I've actually been trying to look into something similar? I have a pile of old vapes from friends/family I want to re-purpose, but don't really know where to start.

and these dirty deeds weren't even done dirt cheap!

Aww, <3 I love this. Keep up the great work, naya!!

Wait, do you live in my city? Holy cow, I thought it was just us noticing this bizarre trend of carwashes popping up on every street corner...

A lot of it has to do with taxes. These carwashes are basically just real-estate parking. The formula is simple, buy a plot of land in an area you think will be high demand, plop a carwash on it to reduce taxes for owning that land (maybe pull in a few bucks here and there), wait for the land value to appreciate significantly, sell it for a profit to future development (or another person who thinks the land will further appreciate).

End result loads of carwashes doing nothing. Pretty sure it was the same reason mattress stores were everywhere at one point. You just need like 1 person to operate the store so paying their salary is nothing compared to the future appreciation of the land value.

Except in my town they are forcing useful businesses out and tearing down the buildings to build car washes. There probably is some advantage to holding land with something that produces some amount of money, but the fact that they are willing to tear down existing infrastructure to build them implies they are at least fairly profitable.

More simply, car wash equipment falls perfectly in the expedited 80% depreciation from the 2017 tax bill.

Yup, a much more simple version of the Sears model. The business was worth 0, but the land was worth quite a bit.

The business was worth a lot until venture capital ruined it.

I laughed pretty hard when I noticed the same issues and clicked the 'discuss' link and found that your post had been inundated with the comments you are referring to XD

I've used FreeTaxUSA for the past two years as well, and have been very happy with it. I'll put all my info into turboTax, and let it calculate my refund, then put the same data into FreeTax and verify it's the same. It's saved me a LOT of money.

That's exactly what I was thinking. Either the judge who issued the order or something like that.

aaaand now I have this image of our C-suite doing a Pewdiepie pose stuck in my head. Thanks lol

Pewdiepie might make more money than most of the C-suite.

who?

C-Suite is not to be named.

do we get snacks and naps? I'm in.

I like these! They're tough, but fair. Great job!