None of it works these days. Construction prices are too high, and lending costs need to come down. 

The cost of building a car wash is in the neighborhood of $4-6M. This is for a tunnel, conveyorized car wash. It varies a lot by land costs, which are extra on the figure above. A self-serve car wash can be built but most never do, because the costs of that can be $2M+, and won’t have subscriptions, etc.    It is true…

I spoke to someone a few years ago (before Covid, so who knows how that put a damper on things) who was in the process of selling his house to coincide with he and his wife’s retirement. They were going to spend at least a few years living off of cruise ships. Florida apparently makes it easy to setup your home…

Read my post.

I actually understand this.

A gas station is a terrible use for land that you’re squatting on. Developers avoid buying land that used to be a gas station because: 1) Given the likelihood of contamination, you have to spend six-figures on environmental testing while in due diligence, and whether or not their is contamination and/or you close,…

It’s because uber/lyft drivers have to wash their cars on an extremely regular basis. Many wash their cars every day, to look as clean as possible to maximize their ratings, and uber suggests they get car wash memberships for this purpose.

They also, at least on some types of washes, are able to filter and recirculate some of the water. Others seem to use less water in the cleaning stage, opting for foams and such. 

It depends. I took my first cruise ever this past fall, 6 nights. It was not in the Caribbean, 98% of passengers were not American, there were ZERO children, the scenery was great, the food was great, there were only about 275 passengers, and most people did not speak English as their first language. It was wonderful.

Sure, but mental illness absolutely has nothing to do with being antisemitic, racist, sexist, Homophobic, transphobic, or any other bigotry.

Utter. Fucking. Bullshit.

LMAO. No one who is sincere puts out their apology on Xitter. 

Pretty sure it was just the usual crap of them preying people that will never drive back from their home state to fight the ticket.

Wrote both of us so I gave him an earful about how ridiculous it was that he pulled us for speeding in the middle lane while a steady flow of michigan residents were passing us on our left... considering how his state likes to advertise in my state begging us to come there for vacations.

As an Old® and because it contains some of my favorite actors, I submit this:

This is the correct responsible decision.

This is the correct answer. She’ll be shocked by how small her paycheck is after all the deductions (401k, medical, social security, taxes, etc.). Think long-term - dump the cash into the 401k, keep the Z as long as financially feasible, and then upgrade.

Recent graduate with a big kid office job. This, right here, is where she’ll be setting herself up for a future course that’s either characterized by living paycheck to paycheck, or by being reasonably secure and comfortable. Unless she has a bunch of assets already, like a trust fund or such (in which case, kudos for…

I know this answer defeats the purpose of this segment, but just finishing school and starting a new job is a terrible time to buy a new car (unless your college car is a POS). Sounds more like they just want something different to show off their new social/financial status. There are a lot of changes the first few…

It is obvious what “adult” pizza and wings means.