28. This 21 Year Old Laundromat Owner Has Some Things To Teach You! With Mason Klein

Mason Klein is a 21 year old making things happen in a small mountain town in California. He has taken a quite the path to get to laundromat ownership and is out to make the most of it.

Mason tells his story of how he wound up owning a laundromat and why he believes in it so much. Not only does he inspire other young investors, but also those who have had trouble taking their first step in the business. His mindset and boldness are going to take him far and he wants to share it with you!

In this episode of the Laundromat Resource Podcast, Mason and Jordan talk about:

The difficulties of the music industry in Los Angeles
The importance of financial education
Financial risk
The advantages of being young in the laundromat business
Advice for young entrepreneurs
The performance of his business
How he got two short term rental management companies’ drop-off business with no money
Brand recognition
Technology in laundromats

And so much more!

Mason, like all of us, has much to learn still. But what he has learned already, which is quite a bit, he shares with us on the show. He wants you to succeed and find financial freedom through laundromat ownership! And he wants to inspire more young people to take control of their lives through financial education!

Veteran or newbie, Mason brings something for everyone! This is a must-listen!

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Episode Transcript

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hey hey all you fellow laundromat lovers

this is

jordan with the laundromat resource

podcast show number 28 and i am pumped

as always that you are here today

because today

we’re going young mason is with us today

he’s 21 years old he owns a laundromat

and i am just fascinated uh by mason and

his story

and his mindset and just the way he’s

going after it he’s got some

awesome awesome input for anyone out

there who owns a laundromat but also

anyone out there who wants to own a

laundromat

particularly particularly

if you’re younger or if you’ve been

saying to yourself and i know you’re out

there because i talked to a lot of you

guys on coaching calls

but if you’re saying to yourself ah man

i want to buy a laundromat or i should

buy a laundromat and you’ve been doing

that for a really long time

and you haven’t done anything yet this

one’s for you mason

tells you how to go after it and go get

it so

i’m super pumped about it i loved loved

talking to mason

uh this week and i know that you’re

gonna love his story too he’s got great

great input

and he’s bringing some fresh stuff too

and i just i love that so if you’re

looking to get better with your

own laundromat or you’re looking to get

in the business mason’s got some good

stuff for you today

but i wanted to take a second and

welcome a couple people who introduce

themselves on the

introduction forums if you go to

laundromat resource dot com slash forums

there’s a new member introduction area

where you can go in there

you can let people know who you are

and where you’re at in your laundromat

journey

and go meet some other people who’ve

introduced themselves

again i say it all the time but it’s

that networking it’s that

working together that’s gonna elevate

all of us all of our businesses

and us personally um so get in there and

start networking go introduce yourself

if you haven’t done that yet

and go say what’s up to some other

people who’ve already introduced

themselves this community is growing

weeds we just passed a thousand people

this week we just this coming week i’m

anticipating

um at passing 10 000

podcast downloads this week with this

episode so that is

just insane to me thank you guys all

for listening and i mean i just i love

that um

so we’ll celebrate that next week

hopefully fingers crossed we should make

it though

um a couple oh also i need to just shout

out rob

who is probably the envy of my wife

because

rob mentioned in one of the forum posts

that he listens to the podcast at one

and a half times speed

as he walks around his neighborhood and

i told him man my wife’s gonna be so

jealous because she always says that i’m

a slow talker

and a slow thinker and uh man she could

listen to me at one and a half speed

she’d be a happy woman but rob

ah wait to do it man way to do it all

right and and a little ribbing there too

i like that

anyways hey a couple quick things i

wanted to highlight from the forums is

because i thought a couple of quick uh

cool questions came up um number one is

greg

he has his eye on a laundromat and he

wants to make an

offer he needs some help figuring out

exactly how to do that how do you

actually present an offer is there

you know maybe you have a template or

a format that you use maybe you can head

over to the forums

laundrymatresource.com

forums and help greg out with that

and in a similar vein justin was saying

um that he actually went in he’s got his

eye on a particular laundromat

and the seller basically shut him down

when he asked if

uh if they wanted to sell and so he’s

figuring

he’s trying to figure out what’s his

next step so head in there and help out

greg help out justin

with those um couple of things and i

just wanted to real quick

tom donnelly this is specifically for

you there are people who want your leads

on laundromat so get in there uh back in

that forum there’s people who’ve been

reaching out to you so get back in there

and go uh

go go talk with those guys and see uh if

you can work out a deal with them

so man so much cool stuff happening

right now

so much cool stuff going on in this

community i it just blows me away

i’m enjoying every single second of it

and i love it so okay enough of all of

that

because i really want to get into it

with mason today

but i do have one more quick

announcement it’s something that

i’m really excited about a lot of you

guys have already done a free coaching

call with me

laundromat resource.com coaching and you

can sign up for a free 30-minute

coaching call it’s awesome i do

probably two at least two or three a day

almost every single day during the week

um and so get in there and do that i’m

not sure how long i’ll be able to do

that as we keep growing

so get in there soon but i added another

option in there

and this is not for everybody but some

of you guys might really be interested

in this and if you’ve already done a

coaching call but you want to do

another one this might be another

awesome opportunity

for you but i thought that i’d throw in

an option

for another free coaching block

but this one’s on a video zoom and it

would be recorded

and we’d put it somewhere in the in the

laundromat resource community

for people to be able to go in there and

see how the coaching goes and maybe

learn from

uh what we talk about in those in those

coaching calls and be able to

kind of get a glimpse into that so i

thought that was a cool option maybe

some of you guys are interested

if not totally fine just throwing out

trying to do different things to help

you guys succeed in the laundromat

industry maybe this is one of those

things

maybe it’s not we’ll see but same place

to go

if you want to do that and if you’ve

done a coaching call before and you want

to do a zoom call sign up for a zoom

call i love to do i think it’d be

awesome

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link

and every other link that we talk about

in this whole episode today

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slash show 28. all right

that was a mouthful but let’s get into

it with mason right after this

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all right mason man hey how’s it going

thanks for coming on the show

thank you for having me i’m really glad

to be here this is so dope

hey man i i’m super pumped that you’re

here because you have got

uh man you’ve got a story and i am

excited to hear i think it’s gonna be

super inspiring for a lot of people

um because you know one of the things

you know for

that i do is is coaching calls a lot and

i get a lot of coaching calls from

people who

are either younger wanting to get in

like you

or people who have been researching

for a long time like years and decades

even

who have not yet taken action and here

you are what you’re 21 years old is that

right

yeah yes sir 21 years old laundromat

owner

and i just think it’s gonna be super

inspiring so before we get there

man tell us a little bit about you who

are you where tell us a little bit about

your background thank you thanks jordan

so as early as i can go back as when i

was graduating

high school about three years ago so i

didn’t really know

what i wanted to do with myself my mom

was you know you can’t live here if

you’re not

working or doing anything i was just

playing video games you know

just didn’t know what to do with myself

so then i finally

found out the one thing that i loved was

music so i went through the whole music

route

so i went to a college in high schoo

after high school went to a music school

in hollywood in la

so i was like driving a couple hours to

hollywood

and i just europe and big bear right

yeah well i moved to l.a

okay i moved to my my dad was living in

l.a but the traffic is wild out there

yeah if you’re not if you’re not driving

at 5 00 am it’s gonna take you two hours

yeah anywhere you know to get to

hollywood yeah

so i was driving hollywood just grinding

out the music

and that was a really that’s what taught

me like risk in a way because

that’s such a hard business to just

dip into it’s just so competitive but so

i finished

i finished and graduated um and got my

certificate

in audio engineering and so after that i

got lucky

found a job online doing um basically i

edit business um voicemails

so like uh let’s say you have a business

you know for jordan

press one for um whoever pressed two i

basically i’ll take the dog out the dog

that’s barking in the background i’ll

edit it out

so i just started doing that and i was

pretty stagnant you know like i got

comfortable but

i started learning about you know

self-growth and just trying to grow so

from that point i was still living up my

dad and

i got into the stock market and i

started working some more jobs is

learning about

um it’s all about income like your

income is basically where you’re going

to be

so on my audio job it was good but it’s

not full time

so i couldn’t just be comfortable so i

started

working more jobs i was working on a

golf course working at target

just really trying to save for something

i didn’t really know what yet i just

knew i needed to have some kind of a

some kind of a baseline for what i would

do later

and i was trying to make the music

happen because i have my own music

business

where i make um you know hip-hop beats

rap beats stuff like that

for artists and that’s hard that’s

really hard because you have to be known

scrape really well into that but um

so yeah i was just playing around with

all that stuff and um

so that’s pretty much like i was a

stagnant just trying to grow looking for

any opportunity

i remember countless nights on google

what are the cheapest businesses i could

buy

and you know pizza shops would come up

laundromats would come up

and i always had on the back of my head

and um so that’s pretty much my

story like how everything where i how i

started where it came from

um and

so where did you okay so you’re you’ve

been doing you’re working like a

thousand jobs

trying to create this base of money in

order to kind of launch your

next venture and you didn’t know what it

was exactly but you’re you’re laying

you know sometime i don’t know when when

you’re working so many jobs but

sometimes you’re browsing around the

internet

looking for businesses to invest in is

that

exactly yeah because you had all this

money that i was saving

um just because i knew because i feel

guilty

everyone has this phase where you’re

spending money like i was a kid out of

high school and i was

making decent money for my age so i was

buying like supreme shirts and

champion adidas i was wasting all my

money you know but

you get this guilt in the back of your

your head where

i shouldn’t be doing this this doesn’t

feel right you know it doesn’t feel

it doesn’t feel like the right thing to

do so i started getting into finance and

financial and i was even going to

college again to be a

financial advisor and all this with

covid

yeah you know put a block on that but

yeah yeah so

yeah i knew i needed to save something

anything it could have been for

retirement just because i

my whole the whole way i wanted to live

life was work now work work

retire early and just live a beautiful

life

with um you know my partner or whoever

that was kind of my goal for life yeah

well i think that’s

awesome and i think it’s awesome that

you kind of came to this realization

that

you needed to do a little bit of you

know financial education

out of curiosity i mean i want to hear

how that transitioned into you buying a

laundromat in a second but

um just real quick on on the side note

of the

you know financial education i think

financial education is so important

it’s something that we don’t really get

in schools

and you know it’s really something that

i didn’t get until

after i bought my first laundromat and i

started listening to podcasts as i was

renovating my my dump of a laundromat

early on um and and that’s where my eyes

really were open but what did you do for

financial education that that kind of

snapped you out of it

you know that’s a good question like you

said they don’t teach you in school and

i just came out of school so i can tell

you everything i remember

they don’t tell you anything about money

and how many works but

i just remember um my dad okay my dad

kind of got me into bitcoin

he’s like son you know what like we’re

gonna make it because bitcoin

this was before it exploded and um

so that was like a controversial thing

at the time no one really knew what

was going on with bitcoin the cryptos

you know so that’s kind of how i felt in

the stock market because

um bitcoin went crazy it went up to like

000 for a coin you know and that’s when

me my dad started buying in but then

that was the peak you know so yeah

but these mistakes we make are great

lessons

for next time so i took that as a lesson

and i said hey like what can i do that’s

not cryptos because they’re trying to

sketch

in a way so i and i just i fell

i fell into the whole stock market world

and

trading real business and so i start

playing around

and um risk is i feel like risk is a

huge thing you got to take the risk you

got to take the shot

um because otherwise you’re just you’re

not going to grow like how i was

stagnant when i was working in one job i

was comfortable with

you always try to be just doing

something

um to grow and so and that helped

um acquire my first laundromat um i got

really lucky in stocks

do you invest awesome

cool cool so i’m sure you know about

tesla uh-huh

and i’m sure you know i’m sure you know

what they were at last year and where

they’re at now

yeah yeah so i bought you know

i’m not trying to i’m just saying like

um when you have a win in the market it

really

keeps you to keep going so my big win

was

tesla and that keeps me uh motivated to

keep investing so i mean

i had i put i dumped almost you don’t

want to put all your eggs in one basket

but

you know i really believed in elon musk

i was kind of like a fanboy so i just

dumped all my money in tesla and it

worked out everyone didn’t believe in

tesla but

i really saw the vision with like the

self-driving cars and all this

so anyways i made like 140 percent

off my money which is huge which is nice

huge yeah because average is eight to

ten percent

yeah a year or so and that took time

though you know the first four months

is not making anything and that’s where

most people say oh stock market’s a scam

this is how you know this is just going

to build gates it’s going to his wallet

people like people think it’s a scam but

you just got to be patient and

i’m just saying all this because it

really changed my life and i didn’t even

think about buying a business until

the this like everything leads to

another happens here

for a reason but so yeah the

thank you so the tesla thing happened i

had you know a big number in my account

so i was like what am i gonna do with

this you know should i just keep

stacking it keep stacking it so in my

head i’m just going to keep stacking it

until

the opportunity rises or find a skill

and i can open up my own business

because my dream was to

have my own studio and like have seniors

coming in and

i record them and mix and you know

master and all that cool stuff

that was my dream having a nice studio

in la

and um what happened was cove would hit

so i was with my grandparents at the

time

because they they’re pretty close to my

dad switch between them to visit family

and um they’re they’re older so i didn’t

want to put them at risk

so i came back i went up to big bear

which is where i grew up my whole life

and so i moved up to big bear my mom’s a

real estate agent she told me hey

i’m selling this big building for this

woman and she’s selling the laundromat

do you have any do you know anyone that

would want this right

and in the back of my head i remember

the nights when i was looking up

those businesses you know and i thought

it was really cool

but every time i looked it up on google

you needed 700 thousand you needed a

million you know

for in l.a or yeah that was those were

the prices in my area

so i told my mom you know how much is

this going for

and she’s like you know less than 50 000

or so

less than 30 really depends on our deal

so i was like wow you know this is

something we can really

shoot for so i just packed my bags came

up here and we

did it and we bought it me and my mom

went half and half and

i’m gonna pay her off over the year and

then it will be it’ll be my baby

no way so that’s really exciting yeah

that’s super exciting and so cool and

i mean it it also is kind of testament

to you know

having having your your eyes open and

and you’re

like letting people know too like hey

i’m i’m

looking for something even if you don’t

know exactly what that is because that’s

when opportunities kind of come your way

uh when people see that and and your mom

had this connection

and and you guys jumped on it well

that’s that’s awesome so how long ago

was that uh so that was two months ago

oh my goodness during kobud and that’s

why i’m a big preacher for like you can

do what you want because

i ended up doing this in the worst year

we’re gonna live in our life

this is a hundred hundred plus year

event

um to happen to us so you can do

anything that you

want you just gotta make it happen

but yeah we just acquired it two months

ago wow

wow so what was it like uh purchasing it

how

was it was it a difficult process i mean

i i don’t know how much experience

really you have or your mom has

you know buying a laundromat so how was

it kind of

zero experience it was definitely

one of those things where we had my um

i have my dad and my stepfather are both

businessmen so i was able to approach

them and ask them questions

so they helped me through the process

but it’s also something that um

you know when you think about buying a

business it’s like oh it’s too much work

but when it’s happening it doesn’t

matter how much work it is you’re doing

at night after after your day job you’re

researching

um p l’s i didn’t know what a p l was

i don’t know what that was you know and

then i’m looking up like oh

um how old the machines are you know

when they’re gonna

die just all the research so um it’s

definitely

as a beginner is difficult but that um

you can definitely

find all this information online and

guide you to guide you

yeah totally and and i think you

you said it perfectly is you know it

sounds overwhelming and it can be

overwhelming but once you just commit to

doing it

you you just do it right like you you do

that research that you have to do you

find out the information you gotta find

out

if you don’t know how to do something

you either figure it out or find someone

who knows how to do it and you can just

make it happen yeah that’s what you guys

did

exactly yes dang awesome

okay well so you’ve owned it for

you know eight nine weeks now right yeah

yeah so

what’s it what’s it been like i gotta

tell you

jordan is so crazy um i feel like a lot

of people can relate to this

i’ve just the best way i can explain

this kind of like a car

in my body i’ve always had the gas i’ve

always had the feel but i never had the

vessel

to kind of drive me so i’ve always had

something that i’ve always wanted to do

inside me and i tried to put it towards

music and i love music but

that was never my car you know that was

like my hybrid

so when we did this business i could now

that was my car

so all this fuel i had i can just dump

into it and all my passion

all my this all the all the things all

my knowledge and

um i can just dump into it so it’s it’s

changed my life 100 percent um

going into it i thought it was it could

be a scam it could be a

risk you know but the things that i had

learned in my experiences was to take

the risk because it’s just a lesson

for the next thing if it goes wrong

don’t beat yourself up

you know it’s just a lesson for the next

one so because in the back of my head

when i was buying this thing i was like

what if another code

happens or what if they’re lying about

the p l or

um you know what if we’re not making

profits anymore and it’s a waste

so that’s definitely some concerns that

any business

person will have getting into their

first

uh endeavor yeah totally and that’s

super common and a lot of people that’s

paralyzing for i talk to them all the

time and coaching calls

right uh yeah they can’t really get over

that and understandably i mean it’s

super scary so

there’s no shame in that but on the

other hand if you don’t take that leap

if you don’t take that risk

you know calculate it but if you don’t

take it then nothing is going to happen

so did you yeah did you uh

what i mean what did did you do anything

to kind of mitigate that risk did you

like during due diligence were you how

did you verify

what she was saying or were you able to

or did you just kind of say

well we’re just gonna have to go with it

and see how it plays out

so yeah we made we did some check

um so

i did some recon as they would say

i showed up yeah going south you know i

showed up

pretending to do my laundry but um

yeah i showed up made sure you know the

place was in the dump and wasn’t empty

and

when you’re acquiring a place you want

to at least see what it is

that you’re buying before you even

consider it but i was there

making sure people were coming in people

were happy things were working

that was a whole nother process too

before we bought it um we

put quarters and all the machines made

sure all the drivers got how the washers

were washing

and all the different settings so that’s

another thing

that we did to make sure everything was

working

nice um but as far as confirming that

the documents were 100

accurate um the woman we bought from

she’s a lawyer so we had some good trust

in her

because everything was organized

beautifully in the p l so

right away if someone’s trying to con

you or scam you

it’s probably going to be in like a

google sheet or something you know right

yeah but she was paying bookkeepers she

was paying accountants

so i had to stack up so that was one way

to kind of

that gave me confidence that it was

legit

and then going in and making sure those

people showing up

yeah right yeah it’s not it’s not a

ghost town

exactly right yeah well how how old were

the machines do you remember okay so the

dryers are older than me

wow that’s not that hard to do in favor

right

i didn’t know this when i i learned all

this that you can

you can keep them maintained pretty well

but yeah the dryers are

22 years old okay they’re um they’re

speed queens

stack dryers and then the washing

machines are

16 gallon maytags and they were they’re

about

they’re about 10 years old okay yeah

yeah so you got in there and you know

verified as much as you could

and then just pulled the trigger pull

the trigger yes sir

yeah another thing i recommend real

quick yeah yeah is um

if you have no experience like myself

um see if in the contract you can put

that they’re willing to train you

and help with repairs and stuff like

that for at least a year or two

because um you know we ran into problems

right away and you will

run into problems um coming into this i

was like i’ll get lucky you know i won’t

need to

hire anyone to help me but you don’t get

lucky okay

you don’t get lucky drier you don’t want

to bank on it

exactly so we had washers going out we

had driers going out but in the contract

we had in there that

had to give some kind of effort in

helping you know whether that’s just

texting you know real quick how they

would fix it

so and they text me exactly what to do

and voila

you know problem solving now i know how

to do it for the next team

nice yeah that’s huge i think that’s an

awesome

awesome tip because stuff will go wrong

especially if your machine’s a little

bit older you know

it’s just gonna it’s gonna go down

that’s just what happened and they’re

used a lot and

you know stuff just goes down so having

that support

early on to help you build your

knowledge and skill base that’s

that’s awesome that’s a good tip thank

you

okay so you bought this laundromat

and you own it now first of all

like what did that feel like when you

got the keys

for the first you know that’s it’s such

a surreal feeling

because you don’t have to report to

anybody you don’t have a boss i know

you are the boss yeah and the thing that

was so

funny to me is like i gotta wake my butt

up to open this place

you know i never had that responsibility

i was a guy to sleep in like i said when

i was just starting and i was in high

school everything was playing video

games just

just screwing around you know not i

didn’t have any like i had the drive

i just didn’t know what yeah

so now yeah exactly no focus right

so now it’s like i’m waking up at eight

and i’m forcing myself up because that’s

your baby you know you’re not gonna ah

whatever and be late today

it’s like no you’re going there at eight

because people are waiting for you

yeah yeah so it’s a

it’s an awesome feeling it was kind of

unreal

for the first couple weeks you know

people will come in oh you guys are new

owners and

you know sometimes you don’t know what

to say and um sometimes they say yeah i

work here because you you want to just

you want to be humble you don’t want to

belittle others and that’s kind of

something i’m

i do the best i can because i’m a little

younger as i don’t want to come off

um i don’t want to come off like i’m

doing better just because i’m younger i

just

i happen to have followed some steps in

a certain way

um basically my my family showed me how

to do that so

that’s something i really try to do is

not to make anyone feel

any less for that reason yeah i think

that’s awesome

i think that’s awesome thank you well i

remember you know getting

the keys for the first time and then

everybody kind of left and i was

standing there like

well now now yeah

who’s going to tell me what to do now

yeah it’s a it’s a pretty

surreal feeling definitely unreal yeah

okay well tell me a little bit about

what is

uh like what does a typical day look

like for you i mean you’re dragging your

butt out of bed

to go open it up you guys open up at

eight o’clock so yeah our hours are from

eight

to eight thirty yeah okay so like i said

i’m a total night owl you know i’ll be

up until

two three um but i’m getting better now

because i

gotta be responsible people counting on

you

yeah yes i learned that the hard way one

day but

we can get into that but um yeah so

eight to eight so

typical days you know wake up um go over

there

um just if i didn’t clean the night

before i’ll do a quick cleaning of the

place

and then um i used to work my audio job

my day job i was working in the office

there so i was on site

24 7 helping people out i feel like that

helped so much

yeah just to give people confidence that

they have help

um because there’s a couple we have a

couple dryers that

aren’t really dryers or more like slot

machines

you know sometimes they work sometimes

exactly yeah yeah yeah we have a couple

like that

so i’m just giving people the confidence

that there’s a problem they just knock

on the door and literally

i’m right there to help right and if i

can’t help them i give them a refund so

yeah i feel like that really helped a

lot

um but yeah so the typical day when when

i was working there i’d just be in the

office i was working my nine to five

help anyone you know my lunch break i’ll

do more cleaning in there

um and then on when we close around 8 30

if we have some people trickle in i i

usually let them stay

later if i was cleaning because it’s

it’s all good

yeah um but if i was trying to get out

of there just so i’m sorry you know

8 30 in the night um but yeah

so that’s pretty much like a typical an

average day we don’t get

crazy traffic because we’re um we’re in

a small town big bear

city um it’s a small town and

there’s four laundromats and all the big

bear were all kind of spread out

so it’s kind of like a gas station you

know the closest one is where you’re

going to go

right um you won’t you won’t drive 10

minutes to

me unless you like me then you’ll come

drive 10 minutes but

for the most part i’m going to drive

thank you

thank you that’d be awesome

but yeah so it’s just you know you we’re

trying to make people regulars and

it’s like the closest one is people are

going to because so we had to step

up the yelp game set up the google game

um just really learning about all that

stuff yeah

so are you there are you there all day

still

or not anymore so not anymore now i’m

i’m there when i’m fluff and folding

okay um

however during my day job i’m at my

house now because a

new new renter i’m a new renter awesome

as well

congrats man thank you just all kinds of

big stuff happening over there

thank you yeah yeah that’s cool

appreciate it

what uh what what struggles have you had

so far there’s some that’s a great

question

there’s some there’s some real

struggles that you gotta just you gotta

pick your poison

on some things because it can be late at

night

and you gotta ask yourself do you wanna

clean now or tomorrow or am i going to

skip it

because it really depends if you’re

fluff and folding or not

and that’s another thing because i had

no idea what that was

and the previous people weren’t doing it

so i started

tackling that but um a struggle would be

for us is just

um keeping our regular not scaring

anyone away if you know somebody

suspicious comes in for a day that’s

kind of something

because what will happen is you know

homeless person

um will come in and i have total respect

for these people i just ask them are you

going to use their machines

like if you’re not using our machines

i’m sorry you can’t stay

yeah but um so some some people look

scary

to our regulars you know sometimes

someone uh homeless man will come in and

i won’t see a regular for

i haven’t seen one for months you know

they get scared away and call me and say

someone suspicious is here they’re

looking around all your

you know your tv and your speakers or

you know scoping the place out i don’t

you know sorry this looks

weird so that’s uh i think that’s a

struggle but

we you can definitely prevent that so we

just put in better security

cameras um this one will

track human faces so like that’s facial

recognition

stuff like that high tech i like that

it’s all about we’re trying to keep our

uh customers feeling

safe totally no because if that happens

i would feel awful if someone didn’t

feel safe

at our laundromat totally i would just

feel very

i feel terrible someone doesn’t feel

safe so for a time i was even just

um doing my work with the door open my

office door i’d leave it open so

everyone could see me

and um i would be there to assist and

they would know that place was safe

because i was right there

yeah yeah that was the main struggle

yeah i think that’s a pretty common

struggle no matter where you are really

you know the homelessness issue and it’s

tough because it’s a tough balance

between

you know setting a firm boundary um but

you know they’re also

they’re people but they also do cause a

lot of problems not just

for you and your business but also for

your customers and

you know you want to make sure like you

said everybody’s staying

safe and feeling safe and you know

because if not they’re not going to come

to your business they’re going to go

there they are going to drive 10 minutes

down the road dear

competitor right so um

has there been anything uh surprising

about it or anything that’s gone better

than you expected

after buying it those are good questions

so it’s funny i never cleaned in my life

before the laundromat

i never did laundry in my life and now

i’m folding 300 pounds every day

so definitely just if you want something

to happen

you have all the tools at your disposal

at your fingertips i literally went on

youtube and looked up how to fold a

fitted sheet

because that that thing was the pain in

my existence

i could not fold that thing it was just

a blob every time yeah you know

yeah so you can just do a quick youtube

and boom

now you just practice a little bit and

now everyone’s like

wow yeah teach me how to do that you

know so

um things that you encounter you

definitely just researches those forums

um laundromat resource and you’re you’re

incredible the channel’s great

thanks i’ve been watching you the whole

time yeah

it’s a great resource i’ve learned i’ve

learned all my fluff and fold stuff from

you so

awesome yeah well not for you but from

the from the people

yes killing it because those guys are

doing awesome and you’re doing awesome

from your hosts we’re gonna have to have

a uh fitted sheet

folding competition between between you

and mark last camp

so let’s do it we’ll see what happens

marky’s throwing down the gauntlet man

this is happening

well one question that i really wanted

to ask you because i think you have a

really

unique perspective on it is are there

any you know there’s

there’s not a lot of people your age

we’re not buying any businesses really

but you know especially in the

laundromat industry because like you

said when you go online and you search

you see these big numbers you know they

can cost a lot of money they don’t have

um and uh you know there are ways that

you can get

free laundromats um and and those can be

legitimate ways or you can get them

cheaper

um but there’s just not a lot of young

people doing this so

um two questions one is

do you see any do you see any advantages

or disadvantages of being young

and being an owner in this business

absolutely the the biggest thing when

you’re

the biggest thing in your young that you

have on your side is time

so now you have all this time to make

your laundromat

uh your empire if you want to call your

empire

just to expand and grow it you have more

time

and the more time you put in your

business that can be an exit strategy

you know now you’re going to be selling

for more

because you have to put more time it’s

going to be worth more

it’s going to be more valuable to buyers

so definitely it is the i would say the

most most important things

time having time on your side absolutely

yeah that’s huge i mean i think that

you’re right and

and i think one of the things that you

seem to be doing really well

is leveraging that time to your

advantage by

you know by working at the laundromat

you know

you have other stuff to do but you still

have that time and you can do what

you’re doing

you know from there for a while and you

can you have that time to kind of grind

you can work a day job and do fluff and

fold and

clean your store and get your butt out

of bed and open it

because you have that time right you

don’t have a family

right now and and all that so exactly

exactly yeah huge well my my other

uh questions kind of it’s along similar

lines but do you

do you have any advice for anyone who’s

listening to this or watching this

who is younger who maybe wants to get

started

either in in the laundromat business or

you know

in business in general do you have any

advice for for younger entrepreneurs

um yeah i would definitely start by

just organizing and managing your money

is huge

i forget the exact numbers but if um

there was a if you know there’s an

emergency that cost

a thousand dollars i think 90 or so

americans

would be in debt so just understanding

that

that’s scary you don’t want to be that

one of those

people and it’s okay if you are because

you definitely you can catch up and it’s

fine because you just weren’t taught

in school and you never will learn uh

never

no one sorry you never learned from an

outside source

so um what i could

definitely what i tell anyone that i me

just because i feel it’s my duty

is about investing whether if you want

to go risk

free you just go into an index account

um or a roth ira

you start like one of those accounts um

those are super risk free

because it’s all like s p 500 companies

um or you can do single socks which is a

little riskier unless

uh you do some have time for research

that’s what i did and then i found tesla

so you could have you know you’ll have

your big win and you’ll be hooked

that’s that’s how it goes in the market

you know yeah

so but i definitely it’s all about just

get the foundation

of how the money works uh my dad was

always telling me to take an accounting

class

learn all these basic business things

um just because that’s the foundation of

how your business ends in the house

because that will apply towards any

business you buy not just laundromat but

donut shop pizza place whatever you can

take it with you to any of these so

i would say that’s my that’d be my

number one tip

that’s incredible incredible advice for

young entrepreneurs but also for all of

us really like that

like we talked about already that

financial

education that you know is is key

and because you’re not getting it from

your traditional education sources

you got to go find places to get it and

there’s all kinds of places to get it

not all created equal but there are all

kinds of places you get it

maybe i’ll ask you when i ask you about

resources maybe i’ll ask you about

uh if you have any personal finance you

know recommendations yeah

absolutely so that’s a little teaser for

you

we’ll get there um well

is there anything else about your story

i want to hear a little bit more detail

about your

your actual laundromat here in a second

we have a little section called down to

business

um but any anything else about your

story that you feel like we need to know

before we move on to that

um like i like i say

and like i preach um you know this is

the hardest year for

anyone if you’re listening to this in

your life this is the hardest year for

you and

all of us this will be because it’s a

hundred year event

um so the fact i have no idea if you

told me two months ago i’d do this

no way man you’re crazy like you know

get out of here

no so anything really can happen

you just make the best decisions you can

and you just

stay humble and just um stick with that

foundation and

consistency um that’s really it and

you know it’ll work out for you there

will be a time where it comes

your knowledge will be very valuable

love it

love it well let’s get down to business

uh so you are located in

big bear california right yes so for

anyone who doesn’t know big bear

california is

up in the mountains it’s pretty much

where everybody from l.a

goes if they want like a quick day trip

up to the snow uh

big bear is the spot to go so it’s a

smaller

town relatively speaking um and

uh yeah like i said up in the mountains

so that’s that’s

cool cool spot um you own

you own one laundromat no real estate

yet

no real estate okay um that’s cool

and one of the things oh and you’ve been

in the business for

what nine weeks is that yes yes sir

that’s awesome that’s awesome

one of the things i’m really curious

about if you don’t mind sharing

is how much does it cost to do laundry

up in big bear

that’s a great question and i actually

don’t know how much it costs anywhere

else so

i won’t know if your reaction is a good

one or a bad one

so um pretty much we’re priced

to we just match our competitors

honestly

because you know it’s it’s where you’re

at it’s you’re going to go to the

closest one not to the cheapest one

really

so yeah they’re all the same for the

most part so

for our two load um 16 gallon washers

it’s two dollars

for a wash you get two loads and then

for our dryers which are also

oh they hold two loads it’s um eight

minutes for one quarter

so about a dollar for your typical

clothes

if you’re gonna be drying like towels

and all that they absorb more

moisture so that’ll be five quarters

five to six

and um there’s a really big laundromat

up here in big bear

right next to one of the big grocery

stores next to vaughn’s

and they’re priced uh their 16 gallon

machines are priced at two dollars

um they have triple loaders we’re

getting we’re going to be getting triple

loaders soon ours broke down

but um there’s our price at four dollars

for a three load wash and the dryers are

the same so every everywhere is the same

it’s just

your go which one you like to go to yeah

which one’s

probably more convenient yeah exactly as

long as it’s clean

exactly yeah and you’re not at

too big of a casino yeah yeah yeah

as long as yeah as long as there’s one

or two then that’s okay

yeah yeah yeah so is your your

laundromat

right now is unattended right nobody’s

there during the day

um at all times correct no one’s there

at all times

however i do enjoy spending my time

there yeah

cleaning and fluffing and folding so

it’s half and half

i’m gonna mark it down as partially

attended okay yeah

yeah yeah no that’s cool and it’s you

who’s doing it right you’re the one

they’re cleaning and

yes and serving the customers and stuff

yep

again leveraging that time that you have

right now

it’s going to be awesome experience for

you too you know because

as you you know expand either in this

business or in any business uh really

you know you’re going to be learning

things just by serving customers

and learning how business works because

you’ve put your time in there

that i mean it’s really going to

translate well you know whether you go

to more laundromats bigger laundromats

or some other business it’s still going

to translate pretty well absolutely 100

real quick you reminded me of something

yeah something i learned that

helped me massively it’s your mentality

it’s how you think

you don’t go into business to make a

whole bunch of money

and scam people or you know try to do as

lease work

and make as much money you go into

business to serve

your community so

going into that mentality you will have

the most respect for your customers

you will do what is in their um favor

and you’ll be thinking about them and

that will make you more successful

in the long run that’s what i believe at

least that it’s working

for us that mindset will make you more

successful i mean you’re you’re dead on

you

have learned a lesson that it takes

many people many years if they ever

learn it at all

um and i think you know that’s that’s

one of the keys to business especially

the way businesses run now

you know if you can serve that customer

and that

is your number one goal well the money

will follow right the money is going to

come

so you know you focus your time on

serving your customer and let the rest

kind of take care of itself obviously i

mean obviously you want to

be strategic about it right there’s

nothing wrong with making money but

um your priority needs to be serving

people cool

are you are you a coin store uh all

coins

yeah all quarters yes have you been

affected at all by the coin shortage or

not really

not not i i don’t see how there’s a

issue but

yeah maybe that’s because i’m in a big

sorry i’m in a bubble up here and

yeah yeah well i think it’s alleviated

some at least

okay but so maybe you got in after the

the hardest hit i’ve probably got i

might have gone lucky yeah who knows

um and then if you had to guess okay i

know you were there basically 24 7 early

if you had to guess now how many hours a

week do you think you spend

working on your laundromat or at your

laundromat

so yeah when i was working there i was

literally there

16 hours every day um now i’m there

about eight hours

six to eight hours every day um because

we just acquired a couple business

accounts with the [ __ ] folds and

um we can get into that in a little bit

because that’s like a whole nother uh

topic you know yeah um but yeah

i mean that is something i want to i

wanted to ask you about is

so there was no fluff and fold before

you got into it right so how did you

what made you decide to do it and how

did you start that because it sounds

like you’re doing

pretty decent fluff and fold business

now and that’s pretty quick

so that i have to say thanks to you

because

one of your guests uh matthew simmons i

believe

yes i heard his story at water that’s my

favorite

yep that’s my favorite episode on

laundromat resource

i watched that and blew my mind away

about the website and

everything [ __ ] fold related it just

destroyed me you know so um

previous owner at our place was not

fluff and folding for them it was

passive

and um in big bear the population’s so

low you know you have different

uh tiers of laundromats up here like a

small one will make 1000 to three

thousand a month

from the people that trickle in um so

anything over that and the people that

trickle in pretty much just pay the

bills

so anything after that is straight to

your pocket

for improvements um more new machines

you know whatever you want to use it for

so that’s the interesting thing um so

pretty much those

uh the your regulars and people coming

in they’re

there to keep the lights on and keep the

water going right um

so it’s really important to us to try to

get some more business somehow

and so um one day i was putting all the

our new google information putting in

there my

i put my phone as the business phone

totally yeah yeah just because

you know you can ask me anything call me

up i’ll be your you know we’re friends

like we’re ladies now we’re buddies yeah

yeah i’m gonna start i’m prank calling

you now

so um i was putting the information in

the next day

i got a call and basically a company

similar to airbnb

you know they called and they said hey

would you like hundreds of

pounds of laundry being dropped off or

so and i said

at the time i had no idea like numbers i

didn’t know what to price a fluff and

fold

i didn’t know how much 100 pounds really

was so like a piece of cake i could do

that an

hour you know when i’m done working i’ll

just do on my lunch break or whatever

yeah and then uh you know i finally

figured a price point so we we do a

dollar a pound

okay for everyone for um commercial

for business accounts and for uh

personal

just to keep things easy um but yeah the

first day they dropped off the

the 100 pound bag i was just staring at

i didn’t even want to move from my seat

because it was the most laundriest scene

in my life

but this is coming from a guy who had

never really cleaned or done laundry

before owning the laundry yep

yeah just you know i was spoiled in that

way had mommy doing

doing my laundry did you call your mom

up and be like hey

thank you

i wish yeah i totally just

you know i um we have a little market

next door

just got a red bull and powered through

i looked up some youtube videos and

you know how much bleach do i use on a

16 gallon

everything’s right there on google you

just got to think to look it up

yeah so but um yeah so we got

uh we right now we have two business

accounts we have um

similar airbnb their name is vacasa and

then

we have another similar

business wow rentals so they come and

they drop things off

dude that’s awesome and so did both of

those come from your google

my business listing it’s amazing

i got i just answered the phone hey

what’s up

and you know it was the head guy at the

other side

and their friend mason yeah

and you know like hey you know can we

drop hundreds of pounds off and

you know like i said no idea what that

was but i gladly accepted

and that alone because the previous

owners weren’t really doing 11 fold

for them they’re remote they weren’t in

big bear um

so it was passive and that’s fine if you

want to do it like that

that’s totally fine you know however you

want to run your business

so up to you it’s totally cool yeah

totally

absolutely for me it was like um

our lease is two years so i’m trying to

i’m trying to do as much as i can

um just in case we can’t extend it

because the whole building is being sold

right now

so there is a chance that um the

building gets sold and then after the

lease they’re gonna

want um renters in there because that’s

more profitable for uh

for a business uh for a building owner

so we’re just trying to that’s another

thing is to think about like all those

little

cracks in the in the floor um and just

be ready

because um yeah so so the whole 5 full

thing double or

income dude killer that i mean that’s so

that’s so cool crazy yeah and it speaks

i mean i think i think we’re getting

there

as an industry but it speaks to our

the importance of just doing the simple

things like

have a website have a google my business

account have you know manage your yelp

page at least a little bit

with a yelp business account you can do

it from your phone

so you know just do it get on google

maps get on apple maps

yeah we’re gonna find you yeah those

kind of simple things

um but you know if you don’t know how to

do them you don’t know how to do them so

um find somebody to help you do it if

you don’t know how to do it because

absolutely look at that man that’s

basically doubled his business

for free just by updating his google my

business page so

that sounds attractive to anyone

if you don’t have a google my business

account yet so

man that’s that’s cool so do they drop

it off on a regular

interval like regular day regular time

kind of thing yeah

yeah so vacasa they pretty much it’s

everyday

and we we got an automated system

because i had on my lunch break i was

going over there and

letting them in the office and we were

trading you know dirty for clean linens

right but then i thought why don’t i

just put in a code on the door

and then just give them the code so now

i can now i can just chill here and

actually have a lunch now yeah yeah

right

yes not eating on lunches and um

you know right yeah so that and that

that’s nothing just small little

improvements like

little all the little things they matter

they add up um

it’s all those little things but um

so yeah they drop off every day from 80

pounds to 300

and uh my girlfriend comes helps me

she’ll come and

all right so you are recruiting some

help i like that

you got to get the girl yeah absolutely

and they’re good at laundry good yeah

they’re good at laundry but um yeah so

she’ll so she’ll stuff the washers while

i’m cleaning

and um yeah and we’ll split it for the

day you know so it’s a cool little thing

that

we got going on but and then the wow

rentals they um

they bring it like twice a week they’ll

have comforters for us

stuff like that yeah um we’re looking

into getting more business

counts um i just i yeah

if you guys haven’t seen the episode

with matthew

that is the most that blew me away like

that makes me want to get a website

for the fluffing folds and all the

things he talks about is

huge that was the most valuable video

i’ve i’ve seen so

yeah i’ll link that if you’re watching

on youtube i’ll link it down below

because it really was

uh just an incredible episode and if

you’re

listening on a podcast that link to

matt’s

uh interview will be in the show notes

or you can find it at

uh laundromat resource dot com slash

listen uh is the link to

the podcast episodes there so uh with

matt simmons from curbside

uh man that’s that’s awesome and that’s

a huge win especially with the short

lease you know it’s a little risky to

have a short lease like that and not

if you’re going to have business right

in a couple years but

you know if you can get a couple years

of business experience

and you can turn a profit of some sort

in a couple years even if it closes down

you don’t get to renew that lease or

whatever

you’ve gained uh a lot you’ve gained a

lot you’ve gained a lot of experience

you’ve gained a lot of

um you know just knowledge and wisdom on

business absolutely general on finance

all this stuff so

and systems i mean even even just

putting in a

a keypad on your door so that you don’t

have to be there like that’s an

awesome system that you put in place

that

you know dramatically improves the

quality of your life because now you get

to eat lunch yeah

and it’s simple and cheap that’s like

super easy to do yeah that’s stuff like

that like you said it adds up

right absolutely yeah awesome

well dude thank you for telling us about

your business uh

that was very cool to hear about and

it’s so cool for me to hear

uh about how things work up in in big

bear

just because i never really even

considered like obviously i

you know there had to be at least one or

two laundry mats up in big bear but i

never really

thought about it at all so because it’s

a unique community

right super cool to hear about it um all

right

well we have another section we call

secret sauce

listen up it’s the secret sauce

and secret sauce is uh you know

do you have any tips of something that’s

working really well for you

that you think would work well for other

owners help them improve their business

so it’s really interesting

um we all come from different

backgrounds and different industries

so just based on what you were doing in

the past is kind of like how you’re

going to do things

in the present future so i was a big

i was in the music industry trying to

be big and you know you know be with all

artists and all that fun stuff but

something i learned from music industry

was brand recognition

um for people to want to listen to your

music they you got to have a good logo

it looks good um the names you got to

roll off the tongue

like it’s all aesthetic because that

that just didn’t want to come to you

if it looks good so something really

interesting when we came into the

laundromat business

when we were scoping out laundromats you

know what everyone’s name is

up here what’s that laundromat yeah yeah

they’re all just

laundromat that’s like if i was uh you

know making music and my

my name was music yeah musician yeah

exactly

so i was like that’s so odd well why

you know so we got a logo

um i got it on our shirt there it is all

about long yeah

i love it so it’s really brand

recognition you’re establishing no we’re

not just a laundromat we’re different we

are

something else this is a professional

relationship that we have with you

we want you to be coming back with us so

we put the logo all up outside

um our name all of our laundry we saved

that

that was the previous owner’s name we

kept it um they gave it to us they let

us have it

we thought it was a great name it just

needed the logo and the colors and

so i feel like a big thing is brand

recognition to separate you from

laundromat just the simple you know the

simple places

totally that’s huge it’s huge and again

another part of our industry that is

improving uh but you know that brand

recognition thing like you said there’s

probably more

you know just quote unquote laundromat

you know businesses out there than or

laundry or washitaria or whatever yeah

you know wash house and

you know that brand recognition is

important because it

not only you know makes you stand out

from your competitors but it gives

customers something to latch on to to

identify with

to it creates a an emotion in them and

if you can create a positive emotion in

people

that drives a deeper connection so i

think that that’s huge

um and an awesome secret sauce i don’t

think that

you’ve gotten that one before but that’s

an awesome one so way to bring the like

youth spunk and forethought of

brand recognition i love that i

appreciate it

thank you we have another section called

pro tips

pro tips and pro tips is for

people like you 10 weeks ago who maybe

haven’t bought their first one yet are

looking to buy their first one

and uh do you have any advice for them

as they’re looking to buy their first

laundromat

i think i have two things that are huge

for a newbie i’m still a newbie

but i’m a little more

um i’m a little less newbie you’re a

step ahead

yeah thank you i couldn’t i couldn’t put

it thank you

yeah um so i think something

that could be very rewarding is the

laundromat you’re buying

um for instance the one that we bought

had lots of improvement

needed to be done which means lots of

growth

which means we can kind of grow it how

we want we have that control

if you go into bio laundromat it’s where

should be in your eyes like you have no

vision for growing it you don’t see any

improvements

then basically it’s controlling you in a

way because

um you’re not affecting it the way

you’re you’re not putting your personal

touches on it your little

you know your little touches but um when

we went into this

business it needed help it needed it was

good and

i have all respect for the previous

owners they’ve maintained the machines

they cleaned

they did a beautiful job keeping the

machines going

however you know the place was boring

colored

yeah dated yeah and like i said totally

understandable when

these two people aren’t living in big

bear you know so

totally get it um but when we were

buying i saw a vision i had

boom my head just exploded with what i

want to do you know we want to do paint

we want to do speakers we want to have

music we have tv we want to have just

cool stuff right

and now that’s all in my control i can

put my touches my little touches

and um that could be another little pro

tip into that

is um

yeah here’s a bonus tip so if you are

a little younger it it’s uh we just i

don’t know why

but i just know you know we know

technology not saying

older people don’t you can still learn i

think we just grew up with that

um totally that modern age the

technology

at the time and we just we just play

with it and

figure it out i think that’s another

advantage is having technology on your

side

because i’m a lot of laundromat owners

will not want to

have any sort of automation or

technology related devices

but it can really help in the long run

and to kind of go from that my second

tip i would say

is another thing from the music business

it’s funny because music actually helps

you remember things

so i make sure to always play music in

my laundromat

because and i just play spotify play um

the playlist that we play is called um

um there’s a playlist that has

very clean music you know we play clean

music we don’t offend anybody

death metal right yeah yeah we just play

scream all day yeah

you know it’s a family-friendly place

depending on your laundromat unless it’s

you know where bikers

come and hang out then yeah biker

laundromats are

popularity but for us it’s from family

friendly place so we play clean it’s

called

top hits top today’s morning

i forget you know it’s it’s on spotify’s

thing but

so if you hear a song that you like

you’re singing along and you’re at

my our laundromat your and the brand

recognition it ties into that these all

synergize

it all synergizes with each other you’re

gonna remember the logo you’re going to

remember the smell

that we use to clean with you know

you’re going to remember

um that dryer that didn’t work but the

guy came and helped you

all because of the music scientifically

is proven to help your memory

uh while you’re listening to music you

have better memory you can

um call things back easier so and it

doesn’t hurt you know

it doesn’t hurt to have some some clean

music playing

so that’s just a little thing we’ve

we’ve been playing around with

yeah totally and i i love that because

i mean it kind of goes back to that

brand recognition thing right like

you’re

you’re creating a feeling for people

and that’s exactly what you’re saying

right now right like if you

are playing you know some clean music

it’s fun it’s upbeat or whatever

and you know somebody hears a song they

like while they’re doing their laundry

folding their socks or whatever

um you know it creates a feeling in them

and that

feeling is something that people want to

hold on to and it

creates that customer loyalty and it’s a

really easy way

uh to do that so you know having a brand

and

playing music those little touches like

that they’re

it’s a big deal you know they add up and

they are meaningful

things i think those are awesome pro

tips for newbies and for

current owners who are you know running

their stuff right now too

so man kudos that was like two plus a

bonus

geez man just giving the house away

today i love it

i love it um

uh man i was just gonna ask you

something

it was like a genius genius question

i forget what it was maybe it’ll come

back they’ll come you know i’m a part of

that older generation that you were

talking about that we don’t know

technology we you know i didn’t read it

like that

totally you know i’m just kidding

um hey well one question that i do have

that i would i’m

very curious about is do you have any

resources that you recommend

to help people succeed in their business

or in their life

and i also want to throw in you know

personal finance resources

you know we kind of talked about that

too right i’m a complete youtube

like nut job you know you that’s my

spare time so

for finance i learned everything from is

can i mention other people yeah mention

it man we’ll leave

link them okay cool love it let’s just

throw some wealth around for some

people who are doing awesome stuff on

youtube absolutely so

the one that i would say is number one

the channel is dave ramsey taught me

everything about money

um he’s very inspirational guy if you

are religious um there are some things

that kind of

money ties into the bible in a way but

if you’re not religious that’s okay

um you know methods still the

everything still works this is

interesting to see how um religion kind

of plays into business too

um some other channels laundering my

resource of course

nice hundred percent nice man and that’s

really the

ones in the top of my head i can’t i

mean really those are the only two you

need

as long as you have laundromat resources

dave ramsey that’s it

that’s it yeah yeah no that’s

that’s awesome those are awesome

resources especially if you’re i mean if

you’re looking into personal finance

i i really recommend you know finding a

couple of

uh people on youtube to listen to

about you know personal finance somebody

like a dave ramsey who has

um one philosophy of

of personal finance um you know if you

want to kind of contrast that you know

robert kiyosaki who wrote rich dad poor

dad

he is a little bit different philosophy

of personal finance

and so it’s just kind of interesting to

hear the different philosophies and

figure out kind of where you land

on that spectrum between you know some

of those guys so

pretty cool uh man awesome awesome

resources and i will

link to dave ramsey’s channel and uh

you know you’ve already found laundromat

resource you’re already like if you’re

listening to this or watching this

you’re

half the battle right there to success

go to cool man i mean this has been

awesome i mean i love the fact that here

you are

21 years old kind of looking for your

path in life

looking in in the music industry which

is this you

probably cannot be any opposite of

laundromats right it’s like sexy it’s

you know just like everybody knows it

there’s big names in it

and you know and then you got

laundromats over here that is probably

one of the least sexy businesses and you

know

nobody’s ever grown up being like hey i

wanna

i wanna do that i wanna be a laundromat

mogul

yeah not even my own kids are saying

that so

uh they all to be youtubers actually so

oh that’s cool

i know that’s fun yeah um yeah but

anyways

uh dude i mean this has just been

incredible so thank you so much for

coming on uh

one more question i have for you

is if somebody wants to contact you

maybe there’s somebody young out there

who wants to contact you maybe ask you

some questions maybe there’s somebody

you know old like me who maybe is made

up of

hip and their arthritis is acting up or

whatever but they want to contact you

because they’re just inspired by what

you’re doing man because

it really is inspiring you’ve taken some

leaps that are really really difficult

to take uh and and you’re doing it man

you’re doing it and

um but if anybody wants to kind of

either say thank you for coming on or

maybe you have some questions for you

what’s the best way they can contact you

uh my phone they can have my phone okay

yeah dude at your own risk man you might

yeah it’s all good

all right uh 909 273

5609 yeah no i’m totally open with just

um collaborating if you will on ideas

and

um business endeavors and just helping

people

be more confident in this adventure

their first adventure

absolutely because we all started from

zero

you know and you see someone that’s up

here you think wow that’s impossible

but they climbed all these steps to get

there and they will

most of the time they’re 100 happy to

help you climb those steps and yeah

i’m on the first step you know so i’ll

help you help me with that

but you know i mean but taking that

first step is

it’s probably the hardest step right

so and i think that’s why where you come

as being somebody who is super inspiring

and super valuable because

you’ve taken that first step and that’s

that’s the hardest one to do and you get

it at a

very young age

and have kind of pushed through some of

that like anxiety that well i talked to

a ton of people in coaching who

like they really want to get in the

business but they it’s just so

hard to overcome and take that first

step

because there’s so many what-ifs and

there’s just so much tugging you

you know telling you not to jump all

your instincts are saying don’t

jump um but if you want to get somewhere

you gotta jump right and you’ve done

that and so

super valuable well hey thank you listen

if you want to connect up with mason you

know

you got his phone number now he’s a

brave brave soul

uh putting his phone number out there

for you to contact him but do it man

shoot him a text shoot him a call

uh and and tell him thanks and and ask

him some questions because

you know he is doing cool stuff i can

tell you have an

awesome awesome mindset and uh

and you’re doing it man so cannot wait

to hear how this journey goes and where

it takes

it’s weird the directions life takes you

and

i’m sure you’re just at the beginning so

you’re probably going to be going all

over the place and i i love it and i

can’t wait to see

where it takes you thank you and i just

want to say thank you jordan for having

i love your channel you’re doing great

things for everybody

providing big value for newbies and

veterans

so your you know everything you’re doing

is very appreciated

thanks man i really appreciate that and

we will catch you again soon we’re gonna

have to have you back on here

uh in the future and and get an update

on how everything’s going maybe when

that uh when that lease is up and we’ll

see what you end up doing with it

cool all right man well thanks again for

coming on and we’ll talk to you soon

thank you all right man i mean mason he

just

i love what he’s doing i love that he

just went out there

and got it i love that he’s been

experimenting with a whole

lot of different um things from

you know crypto stuff to stocks to

you know businesses now and just and

just

just so much cool stuff hip hop beast i

mean everything he’s been all over the

place he’s only 21 years old

and this guy is definitely going

somewhere and i

cannot wait to see where he’s going and

i love what he’s doing with his

laundromat he had

awesome awesome advice for younger

people and for people who haven’t just

gotten started been able to take that

first step because it is really

difficult to take that first step

so there was great advice in there but

for me and again i always say

hey pick one thing out of each episode

that you can take away

from it and actually apply to your life

figure out order your business figure

out how to put

something from this episode into

practice and as we continue to do that

episode

after episode watch what happens

to us as we grow personally and watch

what happens to our businesses

as our businesses get better and better

as we just continually

improve them one thing that i love

actually two things that i love that he

said

the first is he said hey take a risk and

if it

doesn’t work out then just consider it a

lesson

and i love that because it takes the

sting out of

you know failure and you know failure is

something that i think we fear i know i

fear it

all the time and i think in order to be

successful

you just have to be okay with the fact

that you’re probably going to fail at

some things

and you might feel hard sometimes you

might feel hard multiple times

and yet every time you’re doing that

you’re learning

you’re growing and you’re setting

yourself up for success even more so i

love that he said that the other thing

that i really loved was his i think was

the secret song yeah

and he talked about brand recognition

and i

i just think that that’s awesome you

know that’s a it’s a tough thing to do

with laundromats but some of you guys

are doing it so well

and some of us i’ll throw myself in

there some of us could do a better job

of brand recognition so i love that i

thought it was a very kind of new school

way of thinking about laundromats and

i’m always looking for

for the new school ways of doing things

because life is always changing and our

world is changing so fast

we got to be able to change with it all

right i hope you loved this episode as

much as i did because i

loved it mason you rock man and i can’t

wait to have you

back on to hear all the cool things that

you’re doing um

all right we will see you guys next week

for show 29

until then peace

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