Direct Self-Service Car Wash Acquisition For Your Legacy
If you own a self-service or automatic car wash and you’re thinking about selling, I’d like to hear about it. Direct acquisition, flexible deal structures, and 100% confidentiality from the first conversation.
I look for sites with a stable history. Verifiable revenue, whether through coin counts, credit card processing reports, or detailed P&L statements, is the baseline. I work with sellers who have clear documentation of their earnings.
A car wash’s value is tied to its accessibility, curb appeal, and traffic patterns. I look for sites with high visibility, easy ingress and egress, and proximity to residential or commercial hubs.
While I do not require brand-new systems, I do look for equipment that has been well-serviced. Maintenance history and system age matter. I account for future equipment upgrades or replacement costs upfront in my valuation rather than using them as a renegotiation tool during due diligence.
Selling a car wash is a private matter. Your regular customers do not need to know. Your staff, if you have any, does not need to know. Your competitors certainly do not need to know.
Every inquiry is protected from the first contact. I sign a mutual NDA before we review any financial information. Your business will never be listed on a marketplace. It will never be marketed to a buyer database. I am the buyer, there is no middle layer.
1. Retiring owners who have operated the same location for years and want a clean, private exit.
2. Operators experiencing burnout who want to hand the keys to someone who will maintain the site’s standards.
3. Owners navigating a partnership change or a consolidation where a full sale is the best resolution.
4. Sellers seeking liquidity now, without the time and expense of listing with a broker.
You reach out. Tell me the basics: the general location, the number of bays, and your motivation for selling. No financials are required at this stage.
Due diligence and close. I verify the information, inspect the property, and we move to closing.
No. Selling directly to a private buyer saves you the broker commission, which can be significant. You keep more of the proceeds and keep the process private.
That is more common than you’d think. If you have bank statements, utility bills, and a general sense of the revenue history, we can work from there. I will tell you early on what I need to get comfortable putting a number together.
If you own a self-service car wash anywhere in the United States, let’s have a conversation. No brokers, no public listings, no pressure.
I am a former college athlete.
Midwest-raised.
I’m not a private equity firm.
I’m not a broker.
I’m one person operating with integrity,
looking to acquire one good business at a time.