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Money Fronts

Three legitimate businesses that launder money for Mr. Faber: each pays passive income into the Car Wash safe as long as its Heat is kept down with honest work.

  • Business
  • Active + passive
  • Solo-friendly
To buy in
$1,000,000
Management
Medium
Raids
Not confirmed
Buy first
No other business
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Money Fronts

What the Money Fronts is

The Money Fronts are three businesses — the Hands On Car Wash, Higgins Helitours and Smoke on the Water — run with Raf De Angelis for Mr. Faber's laundering network. The Car Wash is the hub and has to be bought first.

Each front earns passive income, presented as money washed through your wider criminal network, and each one also makes an existing business of yours more valuable.

What you get

  • Passive income from every front you own, all paid into the safe at the Hands On Car Wash.
  • Sale-value boosts for other businesses: the Car Wash for Counterfeit Cash, Smoke on the Water for the Weed Farm, and Higgins Helitours for Air Freight Cargo.
  • Perks of ownership: free washes for your Personal Vehicles at the Car Wash, aircraft delivery to the Vespucci Helipad with Higgins Helitours, and a daily collectible with Smoke on the Water.

Before you buy

What you need

  • Martin Madrazo has to bring you into the operation before the Hands On Car Wash goes on sale at Maze Bank Foreclosures.
  • Higgins Helitours and Smoke on the Water can only be bought once you own the Hands On Car Wash.

How to start

Meet Martin Madrazo, who introduces you to the operation, then buy the Hands On Car Wash from Maze Bank Foreclosures.

Add Higgins Helitours and Smoke on the Water afterwards, in whichever order you like.

How it runs and makes money

Laundering missions and legitimate work are both started from the office computer in a front, or by calling Raf.

Each front has its own laundering missions. They add Heat to that front, and if its Heat fills up the front stops operating. A front carrying Heat shows a caution marker on the map and earns no passive income until it has been cooled down.

To bring Heat down, do the front's legitimate job: Car Wash for the Car Wash, Helicopter Tour for Higgins Helitours and Weed Delivery for Smoke on the Water. These jobs pay as well.

Running enough laundering missions for a front raises its passive income. Mr. Faber Work jobs count towards that milestone for all three fronts at once.

  • Money Laundering (Hands On Car Wash)

    Contracts and jobs1–4 players

    Laundering jobs for the Car Wash, from recovering cash to burning down a rival operation. Each one raises the Car Wash's Heat.

  • Money Laundering (Higgins Helitours)

    Contracts and jobs1–4 players

    Laundering jobs for the helicopter business, from recovering cargo and a helicopter to delivering cargo. Each one raises its Heat.

  • Money Laundering (Smoke on the Water)

    Contracts and jobs1–4 players

    Laundering jobs for Smoke on the Water, from torching rival weed farms to taking out rival dealers. Each one raises its Heat.

  • Car Wash

    Service work1 players

    Honest work at the Car Wash: clean customers' cars and bring them back for payment. It lowers the Car Wash's Heat.

  • Helicopter Tour

    Service work1 players

    Honest work for Higgins Helitours: fly sightseeing tours past landmarks in the company Maverick. It lowers the business's Heat.

  • Weed Delivery

    Service work1 players

    Honest work for Smoke on the Water: deliver bales of product from the business. It lowers its Heat.

  • Mr. Faber Work

    Contracts and jobs1–4 players

    Jobs Raf passes on from Mr. Faber's clients, with bonus objectives that add to the pay. They count towards the income milestone of every front.

  • Money Fronts passive income

    Passive income

    Each front pays into the Car Wash safe while its Heat is below the maximum, and pays more once its laundering milestone is reached.

Playing alone

The legitimate jobs are for one player, and the laundering missions and Mr. Faber Work take from one to four, so the fronts can be run entirely alone.

Figures

Only values two independent checks agree on. Payouts can change with updates, bonuses, lobby and difficulty.

Limits and timers

Most players in a laundering mission
4

Where you can buy it

Prices are shown only where confirmed. A cheaper site is not automatically a worse one: where your missions send you matters too.

Each front is a single fixed business rather than a choice of sites. Higgins Helitours operates from the Vespucci Helipad.

Risks and common mistakes

Risks

The main thing to manage is Heat: laundering raises it, and a front at full Heat stops working until legitimate work brings it down.

No raids on the fronts are described.

Common mistakes

  • Trying to buy Higgins Helitours or Smoke on the Water first: the Car Wash must come before either.
  • Running laundering missions back to back without legitimate work in between, which lets Heat build until the front shuts down.
  • Looking for the income at each front: every front pays into the Car Wash safe, and only there.
  • Shopping for upgrades: apart from an interior tint, the fronts have nothing to buy.

Good to know

Before you buy

  • The Hands On Car Wash is bought from Maze Bank Foreclosures once Martin Madrazo has brought you into the operation.
  • Higgins Helitours and Smoke on the Water can be bought only after the Car Wash, and then in either order.

Safe income

  • The passive income of every front goes into the safe at the Hands On Car Wash and can only be collected there.
  • A front's passive income goes up once enough laundering missions have been done for it, and Mr. Faber Work counts towards that for all three fronts together.
  • The fronts' income is presented as money from your wider criminal network passing through them.
  • An award keeps track of the laundered income you collect from the Car Wash safe.

Meters

  • Laundering missions add Heat to the front they belong to, and a front whose Heat fills up stops operating.
  • A front with Heat carries a caution marker on the map and must be cooled with legal work before it earns passive income again.
  • Every front has a legitimate job of its own that both pays and lowers its Heat: Car Wash, Helicopter Tour or Weed Delivery.

Setting up

  • Laundering missions and legitimate work start from the office computer in any front, or with a call to Raf.
  • Other than an interior tint, none of the fronts has anything to buy for it.
  • Mr. Faber Work jobs are separate from freemode: Raf passes them on from Mr. Faber's clients, and their bonus objectives add to the pay.

What it unlocks

  • Owning the Car Wash means your Personal Vehicles are washed there for free.
  • Owning Higgins Helitours lets you have a Personal Aircraft or the Higgins Helitours Maverick delivered to the Vespucci Helipad.
  • Owning Smoke on the Water adds the Smoke on the Water Product daily collectible, and finding every one in a day earns a tee.
  • The Smoke on the Water Pony is a Career Progress reward.

Links to other businesses

  • While you own the Car Wash, the product of a Counterfeit Cash Factory sells for more.
  • While you own Smoke on the Water, the product of a Weed Farm sells for more.
  • Owning Higgins Helitours raises the value of Air Freight Cargo.
  • QuickiePharm courier work needs no front at all: it starts at the QuickiePharm garage in Burton and provides a Sentinel GTS for the deliveries.

What it connects to

Linked businesses

  • MC Businesses — The Car Wash makes Counterfeit Cash worth more, and Smoke on the Water does the same for the Weed Farm.
  • Hangar — Higgins Helitours raises the value of a Hangar's Air Freight Cargo.

Sensible next purchases

  • MC Businesses — A Counterfeit Cash Factory or Weed Farm sells for more once the matching front is owned.
  • Hangar — A Hangar's Air Freight Cargo gains value from Higgins Helitours.
Contacts
Martin Madrazo, Raf De Angelis, Mr. Faber
Vehicles
  • Higgins Helitours Maverick — The company helicopter flown on Helicopter Tours, which can be requested at the Vespucci Helipad.
  • Pony (Smoke On The Water) — Used for Weed Delivery, and also a Career Progress reward.