Important Steps to Buy a Real Estate Franchise

Posted by franchise-law on March 8th, 2018

Real estate franchises provide buyers a complete business operation, incorporated name recognition and national paid advertising campaign. Many franchise packages also include hardware and business software, promotional materials, and corporate training to the real estate franchisee. It is not at all difficult to buy a real estate franchise if you do a proper research on it and follows some crucial steps:

1. Calculate your total investment amount to buy a real estate franchise. In this, include your funds from the partners, personal wealth, private investors and potential business loans from financial institutions.

2. Determine the type of real estate franchise you are interested in and try to find how this business matches your experience and training. Real estate franchise opportunities focus more on the services like a rental, residential, commercial, leasing, relocation, etc.

3. Being an interested real estate franchisee, make a brief list of the things you required from your franchisor. Usually, franchisors provide a range of services including equipment, marketing, and training. Just try to figure out based on your experience what you need as a real estate professional.

4. Search the real estate companies online that offer franchises for sale. Furthermore, you can attend the franchise fairs and meet the franchisor personally to find your best match franchise. Some franchisors offer the help in opening the office and provide guidance during the business operation, while others offer limited resources to a real estate franchisee.

5. Demand promotional materials and other franchise applications from your franchisor. Also, discuss the purchase details with your franchisor representatives.

6. Compare the franchise requirements with franchise costs for new real estate franchisees. Do a little research on different franchise disclosures. Also, find what type of royalty payment you are going to pay to your franchisor, most of the time, franchisors take a definite percentage of the business income as a royalty payment.

7. Verify if your franchisor is offering the franchise in your geographic region as many franchisors limit the number of franchises in a definite region.

8. Complete the formality of taking the franchise by submitting your qualifying document to your franchisor. Doing so is just to see if you have the required finances to start and run the franchise.

9. Review the franchise agreement with the help of an experienced real estate franchise attorney before you sign the document that says you are committing to buy the franchise.

10. Accumulate the cash from your personal sources and apply for the loan to support your real estate franchise operations. This particular process involves arranging the money from various sources including business partners and a business loan from private or public financial institutions.

Accumulate the cash from your personal sources and apply for the loan to support your real estate franchise operations. This particular process involves arranging the money from various sources including business partners and a business loan from private or public financial institutions.