Hustles
Chris Atkin buys tired car washes and tries to fix the numbers
After a short WWE run, Chris Atkin learned his uncle's car wash from the bays up. He tells Upflip he now targets washes the last owner had given up on.
Chris Atkin did not grow up planning to own car washes. He saved in Melbourne for a shot at the United States, spent a couple of years in WWE around a $45,000 paycheck and got cut.
Back in Los Angeles without a plan, he stepped into his uncle's wash. The early work was bays, equipment and the ordinary day. The numbers came later.
He started noticing washes where the owner had checked out. His pitch is to buy those, not the polished ones. He says a rebuilt location can do about $80,000 a month when it is run instead of ignored.
Bays before a buying spree
The Upflip episode stays on what a struggling wash actually looks like: dirty equipment, a tired owner and a location people still drive past.
The monthly figure is his account of the washes that work. The start was an uncle's bay after a wrestling cut.
