Christian Sanya is the proprietor of The Laundry Room, the latest Black-owned laundromat in PG County, Maryland.
She was capable of purchase the enterprise after just some years of saving up sufficient cash from her facet hustle doing on-demand laundry with an organization referred to as SudShare. Not even a yr has handed, and the enterprise is already incomes as much as $24,000 month-to-month income.
In 2019, Sanya, who additionally works as a Medical Laboratory Technologist, began on the lookout for a facet job after her then-6-year-old daughter was recognized with autism and he or she misplaced her full-time job, and ultimately stumbled upon the on-demand laundry platform, SudShare.
Sanya discovered that the facet hustle is certainly profitable. She normally fulfilled about 12 hours of laundry requests per day and simply final yr, she made $46,000. Despite the fact that she returned to work as a medical skilled in March 2020, she continued her facet hustle.
Sanya and her husband determined to purchase the laundromat she was eyeing for 8 years prior. It has all the time been Sanya’s dream since they acquired married nevertheless it was held off resulting from lack of funds. When the laundromat went again available on the market in March 2022, they purchased it outright for $200,000, utilizing a utilizing a big portion of her earnings from SudShare.
After practically 6 months of renovating, they opened the doorways to The Laundry Room. Sanya spends 2 to three hours within the laundromat each day, whereas her husband runs the enterprise with 4 staff.
“It’s a must to sacrifice so much to know that the place you’re going, the endpoint, goes to repay,” Sanya advised CNBC.
“I’ve given up household time, I’ve given up my date nights. I’ve given up so much for SudShare at this level.”
Sanya desires of turning The Laundry Room right into a recognized laundry model by opening extra places. She and her husband are at present engaged on their second location.
“I refuse to just accept you can’t have good service in our group,” she says. “I’m prepared to vary that and that’s what I’m doing, one laundromat at a time.”
