Schedule 1 Money Laundering Guide: Every Business Front Explained

Running an illegal operation in Schedule 1 sounds glamorous until the bills start piling up and your ATM deposits get suspicious enough to attract uniformed attention. The fix is the same one used by every shady tycoon in fiction: own a perfectly normal business that just happens to handle a lot of cash. Here is a clean walkthrough of every laundering front the game offers and how to put one to work.

Step 1: Pick a Front at Ray's Real Estate

All laundering starts with Ray, the real estate agent who sells legitimate-looking businesses to absolutely-not-legitimate clients. There are four options, and the gap between the cheapest and the priciest is enormous, both in upfront cost and in daily throughput.

• The Laundromat. Purchase cost: $4,000. Daily laundering capacity: $2,000.
• The Post Office. Purchase cost: $10,000. Daily laundering capacity: $4,000.
• The Car Wash. Purchase cost: $20,000. Daily laundering capacity: $6,000.
• Taco Ticklers. Purchase cost: $50,000. Daily laundering capacity: $8,000.

The Laundromat is the obvious starter pick if you have just unlocked Ray, but it caps you at $2,000 per day, which dries up fast once production scales. If you can afford to skip a tier or two, do it.

Step 2: Close the Deal

Make sure the funds are sitting in your bank account, then walk into Ray's office and find him behind his desk. He sells both residential properties and businesses, so pick "I'd like to purchase a business" from the dialog, then point at the front you want. The moment the payment clears, the deed is in your name. Welcome to the world of professional rinse cycles.

Step 3: Run the Laundering Operation

Head to the business's location, marked with a small house icon on the map. Inside, you will find a staff-only area with extra storage and a workstation PC. That computer is the actual laundering terminal: drop dirty cash into it, and 24 hours later it comes back clean.

Each business has its own daily ceiling, so plan deposits around the figures above. Stuffing $8,000 into the Laundromat will not magically speed things up; the cap is the cap.

Where the Money Ends Up

Clean money lands directly in your online bank account, exactly like a normal ATM deposit, with two key advantages. There is no weekly deposit limit to worry about, and the heat from oversized transfers stays off your back. The only tradeoff is the 24 hour delay.

At the moment, these businesses do not generate passive income or customers. They exist purely as laundering tools and bonus stash space. Useful, if not exactly thrilling. Future updates may give them real foot traffic, but for now, treat them as the financial plumbing that keeps your empire flushable.