This book provides all the knowledge and tools you need to find, evaluate and buy a Laundromat. From offering unique strategies that will help you find Laundromats that are for sale -- even if they are not advertised -- to helping you evaluate a Laundromat by determining its typical income and expenses, calculating its turns per day and checking whether a seller is honest about his or her revenues, this book will help you avoid costly mistakes. But this book will also help you save thousands when buying a Laundromat and offers business plans, financing tips and information on dealing with competition.

Laundromats are a quintessential part of the New York City landscape: an indispensible element to many city dwellers' lives, they're an ersatz utility room shared with dozens of strangers at any given time, a moist environment of humming machines and strange clothes. No other public facility gathers so many people under one roof to engage in one of the most intimate rituals in which the modern human routinely performs, that of making clean again one's outer and under garments. What New Yorker has never experienced the dread of removing another's...stuff...from a dryer having completed its cycle in order to get on with it and be released from the temporary prison of chore.... Laundromats are as varied as the people inside. They often reflect the social, cultural, and economic fabric of the neighborhood they reside in (announcements, flags, and symbols displayed often reveal something about their mainly mom-and-pop owners), yet they additionally possess a story of commercial storefront design, inspired and mundane: the trend date of awning design and lettering; the poster advertising for cleaning; the refreshment options for adults and their charges. Neighborhood laundromats are one of the last holdouts of the disappearing storefronts of New York City as small shops are driven out of business by chains and venture-capital initiatives. Like the beloved Korean green grocer/bodega/Arab deli, someday soon there could be far fewer of these ugly ducklings, and another genuine element of New York's street life will be...washed away. Laundromatwas photographed from 2008 to 2012 and represents all five New York boroughs and most of its neighborhoods.

Now a Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas. The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstein takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of the individuals who benefit, aided by bankers, lawyers, and auditors who get paid to look the other way. In The Laundromat, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein explores this shadow economy and how it evolved, drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca - a trove now known as the Panama Papers - as well as other journalistic and government investigations. Bernstein shows how shell companies operate, how they allow the superwealthy and celebrities to escape taxes, and how they provide cover for illicit activities on a massive scale by crime bosses and corrupt politicians across the globe. The Laundromat offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises critical questions about financial and legal institutions we may once have trusted.

From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting 11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history. In early 2015, an anonymous whistle-blower led investigative journalists Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier into the shadow economy where the super-rich hide billions of dollars in complex financial networks. Thus began the ground-breaking investigation that saw an international team of 400 journalists work in secret for a year to uncover cases involving heads of state, politicians, businessmen, big banks, the mafia, diamond miners, art dealers and celebrities. A real-life thriller, The Panama Papers is the gripping account of how the story of the century was exposed to the world.

This book is ideal for laundromat owners and anyone considering buying a laundromat. Its purpose is to explain day-to-day laundromat operations, as well as, how to evaluate, buy and grow laundromat businesses. It is written in a clear and concise manner that includes easy-to-understand examples of how to increase revenue. Both passive income and hands-on management models are explained, with emphases on increasing the business' profit and value. It summarizes the process of buying a laundromat and it lists the operating expenses that the seller is not telling you about. This book is a valuable guide that explains how to operate and grow your laundromat successfully.

Laundromat Business Startup How to Start, Run & Grow a Successful Washateria Business From a business standpoint, the laundromat business model is an ideal model. Why may you ask? Think about it; you can run one of this without any employee if you choose to do so. But whether you buy or build an attended or unattended washateria, they both have their unique advantages. Laundromat business has been around for decades and proved to be one of the very few recession-proof businesses. They are here to stay. Here are some facts about this business. The laundry industry is about 70 years old, and the business has been growing steadily. The United States currently has about 30,000 Laundromats. The laundry business is pretty much a recession-proof industry, in that there is always a need for clean clothes, no matter what the state of the economy is in the United States. The economic aspect of the United States Laundry Business is that the Laundry Business offers a gross revenue per year of $5 billion. The Laundromat owner can have an income that can average between $5,000 and $25,000. If you are wondering how, well that is what we will discuss in this book. In This Book You Will Learn: History of Laundromat Business Why You Should Start a Laundromat Business Buying Vs. Building Common Mistakes to Avoid Complexity of Running a Laundromat Due Diligence Location Analysis Demographic Analysis Income and Expense Analysis Equipment Analysis Store Valuation Analysis SWOT Analysis 5 Must-Have's for your Business 15 Step Laundromat Buying Checklist Where to find a Laundromat to Buy Startup Cost to Build a New Laundromat Estimated Monthly Expense & Income Monthly Profit & Loss Statement Planning and Build-out of a Laundromat How to Get Financing Permits, Legal LLC, and Licenses How & Where to find Equipment for your Laundromat 3 Ways to increase Customer Flow at your Business Proven Business Marketing Strategies Top 3 Marketing Tactics you can try And so Much More..

Joanne finds romance at her mother's laundromat but not without humorous complications.

Aunt Lilly thinks about her island home, Haiti, and paints colorful pictures of the island while she takes care of the laundry for her neighbors in Brooklyn. "Aunt Lilly works in a Brooklyn laundromat, sorting, washing, drying and folding, all the while thinking about her childhood in Haiti. Bundles of colored laundry ('blues and greens like the warm Caribbean sea'), gurgling washing machines, etc., conspire to remind her of 'her lovely native land filled with singing birds.' Lilly is happy, taking pride in her work, and when she has a quiet moment she makes paintings based on her childhood memories. Busy illustrations in bold, luminous colors capture Lilly's joie de vivre. 'Her' Haitian pictures, full of exuberance and tropical abundance, transform her sweet longing into canvases of pulsing island life. Greenberg's work has a childlike zest and, at the same time, is imbued with a strong sense of order and design. Her book succeeds as a celebration of fond memory and honest labor. Ages 4-8." --PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY