Our building has 4 washers and dryers in the basement (50 apartments in our building). The management has a credit card type set up. It is a $1 a wash and $.75 for 45 minutes. I live on the third floor of 3 story building. It works great.

We used to go to a laundry mat and lose money, waste time and rush.
There is one near us but after our prior experiences, nothing beats the convience of doing laundry in the basement.
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Yeah not an option for me (no owner laundry in basement). But, as I said, I sometimes run six machines in prarllel (there are many many machines), and this makes things more efficient than I could ever be in your basement. The power of pararllel processing.