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.
@@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 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.
"...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.)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
It's kind of disheartening that so many people are threatening to hurt your business on UA-cam. 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.
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.
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!
An old school trick was to shove a rag up the coin return pipe. Then at the end of the day fish it out with a coat hanger and it was like hitting the jackpot at a casino.
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.
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
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 :)
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
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.
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.
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. 😆
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.
Whatever you do, don't replace the washers with Maytag or Whirlpool "commercial" machines. Buy Speed Queen or an actual commercial brand, unless you want constant repairs.
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.
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
you cant count your washer/dryer money as income as most of it maybe came from your change machine . count your dollars in the changer,put that amount in the coin hopper and the rest can be counted as income or money "brought int" the place!!!
If you bring LPL (Lock Picking Lawyer) in you can say R.I.P. to your profits. That man will make your locks look like a hot knife through warm butter and everyone else will then know how to pick them.
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!
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.
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.
😂😂 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
Am I the only one that’s happy about a Investment Joy and The Lock Picking Lawyer collaboration??
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.
There's just something so satisfying about the sound of the quarters slapping the inside of the bucket.
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
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.
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.
“$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??
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
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.
"...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 UA-cam Censorbots freak out over the word "Coke". Then, they will have a field day with Coke-Cola.
@@Qardo Less-so than with Heroin Dew.
The audio quality is amazing keep pumping out videos.
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.
11:25 a coin fell into the bucket when he poured the bag into the machine
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!
“Soda filter” damn you, I want my dang laugh back.
Video and audio quality is EXCELLENT 👏🏽👏🏽
Also liked the voice over of the footage!
Would love lock picking lawyer crossover
He had 1000th segment on Thanksgiving.
lol
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.
Super good audio and video quality love the quality upgrade man!!
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.
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
"Totally delicious audio" Nice to see collections getting better and better!
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.
It's kind of disheartening that so many people are threatening to hurt your business on UA-cam. 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.
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.
Woah that 4K man
Enjoy?
Investment Joy yes man
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!
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)
Alright!! nothing but future entrepreneurs up in here
The video and audio is much better than usually
i love how your channel has grown!!!
Me too!
A soda filter! High quality joke!
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!
Am I the only one that noticed the one coin that fell onto the floor from the bag?
Could you do another Excel breakdown for how the laundromat is doing?
It’s fun to watch how every week the about of coins gets higher and higher keep up the good work
Great video and audio quality. Keep up the good work!!!
Nice leather jacket Brandon! 👍
Audio and video quality was wonderfully great
Audio is amazing, same with the video.
An old school trick was to shove a rag up the coin return pipe. Then at the end of the day fish it out with a coat hanger and it was like hitting the jackpot at a casino.
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.
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
One quarter fell into the bucket without being counted lol
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
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 :)
Liked and great video quality
"...and I mean Coke as in the drink" hahaha
Video and audio is great!
Watched a couple of your vids and now you have a new subscriber!
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
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.
WOW way better video! Also the audio!!
That camera looks fantastic!
I'm happy you can tell a difference. My editor not so happy, lol
That s/o to the Lockpicking Lawyer was awesome.
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
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.
Love your videos!!! Have a Merry Christmas 🎄
Why don’t you ever check the Pepsi machine in the laundromat?
I enjoy the cash mountain each vlog
Only if LPL can you the pick he and Bosnian bill made... 😁
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. 😆
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.
Whatever you do, don't replace the washers with Maytag or Whirlpool "commercial" machines. Buy Speed Queen or an actual commercial brand, unless you want constant repairs.
Yes, too many bad stories on their stuff
Hey I work for the company on those buckets, gotta love the Midwest (Iowa here)
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
No problem for the no live audio. I don't mind whether it's pre or post with these kinds of videos.
Audio quality ia great and it was definitely the spoonies
Did you notice the extra quarter that flew straight into the bucket without going through the counter?
Hey Brandon, have you ever thought about converting those fluorescent lights to led in your laundromat?
Cases are sitting in back to be installed
With the dryers, somr\e will run hotter and people will learn what ones they are and use them, from experience years ago
Nice video quality my man
Sweet
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.
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
I love watching 4k video on my 1080p monitor
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
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
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
Noti-Gang lol
"Can't knock the hustle"
-jay-z
Still got a quarter laying in the last toploader coin mech.
Why did you have to take your shoes off to count the coins?
When all else fails beat the crap out of your technology lol
Great video
Please grab the penny sitting in front of the soda machine outside😂
you cant count your washer/dryer money as income as most of it maybe came from your change machine . count your dollars in the changer,put that amount in the coin hopper and the rest can be counted as income or money "brought int" the place!!!
If you bring LPL (Lock Picking Lawyer) in you can say R.I.P. to your profits. That man will make your locks look like a hot knife through warm butter and everyone else will then know how to pick them.
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!
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.
It would be cool if you went over a week without collecting and they quarter collectors were almost full
I know it's extra work but I like this format better where you voice-over the video!
I would say the audio was bad seeing how it failed lol. But great video any way love your channel l.
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 UA-cam channel
Well dang
No, no he should not, no more laundry competition!