carts??? I’m shocked there hasn’t been a fight 😂
Just imagine the lock picking lawyer picking his locks and the silver picker going through the coins to check for silver lol
That camera looks fantastic!
I'm happy you can tell a difference. My editor not so happy, lol
I enjoy the cash mountain each vlog
So when you replace your equipment. Where are you selling your used equipment?
What do you plan on doing with the old equipment? I will go to Ohio just to pick them up.
With the dryers, somr\e will run hotter and people will learn what ones they are and use them, from experience years ago
Man, I love all your videos. But, I love watching these the most! I wish I lived in Ohio, I would ask you to be my mentor
If I was in Ohio or even the USA I would go and feed a stack of $2 bills into the exchanger just to confuse the matter
"...and I mean Coke as in the drink" hahaha
Why is there one lock for the box and then a padlock around it on some of the washers?
Prior to me buying they were regularly robbed so they riveted in those padlocks.
Look through one day of quarters for silver. I would love to see that!
Why does he never check the Pepsi machine inside. He only checks the coke machine outside
Pepsi bad no one like pepsi
sorry stupid question , why bother counting the quarters, just collect the bills and dump the quarters in the change machine, every quarter year do a mass count and take out your operating change put it back in the machine and cash in the profit of excess quarters. save you time. Your probably running around a 15-30% float on quarters to account on what people bring in.
You take the notes out of the changer and class them as profit surely it isn’t??
I was wondering... when you put quarters in the dollar exchange, do you put an estimate and recount when you removed the paper bills to see if it’s the right amount? ( that you put in as quarters) or do you just add the quarters and let it slide? I guess it just comes out in the wash (pun intended) 😅
Essentially what I do is just compare the general figures that I have from my quarter machine compared to what's in the dollar exchange or so I have a general idea at any point what's in the dollar exchange rate
WOW way better video! Also the audio!!
are you ever gonna get a new coin counter?
audio sounds ok but i love hearing the sound of the coins. its like a new casino where you dont hear the coins hitting the hopper.
Check out the Beast Grip for your phone set up
you should list the costs whenever you count the quarters/dollars for that specific category for the days they where used in until collect day, like with vending, the money spent on snacks/drinks and the money earned and/or electricity/water for those days etc. So that we get to see if you made profit or lost money.
Sp3cial1st at least quarterly when he needs to do his tax payments. I think he needs to to leave the money from the coin-changer out of the mix since it's literally a 1 for 1 exchange and not money is earned
Audio and video quality are great!
I am really thirsty and wanted a Moutain Dew. Hopefully, no one takes it within the 6 hours it will take me to drive there!