From Car Washes to Self-Storage Empires: How Ben Salzburg & Bill Kanatas Built Generational Wealth

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Careers, Kids & Family, Business, Parenting

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Welcome to another powerhouse episode of The Mike Litton Experience! In this episode, we sit down with two real estate moguls and community leaders — Ben Salzburg and Bill Kanatas — as they take us on their incredible journey from building car wash chains to creating multi-million-dollar self-storage facilities across the U.S. These visionary entrepreneurs […]

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0:00.0	So we exited the car washes. We built these car washes that I mentioned earlier. And we sold out our
0:05.3	position, I think, at the end of 2020 or the first part of 2021. At that point, we had four that were
0:12.1	operational. They were under the brand Wash You. Then we had two that we owned the land, took it through
0:17.6	the entitlement process. We were ready to break ground on those. What had happened is it was right around COVID. When we did the car washes, the family office happened to have a hot dog empire that they sold. Oh, there you go. And we opened up the first one and, you know, and the city came over there for the grand opening. We jokingly said when you go through there, we just be, you know, feeding you guys hot
0:37.9	dogs and fries. Obviously didn't work with the water, but yeah, the drive-through, I've got to tell
0:43.4	you, is a really, really cool and unique aspect. But we've done 800 million meals internationally
0:48.2	into the White House. We got awards from our former president Barack Obama and George W.
0:53.6	And the award for the work that our charity is done.
0:56.8	And it's a passion.
0:57.8	It's awesome.
0:58.3	Talking to the kids, getting them involved.
0:59.9	How do we teach people?
1:01.5	That's why Bill and I are giving back to the community, right?
1:05.0	You're helping out.
1:06.4	And unfortunately, people sometimes when they run, they think about power and how I can use that power.
1:13.7	And that's not something that I was looking at.
1:17.0	Even for Oakton College, I look at it to help people, not because of the power that I have.
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1:28.5	what you want your brain to do. We had a young man that was a guest on our podcast, the Mike Lidden
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1:49.0	Welcome to the Mike Litton Experience podcast. Everyone has a story and our passion is to help them tell it.
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