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$40,000 interest free emergency loan for Canadian businesses who qualify with $10k forgivable! Do you qualify? There is confusion in terms of what types of Canadian businesses qualify for the CEBA, which is the Canadian Emergency Business Account, implemented due to Covid-19. This is a $40,000 interest free loan from the government, of which up to 25%, so $10,000 is forgivable. As long as you pay back the entire amount by a certain date, the government allows you to keep $10,000, thanks for being a Canadian company, so you receive $40,000 and only have to pay back $30,000. That's basically $10,000 in free money. We actually went through the process with one of our companies yesterday and let me tell you first, it is super easy. It literally took 3 minutes and we were approved for $40,000. After approval it apparently takes about 5 business days to physically be deposited, and your bank sets up a line of credit in a separate account. We'll look at the repayment schedule in a minute, but first who qualifies for the CEBA and what are the requirements. Must be a Canadian operating business in operation as of March 1 2020, Have a federal tax registration. Must have a active business checking account with one of the participating financial institutions as this program is done through participating banks, and you actually apply through your bank online, the list is pretty long I expect most banks are on there. You must have non deferrable expenses between $40,000 and 1.5 million rent, property taxes, utilities, and insurance, or payroll expenses between $20,000 to 1.5 million. So if you are a contractor who does not receive a salary, or you don't have non deferrable expenses between $40,000 - $1.5 million you would not qualify. Note there is no criteria requirements relating to whether your business is struggling, or what your financial situation might be. As long as you are a Canadian company with non deferrable expenses or payroll that is within the range as noted above, you qualify. There is apparently no option to choose a lower or higher amount, it is currently $40,000, take it or leave it. Again it is an interest free loan so it is a fantastic opportunity for your business, and as long as you pay the entire amount by December 31, 2022 that will result in loan forgiveness of 25 percent (up to $10,000). If you are a Canadian company who would like to apply you can contact your bank or financial institutions, there are 233 participating institutions including credit unions. To get complete details on the program: https://ceba-cuec.ca/ Other programs: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/economic-response-plan.html

What types of franchise franchise businesses are able to thrive in pandemics? We look at 6 options. Commercial Cleaning franchises. Companies that are offering sanitizing services have seen a huge increase in business, and that trend is likely to continue. We don't know if and when a vaccine might be available so medical facilities, offices, all need enhanced cleaning and sanitizing services. Post Covid, cleaning is always an essential service, regardless of the economy. Total Investment for a cleaning franchise ranges between $60-$120,000, and owners should have executive or business experience as you are not cleaning, but hiring teams and landing contracts. Automotive repair. It is no secret that in recessions or depressions, people don't buy new cars. They fix their old cars. Any type of franchise that provides automotive repair services will be well positioned to benefit from this trend. You can start a new automotive franchise from the low $200,000 and up, and we have dozens of resale garages available across the nation as low as $50,000. Note the low priced resales are usually financially distressed so owners should be willing to work hard to turn things around. Contact us for details on our current resales. There are also specialty franchises like mobile oil changes, or tire changing services available as low as $100,000 Cost reduction franchises. In tough economic times companies need to cut costs. Cost reduction consulting type franchises are very unique, most people haven't heard of them, and historically have been quite profitable. Owners are trained to identify over payments companies are making and streamline those cost centers. The franchisees then share in the savings rather than taking an upfront fee, so this is done at no upfront cost to the companies. Some recoveries have been in the millions of dollars. Low investment, low overhead, work from home business, all-in costs about $60,000. These franchises are ideal for executives who have existing business relationships, or are willing to develop them. This is a terrible business for anyone who does not have sales or B2B experience as business does not come to you like with a restaurant or retail establishment. Employment & Staffing. We are seeing unemployment rates rising to historic levels, some suggest it will be possibly worse than the great depression. Companies still need to get work done, but many will choose to hire part time and temp employees, which bodes well for staffing companies. Like the previous example, owners of a staffing business should be sales oriented, this is a very relational business, investment around $120,000 all -in Disaster recovery. There will still be floods, fires and mold problems regardless of the economy. These businesses go out and help homeowners and businesses get back to normal after these events happen. As you are dealing directly with the insurance companies in most cases, you don't have to worry about your customer base not having money. Cost to start a disaster recovery business is about $80,000. Crime scene cleanup. Crime isnt going to stop just because of a recession, in fact it may increase. Another little known franchise model, but one that can be quite lucrative, some cleanups can command over $1000 per hour for specialized cleanups. Owners are usually ex-first responders, and owners need to be comfortable dealing with ""unique working environments. All-in Investment is about $80,000, again low overhead and potential to work from home. Be careful in this space there are some unethical operators, give us a call to find the good ones. Depending on your market demographics senior care can be a good business, as well as appliance repair, handyman franchises, and other service based options. If you are starting with zero money - get that online business started! Start a blog, start a YouTube channel, just get started. More buyers making purchases online than ever before. Spending a couple of hours each day will bring enormous changes in just a few months. It is important to remember that everything has cycles. Booms, busts, pandemics, hyperinflation, recessions, depressions, economic collapses, even civilizational collapses have all happened multiple times throughout history and will happen again. Fighting the cycles is futile. Adapting to the trends is key. If you need expert help finding a franchise our services is always free visit https://www.franchise.city - for details on the cost reduction franchise https://www.franchise.city/cost-reduction-franchise - details on the forgivable loan programs from the SBA click below. thanks for watching. #franchisecity

Can you buy a business with no money? Possibly. The important question however is *should* you buy a business with no money down. There has been an increase of gurus selling courses on how to buy businesses with no money down. These courses are typically aimed at inexperienced buyers, lured by easy riches that are unaware of the potential dangers. Occasionally, sellers will let you take over the business, and you pay them an agreed upon amount monthly. But ask yourself this, if I have a business that is doing well, I'm generating $500,000 a year net, and I could sell my business for 2.5 times multiple. A multiple is one way to valuate a company based on earnings, so a 2.5 multiple of my net earnings would be 1.25 million. I could sell my business for 1.25 million dollars and walk away. And for profitable businesses there are always buyers. Why would I give my business to this inexperienced person who has no money? It's not realistic. The majority of vendor finance deals are open to no money down because they are unable to sell through traditional means as they have some sort of problem, or are insolvent. Right now there are hundreds of businesses around the nation that are l are basically insolvent. Every month they lose more money. They maybe can't break the lease because they gave a personal guarantee. They maybe can't break the franchise agreement because they'll owe royalties for 2 years because of a liquidated damages clause. People think if a business is losing money they would just shut the doors, but as strange as it sounds, many can't afford to close. The owner will tell you all you have to do is spend more time in the restaurant, make a few changes and you'll be the person to turn it around. The seller will even finance the deal. So if you have good credit you take over the lease to a restaurant and bar. You needed to do a share sale because if you buy only assets you lose the license to sell alcohol. You do some creative things to bypass the liquidity minimums, and you now own a business that didnt cost you a penny. You did it you bought a business with no money down! Which is great until the first month lease payment is due of $7,000. And the paychecks for the employees are due for $5,000. But your revenues won't even cover half of that. You didn't know how to read the financials so this is a surprise. Also, because you jumped at this incredible deal you forgot to check if the seller had any unpaid taxes, payroll taxes, unemployment insurance premiums, sales tax remittances, federal income taxes, and whether in this type of sale you could be liable. You signed everything they put in front of you to get at this great deal and you also didnt check if they had any outstanding accounts payable to vendors. The vendors are now threatening to cut off your food and alcohol supply if you don't pay the $20,000 owing. Also there were liens on some of the kitchen equipment that you didn't check and weren't disclosed, so they come and take your ovens. Your business has to close, you are financially ruined and on the hook for thousands, and the seller is clicking his heels he got out from under that mess. Now can you sue them? It doesnt matter because you dont have any money. If you have no money it is because you haven't learned how to make money. If you don't know how to make money, a business doesn't teach you how to make money. Picture it like this - it's like buying a race car, you don't even know how to drive but you now expect to win the Indy 500 because someone sold you a car with no money down. That car isnt going to do anything except crash unless you first learn how to drive. And if you have no business experience your business won't do well. Inexperienced buyers think a business just prints money like an ATM. You just hire people and they show up and work and the business runs itself. A successful business owner needs to be good at hiring, managing, employee retention, understanding financials, forecasting & budgeting, marketing, community outreach and customer acquisition, Almost nobody is going to sell you a profitable business, free of issues with no money down. What you are really looking for is an easy way. And there is no easy way. Learn to make money first. Study business. You don't need university, everything you need to know is online today for free. Get your experience. If you can make money with no money, prove yourself first, then you will be able to make money when you have money. And once you have the experience you won't be taken advantage of, you'll be able to identify a good over a bad business, and once you have these skills you can potentially buy distressed businesses, turn them around, and replicate this over and over again. But first you need to pay your dues and realize there are no shortcuts to wealth. #franchisecity

Is a real estate brokerage franchise a good investment? Today we explore a low cost real estate franchise that is that has unique positioning in the market. Good opportunity today with a franchise that we like for a number of reasons. This franchise qualifies for our partner program, so for qualified candidates who are lacking start-up capital, we will invest up to 50% of your start-up costs in exchange for 50% of the profits. You can learn more about the partner program at the end of this video. Let's take a look at the franchise and why I think they are well suited for this economy. The real estate broker business model is simple, you open an office, you recruit brokers, they sell houses, and as the owner, you retain a portion of every house they sell. Commissions are a percentage of the selling price of a house so they can be quite significant. There are many ways to make money in Real Estate, buying the real estate itself, managing properties, or becoming a Realtor. In a market that goes up - buying and speculating in real estate makes sense. But when the economy slows, many people will have to sell their homes. In these markets, it can make sense to be selling properties. Just think about when the economy slows down you will have thousands of houses on the market that need to be sold. Companies that have better digital marketing and promotional programs in place will offer better value. Now here is the problem I see in the market and why I wasnt interested in other real estate franchises. Back when I was an active real estate investor, I stopped using agents because of having to pay 6% on each sale. That's $60,000 commission on a million-dollar house that takes the agent 4 days to sell in a hot market. Now way back in the stone age 6% made sense because you had to advertise on billboards, in the newspaper, it cost money and took time to find a buyer. Today it just doesn't cost as much so many people are reluctant to pay that fee. Other options have popped up like FSBO and online listing sites, but most sellers are unwilling to handle the transaction themselves. In fact 91% of sellers still prefer to work with a Real Estate agent. So this franchise does everything that a traditional real estate agent does, but they do it for half the fee. Their model is is tech-driven, paperless and focuses on digital marketing. So in a down market, they are helping sellers to market and sell their home using modern methods, as well as the traditional MLS listing. The seller pays half of what they would have with a typical agent while getting exactly the same service. What is also very appealing about this franchise is the fact that on average, franchisees have seen a return on investment back as little as in 120 days. Please see the FDD for complete details. Now most real estate franchises require you to have a brokers license, which if you arent already a licensed agent, will take at least 2 years. This franchise does not require that, you don't even need to be a real estate agent, we'll cover how that works with qualified candidates. Other real estate franchises you need an office which can be costly at startup, This franchise because it is mostly digital can be started from a home or small office. Most Real Estate brokerage franchise will cost between $100-$250,000. This franchise costs as low as $36,000 plus some working capital to get your business started. And keep in mind there are a lot of financing programs from the government available now that as of the date of filming are providing incentives like 6 months no payments and those payments are forgiven! So its a great time to start a business your franchise city broker can help you learn more about the financing programs in place. As with any franchise, your success or failure will depend on your business skills and motivation. The people who will do well in this franchise are savvy business candidates, real estate experience is beneficial, but not essential. More importantly, you should have previous management or executive experience as you will be recruiting agents, networking in your community, developing relationships and all aspects related to running a business. You will also need a minimum net worth of $45,000 to qualify. This franchise is currently not available in all states, and they are pretty well sold out in most of Canada, a few provinces like BC still have some availability. If you are a qualified candidate and would like to see if your territory is available, you can contact your franchise city broker by clicking the link above, or in the description box.If you lack the complete investment details on our partner program here https://www.franchise.city/partner-program If you need help finding or researching a franchise, our services are always free. please like and subscribe and thanks for watching https://www.franchise.city/real-estate-franchise #franchisecity

Is a dollar store a good business to own, and are dollar store stocks a good investment? We disagree with almost everyone on this topic and I'll explain why today on Franchise city. So before we begin I love dollar stores, so to date I love the industry as well, But I will show you a few things most investors have not considered. So first off the positives, and why most people still suggest investing in Dollar Stores: Dollar stores at this point sell more groceries than high end chains like Whole Foods. 10 billion dollars a year more. There are actally more dollar stores than all other six biggest outlet stores combined including Walmart, Kroger, Costco, Home Depot, CVS, and Walgreens. While the retail apocolypse saw thousands of stores close last year, Dollar stores blew every other industry away by a wide margin. If you look at this chart you can see that Dollar Stores by far beat out convenience, drug, liquor stores by a wide margin. In fact on average 3 new dollar stores opened every single day and there are expected to be 38,000 dollar stores by 2021. If you were an investor, you also saw nothing but upside with solid returns from most of the publicly traded dollar store stocks. Now as of today, we are likely heading into another recession, or a depression, probably already there - and if we look at the statistics from last downturn between 2008 and 2011, shares of Dollar Tree soared nearly 200 per cent while the S&P 500 gained just 39 per cent over the same time. Sales of inexpensive items increase during an economic crunch, people dont have money and they go to the dollar store. So dollar stores *seem to be a great pick for recessions. So everything looks rosy, why should we be concerned? 1. Market saturation. In every industry we see a market saturation point. It happened in frozen yogurt, with fod in general. and People see how well an industry is doing and everyone rushes in, herd mentality, ultimately average unit margins drop, you see more and more dollar stores pop up competing with each other. This of course will be highly regional and your own city scenario will determine the outcome. Now also keep in mind many cities have come to dislike dollar stores as they hurt other businesses, and some have implemented restrictions on stores. 2. "Dispersal Restrictions" Some cities are putting limits on how many Dollar Stores can open in an area. Tulsa, Kansas City, Mesquite TX, New Orleans, just a few cities that have adopted the restrictions. The rationale is that all these dollar stores make it impossible for local stores to compete. They are doing this because there are way too many Dollar Stores, which if you are an owner with 10 immediate stores around you - your profits will be limited due to saturation and a competitive market. So before you open check for regulations, restrictions and for stores already in the area or opening in the future. 3. Low margins - Think about this - the average profit on dollar store products is about 35 cents. Assuming you purchase well. That means it takes 200,000 individual sales to make just $70,000 a year. That is 547 sales a day or 45 items every hour, 365 days a year. You need enormous volumes even just to make a livable income, and while stores that opened up 10 years ago did very well, it is much harder now when you have dozens of other stores around you. Number 4 is inflation.And we really need to look at history on a grander scale to see what may happen today. Look at these companies. Ben Franklin Stores, M.H Fishman, Butler Brothers, W.T. Grant. Its likely you have never heard of these stores but at one time they were thriving with thousands of stores around the USA. Back then these were the dollar store equivalent called five and dimes. So everything in these stores sold for a nickel or a dime. Eventually over time public sentiment and shopping changed, but obviously something that also had a major impact was inflation. As the value of the dollar drops, you simply can't make a product at 3 cents and sell it for a nickel. Right now the government is injecting trillions of dollars into the economy. Ultimately, this creates a risk of debasing the currency, making a dollar worth less than it is today. In this scenario, just like the five and dime stores, the dollar store model might not hold up anymore when items simply cant be produced, or shipped for pennies. Which brings us to concern, #5, which is relations with China. The current administration has had ongoing tense relations, can you imagine what would happen if we lost the ability to trade with China? You might say its unthinkable, but so was a pandemic just a few months ago. You could never produce dollar store items in the USA for the prices buyers are accustomed to paying. If relations with China continued to deteriorate that could create issues in the industry. Need help finding a franchise? https://www.franchise.city/our-services #franchisecity #dollarstores

UPDATE: IF YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR PAPERWORK IN BY NOW AND YOU ARE BUYING A BRICK AND MORTAR TYPE BUSINESS - YOU'RE TOO LATE! FUNDING MUST BE DISBURSED BY SEPT. YOU MAY STILL HAVE TIME FOR A SERVICE BASED BUSINESS. Small Business loans during Coronavirus are available! The SBA has been given over 800 million dollars by the government to help businesses during the crisis. This is not just for existing businesses, but for new businesses and franchises as well. What does that mean for you as someone buying a new franchise? Per section 1112 of the cares act the SBA 7a, 504 and microloans all qualify for no payments on your loan for up to 6 months, and those payments are forgiven. So if you purchase your franchise before September 2020, you can run your franchise for up to a full 6 months, take all that money in before you even have to make your first loan payment, AND the government is picking up the tab for your first 6 months of payments. That is huge. Obviously this is still subject to your standard credit approval we can help you determine eligibility. Keep in mind that in good times SBA loans take up to 60 days to process so you want to get in as soon as possible. If you want to use your 401k, you can now withdraw up to $100,000 without penalty, or borrow up to $100k up from the previous maximum of $50,000. And of course the ROBS program where you allocate your 401 to your own business is still available. If the stock market continues to drop it might make sense to allocate your funds into your own business, and there are substantial tax benefits for doing so. if you are an active franchise buyer you can get more details from your Franchise City broker. We can help with your financing, finding a franchise, researching your franchise, making sure its a wise choice and more, all our services are always free. https://www.franchise.city/ #franchisecity #coronavirus #loans

Franchise companies proudly display inclusion to the annual Franchise 500® list presenting the accomplishment as validation of their brand. But is the Franchise 500® list trustworthy? Entrepreneur magazine reveals a very important fact in their disclaimer. That the criteria used in the list is not even "store level" information that would be important to a buyer. It's high level information pertaining to the strength of a franchise as a whole. The 2020 list shows "Five Pillars" are considered for inclusion: (See Video) Do you, as a buyer, care if the company provides financing? Should they get extra points for this? And how does a company get points for social media? Some brands on the list have poor social media. And who cares anyway? Growth rate? Having an aggressive growth rate can actually be bad for individual franchisees if the franchise can't support it. Years in business? They included several start-up and emerging franchise brands on the list. The Franchise 500® also claims to look at franchise closures. Subway is included as number 107 on the latest 2020 list. Subway closed over 2000 stores over the past 3 years! Over 1,000 stores closed in 2018 alone. That represents 2,000 real people who lost their investment. Thousands of buyers who had perhaps validated their own investing decision after seeing the Franchise 500® rankings! Baskin Robbins is #13 of 500 on the list. They just missed making the top 10! Baskin-Robbins franchised stores are the single lowest-earning franchise on the QSR50. The QSR50 is an industry list that ranks QSR restaurants using a number of different criteria, including store-level earnings. According to the QSR50 an average Baskin-Robbins grosses annual revenues of only $240K. To put that in context, an average Chick-Fil-A single location grosses over 4 million dollars per year. But the Franchise 500® list doesn't look at individual store earnings they look at the earnings of the entire company. So the single number one factor that could help buyers make a better buying decision, franchisee satisfaction, is completely ignored! There are several franchises on that list, some very highly placed, with multiple lawsuits, alarming failure rates, low franchisee satisfaction, and lackluster earnings at a unit level. Simply put, the most popular list that touches the majority of the largest franchise brands in the world, and one that is shamelessly used as validation of the quality of a franchise investment, includes some very bad franchises. But who put this highly coveted industry list together? Surely they must have hired franchising professionals to compile the list? If you look below the fine print of their disclaimer, at the even finer print showing who created the list, you will see the research performed for the entire list was compiled by individuals with zero franchising experience! Let that sink in. The two main individuals responsible for compiling what is perceived as the most important industry list have zero franchising experience. The first name mentioned as the lead in the research is a special projects editor at Entrepreneur Media. Their education is a Bachelor's degree in English. According to their Linkedin profile they also run a side business selling domain names. The second name is noted as an "SEO expert and director of ad operations" According to their profile, they have more than four years of SEO and marketing experience. Consider this. Hundreds of franchises hype the inclusion to the list as validation of their business. They post their "Franchise 500" badges on the front pages of websites, and they post it on their literature. They mention it frequently when speaking with candidates. And sadly, every year, hundreds of franchise buyers make their decision based on the inclusion to the "Franchise 500" list. A list pulled together by an English Major who sells domains on the side and an SEO expert with four years of experience. Also a list that doesn't even look at franchisee satisfaction or other important data points and notably includes some of the worst franchises out there. A list that admittedly tells you not to use it to make a decision, but then allows franchise companies to imply this list is all you need to make a good decision! Year after year the list is churned out, the public eats it up and invests quite possibly what was their retirement savings on a "top" franchise that gets richer, only to qualify for the list again the following year based on their growing bank account. Franchise City provides free tools to help buyers make better buying decisions and avoid mistakes, including psychometric assessments, comparative analysis, and red flag reports. Real actionable data. You can learn more about us by clicking above https://www.franchise.city/our-services https://www.franchise.city/franchise-500 https://www.entrepreneur.com/franchise500/2020

Unique arbitrage loophole some ebay sellers are using to make $17,000 on a single deal. ARBITRAGE INVOLVES RISK. ALWAYS CONSULT A PROFESSIONAL BEFORE DEPLOYING. PROVIDED "AS-IS" FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. Today we look at a loophole that made somebody $17k in the comfort of their own home. Hopefully this will also draw peoples attention to the value of precious metals. if you dont have much money to invest you could do this on a smaller scale and make a few extra dollars. Arbitrage, for those of you that don't know is simultaneously buying and selling an asset in a different market and taking advantage of price difference in that other market. You can do this with web clicks, electronics, fashion, basically anything. There are always arbitrage opportunities you just need to keep your eyes open, especially when we begin to see more distortions. Right now as some of you may know it is impossible to find any silver or gold bullion. All of the traditional retailers where people usually buy silver you cant find it, kitco, everybody is sold out. Which is funny because the actual spot price of silver is low, but this is because of people selling their paper silver on the market, so ETF's not physical silver, which drives the price down. But people are now realizing that if the government is printing money, currency may devalue, stocks may tank, and holding metals is a good thing. When something becomes scarce, people do desperate things to get their hands on silver or gold, including paying insane premiums to own it. But here is a secret, most people dont check the *banks to buy bullion because usually the premiums are too high. Most people dont even know banks sell precious metals. Many do. And when the retailers are asking crazy premiums over spot, the banks actually look pretty good. Here is a monster box we just picked up from Scotiabank on Friday, - so 2 days ago. 500 oz of silver in 20 tubes of 25. I asked the bank they said they have no shortage in metals I could order as much as we wanted in any form we wanted. So acquisition cost on this box was about $13,000 or $650 a tube in Canadian dollars, the Canadian dollar is very low right now compared to the USA. If we look over on ebay, you can search for "sold" listings we see on March 22nd someone paid almost $43,000 for 1000 oz of silver. If we bought 500oz from the bank today our acquisition costs would be $26,000, if we sold at $43,000 the profit would be $17,000 for one listing. You could buy, have it shipped to your home, list it, sell it never have to leave your house. Now notice below was a monster box 500 coin box that sold for $16,323, so this person "only" made $3,323 on a single deal. People are paying crazy amounts for silver and gold because of FOMO. What if we broke up the box and sold individual tubes. Remember our acquisition costs were $650 a tube Canadian. Here is a listing for one tube, 25 coins for $1035, arbitrage profit on that deal would have been $385, here is another roll that sold at $907, that would have been $257 in profit for a single listing. We see dozens of single silver bullion rolls that sold between $850 at the low end to $1000+ at the high end, so looks like a minimum of$200 profit per roll per listing. We see 4 tubes at $3,000, we would make $400 every sale. Here is 5 tubes selling at $3600, again almost a $400 profit on one deal. And there are many, many listings of tubes selling at this price. We also see anomalies where the listing ends at crazy prices, this is 50oz, remember our cost $1,300, sold for $3067 that auction would have had a profit of $1767. Gold bullion is even crazier on ebay, look at this 25 grams of gold, not even a full OZ, sold for $5,000. We can buy this right now for $2100, someone made a profit of almost $3,000. Look at this 10 oz of gold somebody paid $68,000, you can buy gold right now for about $2500 Canadian, so $25,000 for 10 - somebody made an arbitrage profit of $43,000. Now admittedly that one is an anomaly, but people are making thousands of dollars on ebay using arbitrage. You can already see distortions in the market that could very well continue and some of these auctions are going for huge amounts, and all are going for far in excess of what these coins are selling for at the bank. So anyone can make extra money from home at the low end about $10 for every coin sold, and at the high end thousands of dollars on boxes, and hundreds of dollars on the tubes. Now you have to be careful because when the silver inventory for retail markets are replenished this arbitrage loophole could very well close up, and prices normalize. There is a small window right now while people's fear of not being able to get their silver and gold bullion where people are making obscene profits. There are hundreds of ways to make money at home, please like and subscribe if you like this kind of content, and check out some of our other videos on domain flipping and billboards. #makemoneyathome

Want to see if these franchises are a good fit? Free data, reports and consulting: https://youtu.be/HDrFegUMSZI DO NOT CONTACT THE FRANCHISES DIRECTLY IF YOU INTEND TO USE OUR SERVICE! This will be the hardest year we have ever had to predict based on what is happening right now. A lot of speculation, we dont know how long or how severe this is going to be. It could go away quickly, or it could have a long and sustained impact on the economy. My personal belief, and this is based on the fact we have multiple issues on the horizon including collapsed oil prices, inverted yield curve, negative interest rates, global debt bubble, printing money, student loan bubble and soon to be 30% unemployment, I think we will have tough years ahead for those who are not prepared. That said - time to get prepared, there are always ways to make money in a depression, people still need services, and I think certain industries will see increased growth. Lets take a look. Real Estate. and there are a few options within this sector. When the economy slows many people will have to sell their homes. Sad but true. A real estate brokerage franchise can be started for as low as about $40,000, one of the new brands we have here, very unique model, does not even require a real estate license or experience. You are managing a crew of real estate agents and receive an override for every house they sell. This brand is just entering the US as well so a great time to get on board. Another franchise in the sector is the we buy ugly houses franchise, Homevestors, we have covered them on the channel before, you can fix and flip houses, or better in this market, hold and set up multiple rental units. Obviously when the market tanks there will be some incredible deals on the market to build a real estate rental empire, as you have the double benefit people will have to sell their homes AND and they will need to rent. Investment varies for that franchise depending on your city but ranging from about $50,000 to $250,000 for a big city like New York. We can help you determine you cost give us a call or hit us up on the website. Further in the real estate theme is property management. As people lose their houses, the rental market heats up, more and more landlords will need the help of qualified property managers. A property management franchise has major benefits over starting as an independent, we have covered this on the channel before. Investment for a property management franchise starts at about $50,000 including your working capital. Next up - Consulting franchises. Certain industries that help companies reduce costs or become more efficient will have increased demand. Many businesses will be trying to cut costs, and there are several specialty franchises that work in sectors like telecom or energy that are likely to see great demand. These franchises train franchisees how to identify and negotiate these savings, and in some cases the franchisees will share in the savings over a period of time. Investment is around $50,000, and we have one franchise that is waiving the royalties for a period of time for all new franchisees. Senior care. You cant put grandma out to the curb because the economy is not good. We know the boomers, the biggest part of the population started turning 65 in 2011, that trend will continue for many years. They have money and will continue to need help as they age. There are multiple niche markets in senior care from placement type franchises, where you help seniors find a suitable care facility, investment about $70,000, to full care-giving franchises where you manage teams of caregivers who visit seniors in their homes and facilities, that investment starting at about $100,000. If you are a passive investor, dont want to actually work in the business there are certain recession resistant sectors like hair cutting, water filtration, laundry services in certain cases . You need to be careful to examine the needs of your own market as certain regions can be saturated. Investment for these businesses about $250k per unit, with a reduced price for multi-units. Most of these franchises can be financed with about 20% down OAC, you can also use your 401k, which if the economy keeps dropping might be better invested in your own business rather than in the general markets. Now keep in mind your own skills, operational preferences, local demographic and dozens of other factors will determine which franchise option is the best for your situation. We have free tools and coaching at Franchise city that can help make a better decision - If you would like to explore any of the franchises mentioned today you can find us at https://www.franchise.city/

The Coronavirus alerted us to how vulnerable the global economy actually is. But are there any safe havens for investors? Nobody knows for certain how much the economy will be impacted by Covid-19, but it will definitely be into the trillions. Yesterday morning the Dow Jones crashed again and the market was temporarily suspended. Over the past 2 weeks trillions were shed from the value of the market which is down over 25% from its all time high. This has erased almost all the gains since Trump came into office. This is after the fed has cut rates to almost zero and announced they would be injecting 1.5 trillion into the economy. The markets are still tanking and they are running out of bullets quickly. New York just announced they have reached a similar number to Wuhan just before the city was quarantined. The Surgeon general just announced "We could be the next Italy" referring to the second worst hit country only after China and is currently under complete countrywide lockdown. The US Centers for Disease control is recommending a nationwide halt to gatherings of more than 50 people for the next 8 weeks. The economic impact on sports, concerts and events could reach the billions. Not to mention the ancillary businesses that provide drinks, food, lodging tourism and other related industries Stock market - so far hemorrhaging trillions even after fed rate cut and announcement of 1.5 trillion injection. is the market at the bottom now? Most people think this is unlikely so stocks likely not a great choice. REITS? We have discussed REITs on the channel before, real estate investment trusts, certain sectors like health care always stay strong in recessions and many experts suggest them as a safe haven. But three biggies Alexandria Real Estate Equities is down -17.21% (ARE), Healthcare Trust of America is down -16.69% (HTA) and Medical Properties Trust is down -23.44% (MPW) so health care REITS, not safe havens. silver and gold -usually considered a safe haven but no - silver has absolutely tanked, we did a video a few months ago showing that silver actually doesnt do well historically in recessions,people went crazy, how dare you silver is real money, anyway Ill post a link above and at the end of this video. silver has gone from about 19 dollars down to 13. Gold not far behind also tanking. Now for the record its not a bad idea to hold some metal just in case, just dont go all in and be aware that you may have some downward pressure in the short term Bitcoin - the supposed "safe haven" in tough times - it plunged to a low of $3700 dollars at one point, just above $5000 right now people selling off bitcoin as well when the selling frenzy started. Not a bad idea to hodl some Bitcoin as an emergency fund just not all in, and has not been a safe haven. people are hoarding cash, but cash, if they start printing money again will create inflation and devaluation of the dollar. Interest rates are also at zero. So where is the money going? Roofstock, which is a rental property sales website, has seen traffic from Asia increase by 500%. Many investors, including international investors are piling into rental properties, single family homes as a safe haven. Now if these are in bubble areas I might be scared,as we are likely to see a correction in the future. In non bubble regions, rental properties are probably a good plan, and doubly so because borrowing money is very cheap right now. If the economy worsen well see people losing homes they'll need a place to rent. Single family homes are the most liquid if you need the money so probably will continue as a safe haven. (CONTINUED IN VIDEO) Investing in the right type of business can also make sense. Investors can acquire recession resistant businesses with existing cash flow if they have the budget, buy a chain of franchises, certain industries also carry significant tax benefits through the section 179 tax deduction. For high net worth individuals this can be significant. Certain industries, best to keep away, but businesses like automotive repair, commercial cleaning, property management and real estate will likely see continued growth. If you are an investor seeking franchise acquisitions you can contact us at Franchise City to discuss your options. For those of you with little to no money, wake up call. Its really time to pay off your debts, time to start that side hustle you have been thinking about for years and doing nothing about, time to build some digital skills, start that online business, start that YouTube channel, finish that book, stop spending like it will never end, and prepare for a world that may not have unlimited growth. Please like and subscribe, stop hoarding toilet paper and thank you for watching. https://www.franchise.city https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2Findex.html #coronavirus #franchisecity #economy

Another great way to make money online is to start a membership or directory website. Low start-up costs, and the potential to generate years of relatively passive income. There are hundreds of successful directories online like job listing directories, directories for hotels, classified ads directories, travel directories like TripAdvisor, Yelp is a big directory, Airbnb is a directory, there are thousands of them. Businesses pay a fee, sometimes hundreds of dollars a month, to be included in these directories as it provides visibility for their business. Its actually quite easy to set up an online directory, there are out of the box solutions now that you can set up in 10 minutes, we'll cover that shortly. You don't need to build to the size of Yelp or Airbnb to make money, a smaller, more localized or niche directory is the best way to start. Why are directories a good online business? Firstly, when you start any business you should always have your exit in mind. If your plan is to sell your business in a few years, a business with recurring revenue will always sell for more money. Recurring revenue is also the best way to generate income. With an online directory you will have businesses that pay you month after month just for a listing. Businesses need to advertise, and they are always looking for ways to find customers. Most businesses today have no idea how to promote themselves online. Most dont have the time to learn internet marketing. So if you can help them with their online promotions and client generation, they will gladly pay you a monthly fee. So let's say you build a directory and you have 100 business listings paying you $99.99 each a month. Thats $10k a month with almost zero overhead just your costs for hosting. You can make additional revenue by selling banner ads on the website. If your online directory gets a lot of traffic you can charge hundreds of dollars a month for banner ads that rotate around the site. Most of the out of the box directories have built in banner advertising or add-one that is just a matter of clicking a button and adding your customers banner. You can also ad Google AdSense to your website, Google will place contextual advertisers on your page and you get paid a portion of the clicks from the links. Before you begin you'll need to do your research to find what niche is under served. Now there are several hyper competitive niche markets, lawyers, hotels and travel, restaurants, doctors, & real estate. These segments are are very competitive and filled with million dollar companies. Not a good place to start. But segments within these markets are possible. So instead of a general Airbnb site, what about a local or regional directory, so "best places to stay in Columbus". Or best lawyers in Maine. Or segmenting by lawyers who handle a specific niche, like fashion law. There are thousands of possible directories in hundreds of industries and more and more people are searching all the time. It is a good idea is to add some listings for free to get started. get some reviews, pay for small ads to incent initial reviews. SEO the pages. The more specific your niche is, the easier it will be to get indexed by Google. So if you have a directory that has 50 or 60 medical malpractice lawyers in Iowa, Google will start to index you as a quality website. Once your directory gets traction, you will appear high in search and businesses will call you to be included. Now some directories actually charge per lead which is much easier to get clients to sign on. Depending on the industry some leads can sell for $100 or more each. When we started our directory we used a company called Brilliant directories. its an out of the box solution, so you basically just install it, set the pricing, and you are ready to go. Customers can click to choose different plans that you set including upgraded listings, front page placement and other options. if you have the budget Brilliant Directories is the easiest way to create a directory and they have thousands of directory owners. Link below to Brilliant Directories, you can set up a free directory as a demo to do a test drive. The paid version will run $145 a month which includes all your hosting, upgrades , security and up to 100,000 members. If you lack the budget there are also Wordpress directory options, but we found it was just easier to not have to worry about all the add-ons, the hosting, security and everything else. Now once your directory is up you'll need to do the SEO, promotions, incent reviews, this is where the work takes place, but it takes effort to make money online, or anywhere else! Brilliant Directories Free Demo: https://shrsl.com/25z1c (Affiliate link. You price is not affected. If you purchase we receive a referral fee)

Can the derivatives bubble wipe out the wealth of a Nation? What are derivatives and how can you prepare? The dictionary says derivatives are "an arrangement or instrument (such as a future, option, or warrant) whose value derives from and is dependent on the value of an underlying asset." In plain English derivatives are (in some situations) nothing more than legalized gambling, sometimes gambling with your grandmothers pension fund. Warren Buffet said many years ago "Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal." What most people don't know is that he still uses them, has made billions from them, but he fully understands the potential disaster they will cause. A overly simplistic view of derivatives is this. You and I meet and I say "I bet my neighbor Mr. Johnson is going to default on his mortgage" You say, "Johnson owns a Bentley, and is very rich, Ill take that bet" So you bet he will pay his mortgage I bet he defaults. Now we don't even have to use our own money, we only need to put in 2-10% of our total bet and tell each other we are good for the rest. Now picture all the neighbors betting on whether Mrs Jones apple tree business will yield fruit, Mr. Davis hardware store will go under, so on and so forth. Our bets are not really tied to the actual value of anything. And everyone makes a ton of money until Mr Johnson actually loses his house, Mr. Davis Hardware store goes under, and Mrs Jones apple trees all perish from drought. Now all of a sudden these bets come due and everyone realizes nobody actually has money to cover these bets because you only put in 2-10% of the bet. But deep down we didn't care because the taxpayers will probably bail us out anyway. If you are a US taxpayer you already owe about $190,000 on your share of the US National debt alone which stands at 23 trillion dollars. Think 23 trillion is a lot of money? the derivatives market some suggest is as high as 1.4 quadrillion dollars. That's 10 times the size of the entire global economy. Which is fine - as long as the system keeps working as it should. But what if something goes wrong? The 2008 collapse most people think was just a housing bubble. Reality is that nobody actually knows what exactly caused the crisis, but what do you think subprime mortgage backed securities are? They're derivatives. Bank lends money to a home buyer, bank sells the mortgage to Fannie Mae, Fannie resells the mortgage in secondary markets, the hedge fund splits up the mortgage backed security into higher and lower risk portions, and sells it. You get higher interest if you bet on riskier mortgages or parts of mortgages further into the mortgage term. This is all fun until people can't pay their mortgages. Then we have the collapse where the taxpayers, thats you, bail out the big banks as a reward for the enormous risks and bets they took that made them billions. I guess its not risky though when you know someone else will bail you out. But they fixed everything after the last collapse right? No. Huge reforms were attempted by Obama which banks fought against and basically won. Not only did the CEO's responsible for the collapsing the economy not go to jail, the industry sued anyone trying to regulate them, they lobbied, they used every trick at their disposal to circumvent regulation, get back to boom days and today nothing has changed. The top 6 banks that were too big to fail now account for 2/3rds of the entire banking industry. Last year Deutsche Bank started laying off 18,000 people and had an estimated 49 trillion dollars in derivatives exposure. By the way JP Morgan 48 trillion in derivatives, Citigroup 47 trillion, Goldman Sachs 42 trillion. Now you may not have heard of Deutsche Bank, but you should know that if this bank falls, and it is struggling right now, laying off 10's of thousands of people, and doing major restructuring, which includes trying to sell off some of these useless, worthless derivatives that nobody wants, if it falls the interconnections between all global banks will quite possibly set off a domino effect throughout the entire world. The IMF says Deutsche Bank poses a greater threat to global financial stability than any other bank,......... and they said that back when DB was in much better financial shape. Nobody knows what will start the next recession but derivatives might be a big part of that problem. The good news is if you are prepared recessions are fantastic opportunities. We just uploaded a video on recession proof business and why starting a business in a recession is actually a great time. link above. Gold and precious metals can also be a wise investment you can watch that video by clicking below. please like and subscribe - Thanks for watching. #derivatives

Recessions are quite possibly the best time to start a business! Too many people use recessions as excuses to not follow their goals and create wealth. It is arguably better to start a business in a recession, we'll look at why, and several industry options. How many recessions have there been in America? 47. How often has the USA has been in recession? Almost 30% of the time. So realize this.... any business you start you will be hit by a recession at some time or another. Microsoft started in a recession, as did hundreds of very successful companies. Experienced entrepreneurs understand this and don’t use the recession as an excuse for what is actually just fear. Inexperienced entrepreneurs always use recession, global warming, local economy, too much competition, not a big enough market, their cat just died, any excuse to bail out. First time buyers will often jump at any opportunity just to stop that fear of making a mistake,of possibly losing money and run back to the security of their job that they hate ......ironically the same job they will lose in the next recession! The best way to protect your job is to be the boss. Why is running a business in a recession actually a good thing? 1. Its easier to retain talent. If you run a business today in a great economy, you know its a challenge trying to hire people. In a recession you can pick and choose your employees because there are 50 people lining up for your one job. You'll also have more motivated employees who will stay with you longer. 2. Your vendors and suppliers are more negotiable as there is a limited buyers for their products and services. 3. It's cheap to borrow money. Fed interest rate already slashed down to just above 1%, we arent even officially in a recession. Money gets really cheap and borrowing for your business is available at a much cheaper cost. 4. Your competition will be less intense. If you can be that business that doesnt shrivel up and blow away, you will enjoy more customers as the businesses all around you shrivel up and blow away. So what businesses are great options for a recession. This will depend if you have money or do not have money. We'll start off with options if you have little or no money. The gig economy is a great option, meaning freelancing, and that could be writing, graphic design, consulting, coding, social media manager, photography, chef, driver, fitness trainer, tutoring, there are hundreds of gigs, that you can easily learn online, that will be in great demand during a recession. Many companies will be downsizing full time employees but will still need these services and are likely to hire freelancers. Beyond the gig economy you can write a book and market it online. How about a book on thriving in a recession? You can start a YouTube channel, YouTube is free for creators and for viewers, and in a down economy more people will be watching, You can become an affiliate marketer and start a blog, people still need to buy soap, food, games, they need to get in shape, as an affiliate blogger you can capitalize on that. You can learn to cut hair and offer mobile hair cutting services for seniors, you could write resumes, in recessions tons of people will need resumes. As the majority of the population sits eating cat food waiting for the end of the world, you can be clicking your heels realizing that recessions are actually a good thing. if you have money to invest in a business or franchise. There are certain industries that will do well. Senior care franchise providing care to seniors in their homes. Investment for a senior home care franchise will range from about $80,000 and up. Hair cutting franchises. Total investment for a hair salon franchise is about $180,000 and up. Child care and education franchises. Childcare franchises can be started as low as $60,000. Real Estate franchises. Real estate franchises can be started as low as $40,000, Also related to real estate, property management franchises can be a great option as more people are renting which creates additional workload for landlords. A property management franchise will cost about $45,000. Also in real estate, real estate investing franchises can work, as you can snap up incredible bargains and use them as rental properties. Recommerce/ Thrift Shop businesses or franchises - Investment about $240,000 Commercial cleaning franchises and Master Franchises - Cost for a master cleaning franchise about $200,000, a general cleaning franchise about $60,000 and up. Automotive repair franchises. Cost to open an automotive franchise is about $200,000, distressed resales can be as low as $50,000. These can take some work to turn around but if you are willing and able it can be a good deal. We post bargain resale businesses each month on this channel so be sure to subscribe! Need help finding a franchise? https://www.franchise.city/our-services #franchisecity #recession

Be prepared! Investing in Gold today could yield enormous dividends. We'll look at Gold investing, some very scary upcoming economic trends, and how to prepare and even thrive in the upcoming recession. Very serious topic today and whether you invest in gold or metals or not, listen to this information as what could happen in the near future will greatly impact you and your family. In October 19th 1987 the US suffered the worst market crash in history dropping 23% in just a few hours.. All around the world markets dropped by similar amounts about 10% of global GDP wiped off the map. The very next day the fed announced they would step in, and the following week they cut interest rates by half a point. They did the same thing this week. But here is the difference, back in 1987 rates were over 7% so half a point cut is not a big deal. Last week the rate went from 1.75 to 1 to 1.25%. Now dropping interest rates is one of the primary tools available to counter recessions. When you drop rates, people borrow more money, economy speeds up. Pretty basic premise. But we haven't even officially entered a recession and we are at one percent interest - what happens when we hit the recession? Where can you go from one percent or half percent interest rates? The answer is negative interest rates. Minus 1%, minus 2%, Many people still have not aware of this actual scenario but this is bizarro world, where you pay the bank for the privilege of holding your money, instead of them paying you. If you think that is crazy check this out. Negative interest rates are already here in other countries. Most bonds in Europe and japan, and about 30% of all investment grade debt worldwide carries negative yields already. Countries had no other choice than to instate this crazy scenario and it has not resulted in the desired outcomes. Now US policymakers dont want to go to negative interest, in fact, because of the connection with the derivatives market which is a trillion dollar house of cards itself, to do so would be catastrophic. Now keep in mind despite that risk, President Trump has suggested the fed should drop interest rates into the negatives, this is so the US government can refinance it's 23 trillion dollar debt. Yes every taxpayer in the USA officially owes about $189,000 of this ever growing debt. And it's not just the USA it is around the globe. Beyond the stock market we have other economic landmines like the student loan debt, second now only to mortgages as the highest consumer loan category, 45 million people hold 1.6 trillion in debt. 101 billion dollars from 5.1 million borrowers already in default. so 5.1 million people 1 year behind in payments. And that is how many are defaulting in a great economy what happens when the economy slows down? We also have the sub-prime car loans bubble, an inverted yield curve, which has with 100% accuracy always predicted recessions, massive derivatives bubble that some people suggest is globally over 1 quadrillion dollars, and this is horrifying, if you aren't aware of the derivatives issue Ill post a link at the ed of the video, we also have the collapse of retail, almost 10,000 retail stores closed last year, quantitative easing ie: printing money, we have election uncertainty, and of course, now on top of it all ....pandemics. So while silver didn't do well in recessions, and gold did just OK, it definitely makes sense to have some on hand. If you set aside a few dollars every week and add to your stack you may one day be happy that you did. Most people are spending money on fancy coffee and entertainment every day like the economy will last forever,but what if it doesnt? Buying gold & silver is easy, there are many reputable online providers like Kitco, goldsilver.com, bullionvault.com. In addition to gold there are many ways to insulate yourself from this economic downturn. Start a side hustle. If you have little to no money you can start a Youtube Channel, write a book, start a blog, become an affiliate. We live in the greatest time in history to make money. Even in recessions people still buy books, they watch video, they buy things. In fact in many recessions consumption of entertainment goes up, because people need entertainment to help them forget about how bad everything is. We just uploaded a video on side hustles and good business ideas in a recession, Ill post the link at the end of the video. Start or buy a business. The best way to protect your job in a recession is to be the boss. People think its crazy to start a business before or during a recession. Recessions are a great time to be in business we cover that in the next video. #goldinvesting #franchisecity #recession

How much do franchises actually make, and why is this information impossible to find? We look at 5 of the biggest names in food compare with popular industries like beauty, cleaning, senior care, staffing and more. We'll also explore franchises that can make as much or more as some of the big name food franchises, for an investment that is 10X less. According to a Franchise Business Review report, 51.5 percent of food franchises earn profits of less than $50,000 a year; only about 7 percent of food franchises have profits over $250,000. The average profit for all restaurants in the report was $82,033. You can see a very small amount of food franchises earn decent money and many owners are struggling or have bought themselves a job. Also keep in mind, if you are looking at a very established big name franchise, you get the leftovers in terms of territory. In most cases the owners making the most money are the locations that opened up long ago and received the best territories. And this is an argument we often hear, someone knows someone who owns 10 Dunkin Donuts and they did well, yes, but they bought them 20 years ago. There is 20 years worth of competition that has built up since that time. We look at both gross and net revenues today - For our aspiring entrepreneurs annual gross revenue - is the total amount of money that comes in to your store for all goods sold. Net income is how much money is left after you pay your rent, your payroll, your royalties, insurance and everything else. Net is really the important number who cares if you earn 10 million a year if your expenses are 11 million? There are other important numbers like discretionary income and EBITDA (earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortization) we'll cover those in a future video, today we'll keep it simple. The Highest grossing food franchise on the QSR50 is Chick Fil A. An average Chick-fil-A generates 4.16 million dollars annually and your investment is only $10,000. BUT - Chick-fil-a has a very different franchise model than other franchises, owners do not receive a traditional revenue split, or even ownership of the store. You'll earn a solid 6 figures, have limited risk, be part of a solid organization with traditional values but you do not own the store or gain any equity. It is also very difficult to get a restaurant Chick-fil-A receives 10's of thousands of applications every year and typically opens between 80-100 restaurants. Buying a McDonald's will cost $1,263,000 to $2,235,000 not including your real estate. many people think these big numbers includes real estate they do not. We'll cover what the expenses are involved in start a food franchise in a future video. The single highest earning franchise in the entire McDonald's system in 2019 that was open for at least one year grossed $12,457,000, the lowest location generated $557,000. Average system-wide gross revenues for stores open more than 1 year are $2,815,000. How much does the owner keep of that? Keep in mind your expenses, employees, rent, insurance, royalties, food costs all add up. Also your location has a huge impact on profits as rents in certain cities are very, very high, as are staffing costs in some states. If you are in a high traffic area with low rents and payroll that is the ideal scenario, but it can be hard to find good territories. Keep in mind that McDonald's franchises can and do lose money, some can net half a million dollars or more. General consensus is that a reasonable average net expectation for a McDonald's is around $150k per year. Dunkin Donuts financials breaks down earnings throughout the country so art the high end if you have a drive through freestanding building in the Northeast you'll average 1,397,936.00 and at the low end a freestanding restaurant with no drive thru in the west only $974,874.00. Senior care franchises are a massive growth industry right now, 10,000 boomers turning 65 every day and that trend will continue for many years. Not all franchises in this sector make millions but some do - up to 1.5 million. So you can potentially generate the same revenue as a Taco bell Franchise, 1.6 million per year, with an much lower investment - a Taco Bell franchise will cost about 1.6 million to open, a senior care franchise is around 100-150K. We also have a senior care franchise in our portfolio with a territory that generates an incredible 30 million dollars a year. Note that is almost 3 times higher than the highest earning McDonalds which is a 2.6 million dollar investment. Need Help Finding a Franchise? https://www.franchise.city/our-services #franchisecity #franchiseearnings

Can you become a millionaire overnight investing in currencies? Absolutely, however only a millionaire in currency of that country! Don't fall for this age old hard currency scheme - Iraqi Dinars and Vietnamese Dong are not a retirement plan! As the story goes, these 2 countries have currency that is supposedly highly undervalued, and as their infrastructures and economies improve, their money is destined to gain in value. Simultaneously, as the US economy starts to struggle, US dollar might drop in value, and your box of foreign money becomes worth a lot more. Now obviously as these companies are selling the money at a premium they are motivated to give you best case scenario. Some suggestions were that eventually these currencies could be on par with the US dollar making you extremely rich. So this is a brick of Vietnamese 1000 Dong notes. One million dong. Those of you in the cartels will know that a single strap of currency is 100 notes and a brick is 10 straps. That stands the same for any currency, and your total brick value will vary depending on the individual size of the banknote. So if you have a brick of US $100 bills you are doing OK. There are 100 notes per strap, and 10 straps total making this brick one million Vietnamese dong. If you have one of these you are a millionaire. At least a millionaire in Vietnam. Now in the USA you have about $100 value, I paid a bit more for the brick than market value, because it is an uncirculated brick, but you can buy individual large denomination notes for as low as about $60 per one million Dong. Some companies also suggest that Iraq may at some point in time revalue their currency which would make anyone holding Iraqi Dinars wealthy overnight. And these companies use the same old tactics, one company founder, Joshua Jay Hansen told investors, he was best friends with the president of the International Monetary Fund, had a special contract with the DOD and had a bank account with a $4 billion balance. He was arrested in 2016 and made to return 1.8 million dollars to investors. How can anyone raise 2 million from people when a single Google search yields dozens of warnings against this hard currency scheme Now is it fun to give this as a gift? Sure. Fun to have it sitting on your desk? Sure. Fun to finally call yourself a millionaire without lying? Maybe. But the chance that the Vietnamese dong, or Iraqi dinar ever goes anywhere near the US dollar is highly unlikely. In fact despite the Vietnamese economy continually improving over the last few years, the currency has dropped even further. You will not become a USD millionaire overnight investing in these schemes, but you can easily become an Iraqi or Vietnamese millionaire! http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/alerts/iraqi-dinar-scams.htm

Is it Possible to create passive income with little money? Yes, if you are willing to put in some work, and embrace a learning curve. FIRST: make a commitment you will stop clicking and start doing. Its easy to watch videos, say "oh that's neat, Ill do that someday". Someday never comes. Pick one thing, commit to doing it. Hack at it an hour or two every single day, learn, improve, get better, and in time you absolutely will have that passive income money coming in. Most people never even start, some start but give up quickly. If you want what other people don't have...... you need to do what other people don't do, and that's work. SECOND: When you do get started remember, it's not just you struggling, hitting obstacles, suffering. Gurus make it look like you wake up one morning and you're rich. Everyone goes through the struggle. Everyone feels like crying and throwing in the towel at some point. f you arent struggling, you are stagnating, so just keep plugging, and plugging, no shortcuts, take those hits you absolutely will succeed. PASSIVE INCOME 2020 #1 YOUTUBE: There are very specific steps you absolutely need to take to make sure your channel gets traction. Cost to get started - zero, you can start filming with your phone, build a channel, and create this lifetime of passive residual income. there is a sequence of events that absolutely has to be in place to make the channel succeed. Your thumbnails, frequency of uploading, increasing watch times and more. But all these things can be learned. Whether you like cooking, or doing reviews for products or electronics, unboxing channels make money, dog training, vlogging, gaming, poetry, ukulele, memes, plumbing, if you have your own local business, everyone has some type of expertise they can share with the world. Once your channel finally kicks in, there are multiple ways to monetize, including sponsorship, sales of products and YouTube monetization, so they pay you to place relevant ads on your videos. YouTube does all the hard work of finding appropriate advertisers, you just post content. We have videos we created 2 years ago, that generate ongoing income and will likely do so for years to come. Once a video gets indexed, it is literally generating revenue for you 24/7 365. Now we dont have time to cover all the steps here, but if you are interested in seeing step by step, exactly what you need to do to build a channel, subscribe to our new channel we'll show you how to build a channel from ground zero. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlfXbdlKmfP8jNK4i8i9Ug PASSIVE INCOME 2020 #2 Affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing can build years of relatively passive revenue. All you need is a website or even a blog. If you are willing to build the foundation, which can take a few months to a year, Its free to join most affiliate programs and you can represent any products you choose. You can promote Rolex watches from amazon or ebay, you can promote info products, you can promote web hosting, travel, most of the big travel sites have affiliate programs like travelocity, hotels.com and tripadvisor, you can sell thousands of products through aliexpress, there are fitness affiliate programs like bowflex, or bodybuilding.com, There are fashion programs like Eddie Bauer or Nordstrom, gaming affiliate programs like Twitch or Astro, Music like Singorama or guitar center, We have had good success with educational products, these are typically $1000 courses where you can earn up to $500 per single sale. We focus on University prep courses because they have a higher perceived value. There are millions of people at any given moment searching to buy all of these products. All you need to do is connect buyer and seller, and you get paid a commission. Everything has to be on point, your ad copy, your targeting, your page copy, but if you spend this couple of hours every day, come home after work, take 2 hours to learn and educate yourself, in a few months you can be generating a decent passive income. You can also build that blog, and once you get a few pages indexed in Google, those pages generate free money for months, possibly years to come. Tons of people are doing it from recipe blogs, vegans, home decor blogs, music, gaming, no matter what your passion or area of interest it absolutely can be monetized. I have always liked high ticket intangibles, like the educational products, they have healthy commissions, they offer good value to the buyer, is not much competition, and a healthy market demand. PASSIVE INCOME 2020 #3 Write a book. (Continued in video) OUR NEW CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlfXbdlKmfP8jNK4i8i9Ug BEST YOUTUBE TOOL: https://morningfa.me/invite/lzvg4evp One month free for paid option with this link. MORNINGFAME CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCASLfWxw8atzwL3ymPeuv2Q

A popular dream of many, opening a Bed and Breakfast is (supposedly) the greatest lifestyle business you can choose. But is it really? And how much can you even make owning a B&B or Motel? Last summer I almost succumbed to the romantic notion of of owning a Bed and Breakfast and started exploring the possibility of ownership. At first glance - what a great business, you buy a beautiful mansion, maybe by the ocean, you rent out rooms, maybe have a swanky restaurant as well, and its an all cash business. Here is how buyers think: I buy a B&B with 8 rooms, I rent those rooms for $200 a night, at peak capacity that is $1600 a day, $11,200 a week over $44,000 a month! Over half a million dollars just for smiling and welcoming people. And here is where most buyers stop researching because they dont want their dream shattered. So spoiler alert, if you dont want your dream shattered click away now. For you red-pill people - let's say we invested about one million dollars for this bed and breakfast and are grossing $500k annually. We won't get into ways of valuating a B&B but we'll use this fairly conservative number. So in most cases buyers will need to finance a portion of the investment which brings us to the first barrier to entry with your hotel or B&B. Financing. So the loan on your house was pretty easy right? Signed some papers and here is $800,000. Not so easy with a B&B. First, keep in mind if you get a commercial loan they'll typically need at least 25% down so you'll need $250K liquid available to invest. Now you can possibly get a residential mortgage in situations where your residential use is higher than commercial, but it can be risky. Also loans on commercial property are not secured by Fannie or Freddie so the banks are not wanting to part with their money quite as easily. Interest rates are higher than residential, and they can ask for a balloon payment, which means in a few years you are on the hook to pay off the entire amount, be aware of that. The banks will also want to see a complete business plan, so if you are buying a failing or struggling Bed and Breakfast chances are you will find it very difficult to find financing. There are a couple of SBA options in the US that can make things a bit easier but it will still be a challenge. We won't get much deeper on this topic but just be prepared to jump through a lot of hoops, and end up paying a lot more in fees and interest than you envisioned. But let's say you have money and will be buying your B&B or Motel cash. How much can you make with a Bed and Breakfast? Let's explore listings in my area. These listings are current and are not far off most listings I looked at across the country. So first we have a 12-14 room motel, asking $675K, revenue of $185 and cash flow of $100K, Next is a Motel and cottages, asking $650 cash flow of $50-$100k. The Castle Inn, asking just under a million, 13 rooms and 49 seat restaurant, cash flow between $50-$100k. Here is a hotel, asking 3 million, cash flow is $250K to $500k. Another one here 3.3 million asking with cash flow $250k to $500k. So most people never take the time to compare this industry with others, so they run their motel or B&B for years, never knowing if they made a good investment decision. So let's take a look. Here is another listing in that same directory for a QSR franchise restaurant. $175k investment, with cash flow pretty much the same as the $700,000 motels we looked at. Here is an Asian food franchise $225 asking with cash flow of $182,000. So an investment one third the price with cash flow almost double the amount over the motels. Here is an online business asking $265k cash flow of $87K. And these are just random examples that are on this directory today. I can tell you there are franchises available with a $100,000 investment that average 1.5 million annually gross. Now there are some nuances here as your expenses can tie back to building equity in your asset, but from a purely cash flow perspective, and you can check listings in your own area, this industry is just not a the top of the list. Now beyond brick and mortar businesses we also have online businesses, let's look at some current listings. So this is a listing right now on Empire Flippers - asking 1.4 million with a net monthly profit of almost $60,000. That's a 720,000 net profit a year. Remember our hotel for over 3 million dollars was cash flowing under $500k! Heres a technology app asking $500k with a net profit of almost a quarter of a million a year. And you will see most online businesses selling for between 20-40 times multiple of their monthly net earnings. So within 20-40 months you would have made your money back. There are hundreds of online businesses for sale at any given moment. So strictly from a revenue perspective, B&B's are often not the best bet. (Continued in video) Search Franchise Opportunities: https://www.franchise.city/ https://modernbnb.com/ #franchisecity #B&B

The Snap Fitness Franchise has an appealing business model. You invest a couple of hundred thousand dollars, sit back and money rolls in! But is it that easy? And how much can you actually earn owning a Snap Fitness? We'll take a look today on Franchise City. The cost to open a snap fitness franchise is between $153,980 to $529,899, depending on the size of club and a number of other local variables. You'll pay a fee of $569 every month to Snap Fitness, a National marketing fee of $275 per month, local marketing fund is $200 month, a member services fee of $1 per member, a membership processing fee of $5.90 for each new agreement and 61 cents each month. There are a few other fees we wont go into here, but we will give you the total amount that Snap Fitness earns from it's franchisees - stay tuned. The fitness franchise model is seductive. It's supposedly a passive model where you can keep your job, hire someone to run the club while you just sit back and make money. But let me ask you this. What happens if you can't find someone good to run your club. And finding the right fit can be challenging because they need to have a very specific skillset of sales and fitness. It's hard enough these days to retain quality people even in non-skilled labor situations with unemployment the lowest it's been in a while. So bear in mind that if you can't find anyone, or you keep losing your key manager, you will absolutely need to take a more active role in your club so be prepared to do so. If you are being told how easy it is to run a fitness club and it's completely passive, well it might be, and it might not be. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst and if your job or other business does not allow some flexibility you may want to reconsider. Also note that these revenue figures included personal training revenue, and not all clubs have that. Their own FDD states Personal training revenue varies widely by club depending on the ability to find qualified and motivated personal trainers, types of services and management of the personal training programs. In other words, it might be a challenge to find trainers. In which case you will need to back this revenue number out from your Gross annual cash flow. So even if you have a club that is higher than the average at 617 members, your $110,000 becomes $71,433, now you have to pay your staff, taxes, and everything else, whatever is left you get to keep. https://www.snapfitness.com/

Silver or Bitcoin? Do you think you know the answer while everyone else is wrong? We did a video on silver investing a few weeks ago. YouTube recently indexed it as the first page in Google search and all of a sudden we had a ton of traffic and comments. And thanks to everyone who commented always appreciated. In the video I stated: 1. I like silver. I own silver. I think everyone should own some. I then cited multiple reasons why you should buy silver, such as quantitative easing, 22 trillion in debt, longest bull market in history, hyperinflation and more. So I am a silver investor, and suggested people buy silver. But I also quoted some "statistics", actual numbers that showed how silver was affected by previous recessions since 1976. So what actually happened to silver since back then, during every recession. Spoiler alert, it mostly went down. And these weren't my numbers, I took them from the good people at Goldsilver.com, probably a website most metals bugs subscribe to. The response was fast and furious. We had a lot of people commenting who were angry. Listen - If you are emotionally impacted by hearing a small counter argument to your investment strategy you are no longer investing you are gambling. Let me ask you this, if your goal is to make the absolutely best investment decisions, do you not want to hear both sides of the story and have all the data you can gather? Investors can get hyper emotional about their investing, and closed off to hear the counter-arguments, even when they are statistics. Thats dangerous. It's an investment. You need to know the good AND the bad to make an educated decision. That's my job, telling people the good and the bad. You need to explore counter-arguments to your position to make a quality decision. And it's the same with Bitcoin, the same with franchises, the same with sports cards and real estate. The problem begins when we see what we want to see and continue with confirmation bias accepting information only from people who reinforce our own beliefs. It is this flaw of the human mind that can get us into trouble. So while I invest in silver, I also want to see why it might not be a good investment. I want to be aware of how Bitcoin might collapse, or how it might go to 1 million. And most importantly I want to be humble enough to never be 100% certain of anything and think that I am the only person in the world who has figured out the truth. If you invested $5,000 in Bitcoin in the early days you would have about $430,000,0000 today. Silver about $12,000. So we were wrong. Say it, it feels good, we were wrong on that one we missed the boat while other people are driving their lambos. And regardless whether bitcoin is a ponzi, if it is banished tomorrow, if it turns into another Tulip bubble, we missed that boat. And remember this, people made money in the tulip craze if they got in at the right time. Timing is everything. In that video we also covered the fact that in a real modern world collapse scenario, people in Venezuela started using cryptocurrency. It's just easier to use than metals. Let me ask you this, in the next economic collapse, where so many transactions happen online today do you really believe you are going to be mailing 15.29 grams of silver to amazon or ebay sellers to buy stuff? It makes no difference to me how you invest. But please ask yourself this question. In the next economic downturn, that may actually not happen in our lifetimes, or be as severe as some people expect, if your neighbor is able to buy things for their family just because they diversified and bought $300 of Bitcoin, and you sit there on a stack of silver that nobody wants to accept, how would that make you feel. Maybe we are right. Maybe silver shoots to the moon. But I will never be so arrogant to suggest I know everything, I should invest everything I have in silver, and I know exactly how the future will play out. Especially if I never, ever looked at any counter arguments, I only looked at information that validated my position. If you want to make smart decisions in life, not only investing but anything, explore the counter arguments. Look at both sides at why the decisions you are making might not be a good choice. Once you have both sides, now make the decision. Guys I think you are right, I literally moved from the city I am so spooked by what I think is coming. I love it here anyway but I am completely aware that I might be wrong. That the future may not play out the way I expect. The world is filled with people who went all in on real estate, silver, stocks, because they were convinced of their own infallibility. at the end of the day all we can do is be informed not biased, diversify as much as possible, don't keep all your eggs in one basket and remain humble enough to explore all sides of the story, not just that which reinforces your existing beliefs. NEW CHANNEL! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlfXbdlKmfP8jNK4i8i9Ug

How much money can you earn with a Krispy Kreme Franchise? How much does it cost to open a Krispy Kreme? Is owning a Krispy Kreme a good investment? We’ll look at that and some dirt on the mega franchise today on Franchise City. Krispy Kreme was founded by Vernon Rudolph in 1937. He bought a unique recipe and started off with $25 in a rented a building in Winston Salem North Carolina, oddly enough he moved there because his favorite cigarette company, Camel brands was headquartered there. After renting his location he had no money left and had to convince a convenience store owner to lend him money to make the first donuts. At the time Krispy Kreme sold mostly to convenience stores but would also sell to customers who walked in between midnight and 4am during the production time of the donuts. In the 50’s they created the dooughnut making machine, which revolutionized the process. The company grew over the years, Was sold to Beatrice foods in the 70’s and they actually sold products like soap at Krispy Kreme locations, and had the nerve to change the original doughnut recipe. In 1982 unhappy franchisees banded together and took back the company. The company went public in 2000, and by 2002 was making 5 million doughnuts a day and had 250 stores in 37 states and Canada. Shortly after going public Krispy got into trouble for an accounting scandal, the stock plummeted from a high of $50 to $4 due to slumping sales and problems growing their franchise chain.To address the slumping sales executives at Krispy used some sleight of hand, meaning they fibbed about the numbers to inflate the stock prices. They got caught and were taken to task by the SEC,. They got a slap on the wrist, three former executives paid a total of $150,000 in fines and $632,919 in ill-gotten gains and interest. Krispy Kreme was sued in 2016 for 5 million dollars by a customer who claims to have suffered economic harm. Irina Agajanyan commenced a class-action suit against the company for using words such as “blueberry” and “maple” in the names of doughnuts when the doughnuts do not actually contain these ingredients. The case asked for $1,000 in damages for anyone who had to suffer paying for a doughnut and not actually getting any blueberry or maple. That case was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice which means it could be refiled at a future date. To open a Krispy Kreme location will cost you $1,287,500 to $2,750,000 for a Factory Store; $558,500 to $1,500,000 for a Tunnel Oven Shop; $440,500 to $1,200,000 for a Fresh Shop; $200,500 to $453,000 for a Box Shop; and $1,617,500 to $4,115,000 for a Commissary Facility. If you are wondering what those are and are interested in investing in a Franchise give franchise city a call. Royalties are low at 4.5% but keep in mind this is paid on net sales, not gross. You will also pay up to a 2% brand fund, up to a 1% ad placement fund, a minimum of 2.5% on local advertising, and up to 3% for regional or national advertising. That can end up being as high as 13% right off the top of your net sales. Keep in mind as a Krispy Kreme owner you will not receive territory protection. The FDD states you will not have exclusive territory so you could face competition from corporate stores or other franchisees if they open nearby. How much can a Krispy Kreme franchise owner earn? Well franchises have the ability to list revenues in what is called the Item 19 of their disclosure documents. They don’t have to but when they do it’s a positive sign they have nothing to hide. Krispy Kreme does not list any financial data in their item 19. This is a bit iof a red flag. Another concern is that Krispy Kreme indicates a net closure of 13 franchises last year. We counted a total of 27 franchisees who were either re-acquired by the company or had to close their doors. So is Krispy Kreme a good investment? That will be for you to decide. if you need help researching the best franchise our service is free to qualified buyers you can learn more here. https://www.franchise.city/our-services https://krispykreme.com/ #franchisecity #krispykreme

Sand, water and cement can be transformed into sculptures, statues, pillars, counter tops and costs pennies to produce. A low investment profitable business idea and as easy to start as taking a small rubber mold, filling it up with ingredients that cost you pennies, let it dry and selling them for $80- $100.00 over and over again. When you think of a concrete business you probably think big cement trucks, slabs of concrete and millions of dollars to start up, it can become that big but it does not have to, you can actually get started right in your backyard or garage. And the beauty of this small business is that the margins are huge, and you really don't need specialized experience or training. You are taking these 4 raw materials, namely sand, gravel, Portland cement and water, all of them free or very inexpensive, mixing them together,then transforming them into a statue, column, birdbath, garden bench or whatever, and people will pay anywhere from 10 to 100 times what you paid for the raw materials. There are literally hundreds of ways to transform sand, water, gravel and Portland cement into money we'll show you a few of those today. One of the first small businesses my wife and I started a long, long time ago was a landscaping company. Eventually we began including concrete statues in our service offerings as an upsell to customers. So birdbaths, statuary, Buddha heads, columns, you name it, and people love this kind of stuff in their yards. After getting tired of paying so much for these items, even at wholesale prices we looked into making them ourselves. It was surprisingly easy, and our margins now became huge because it costs almost nothing for the raw materials. You have probably seen these types of concrete sculptures and statues all over, at local businesses, in peoples yards, a lot of people even have the smaller concrete sculptures like the lanterns in the interior of their homes. But you probably didnt know how these statues are made or where they came from. So you buy molds, and there are molds available for almost anything you can think of, angels, fountains, pillars, statuary, pagodas, animals and more. Once you make a few of these you can sell your products on local classified sites like kijiji or craiglist using free ads, you can sell these wholesale to local garden centers, you can sell these at swap meets or flea markets, you can sell these to landscaping companies. We eventually had several local commercial clients who would buy 5-10 of these a month. If your prices are good people will buy these. Because these are so heavy, shipping is expensive so I wouldnt recommend this as an online business, but people do sell these online as well. Here are some small Pagodas listed on Wayfair, these are currently a very popular item you can see they are selling for hundreds of dollars, a more ornate one here for $700. And here is a listing on Alibaba for a similar pagoda concrete mold, you can buy 2 of these for $50 and crank out probably dozens of pagodas before your molds wear out. If you do go this route there are ways to lighten the final product by mixing things like styrofoam in your mix to make it lighter for shipping. Depending on your market and budget you can start with smaller molds and smaller items, this is a small angel mold we used to have, then work your way up to some of the bigger more complex molds like the water fountains or big statues that sell for many hundreds or even thousands of dollars, but these are more difficult to work with and the molds are quite expesnive. you can actually make your own molds. regular viewers to the channel might remember in older videos I had a Buddha head behind me. Well my wife took that Buddha head to make a concrete mold. You cover it with Brushable polyurethane rubber, let it dry, and you now have a mold for concrete that you can make hundreds of Buddha heads to sell that literally cot you pennies. This one we only use at home for our own personal use, here is one in our own garden, and the original piece could be trademarked so be careful and make sure of that before you make them. https://www.franchise.city/boulder-designs Boulder Design Franchise #franchisecity #smallbusinessideas

Interested in Real Estate but have a low risk tolerance or little money? Like to co-own part of a mansion? We explore unique low investment, low risk niches in the Real Estate industry. Stay tuned until the very end we'll show you a very unique way to get started in Real Estate with zero money and potentially create a 6 figure income. First off lets look at REIT's. REIT's have been very strong this year some producing over 20% returns. REIT stands for Real Estate Investment Trust and the neat thing about REIT's is they allow you to buy shares in commercial real estate portfolios that generate income. So you can literally be, technically, part owner of a pool of apartment buildings, shopping malls, hotels, self storage facilities, even farmland and others. So while most investors don't have the money to buy a shopping mall, and maybe dont want the hassle of managing the property, you can buy shares within a portfolio of commercial properties in a REIT. The easiest way to buy them is through a broker, just like a stock, pool your money with other investors and share in the revenue generated by these buildings. Another advantage of a REIT is they typically hold a diverse number of properties which can spread the risk rather then being tied up in a single property. You can invest in Equity REITS, the most popular, and these entities buy, own and manage income producing properties and revenue is generated mostly through rents. There are also Mortgage REITS and Hybrids, we wont cover those here. Homevestors. We did a video on this franchise last week. I'm sure you all have seen the "We Buy Ugly Houses" advertising everywhere as Homevestors spends around 50 million dollars a year. But what many people don't know is that Homevestors is a franchise. They have over 1100 franchise owners in 144 markets across the USA. So investors can buy a franchise under the Homevestors umbrella, receive complete training on the processes, benefit from industry connections, access to capital and 100% financing of deals, and most importantly, benefit from the massive influx of leads their advertising generates. Owning a franchise allows you to flip properties, or fix them up and rent them out, depending on the owners preference. Now many people suggest they can get into real estate on their own, and you can, but Homevestors will ensure you know how to valuate, how to rehab, where to find houses, mistakes to avoid, selling the house and more. Most owners will tell you they typically lost more money making mistakes than the homevestors franchise fee. So Homevestors is a way to get into Real Estate, but with the support of a major national brand and their training system. Franchise fee for Homevestors is $30,000 plus you'll need some working capital that amount will range depending on what city you are in. A smaller city your all-in investment will be as low as $60K, for big cities like LA or New York probably closer to $250k. https://youtu.be/WOYFxmNb0QU Property Management Franchise https://youtu.be/eX2SyQyZ358 One way to reduce risk and still benefit from capital appreciation is investing in Fractional real estate. This is more of a fun, potentially lucrative way to invest in some really cool Real Estate. We have been involved with a number of fractional real estate projects over the years. So this concept actually started with business jets where several buyers would all go in on a jet and each would have certain days or months to use the jet on a rotational basis. With fractional real estate you are typically buying an equity position into a property that you would not be able to afford on your own, or just dont need 12 months a year access. So you could create this scenario with 12 friends where you all put down $120k and buy a mansion in Costa Rica, Each buyer would get 1 month access to the house which you could either rent out and keep the revenue, use it for an amazing vacation each year, or a combination of both, rent for 2 weeks and stay for 2 weeks. Because managing these properties can be a pain investors often rely on the expertise of a company that specializes in identifying and managing these types of properties. You can invest in fractionals all over the world from condo hotels, to mansions and resorts. Fractionals are different than timeshares in that you actually own the property and therefore benefit from any capital appreciation that happens. Not that there are not bad fractional deals, there are, you have to look for the good ones. A project we are currently involved with is the Wyndham Halcyon in a gorgeous region of France, guaranteed returns for 20 years. Fractional ownership starts as low as $16k euros, or just under $18k US dollars at current rates. Full ownership is available from around $180k euros. http://halcyon-retreat.com/the-seagus-corporation-halcyonretreat Sorry YouTube caps us at 5k words! More in the video. #franchisecity #realestateinvesting

Want to see if this franchise is a good fit? Free data, reports and consulting: https://youtu.be/HDrFegUMSZI DO NOT CONTACT THE FRANCHISES DIRECTLY IF YOU INTEND TO USE OUR SERVICE! "We Buy Ugly Houses", or Homevestors, is a franchise that allows owners to build a real estate empire in their local area. Everyone in the USA has likely seen the caveman themed billboards and commercials and "We Buy Ugly Houses" spends around 50 million dollars a year on advertising. And while the company is very well known, a lesser-known fact is that the "We Buy Ugly Houses" company, or Homevestors, is actually a low-cost franchise that helps franchise owners enter the Real Estate market buying Ugly Homes and building a local real estate empire. They are one of the top 3 fastest growing Franchises in the USA and currently have over 1000 franchisees across the nation. One of the benefits of owning a franchise is brand recognition and market credibility. "We Buy Ugly Houses" has done an amazing job with that. The benefit to the home sellers who see this advertising is they can have a franchisee come to their home, which is often in disrepair, in rough shape, and receive cash money quickly. This is often in situations where people really need the money so as a franchisee you are helping people in your community. As a franchisee, you are building a Real Estate Empire in your own local community, buying these ugly houses from distressed sellers. You can either hold these properties as a rental, flip the house for an immediate profit, or fix up the house and flip it. Homevestors has an appealing operational model that many owners like, it is a work from home business with a flexible lifestyle and a low investment. But there is an objection we almost always receive, and it is a valid question "why would I buy a franchise when I can just do Real Estate on my own. That's a great question, and part of what we do here is to help buyers understand the business models and market benefits of these franchises so they can make an educated decision based on facts rather than speculation. Many of the franchise owners in the "We Buy Ugly Houses" franchise system were experienced investors before they purchased a franchise. These were people who were already successfully investing in Real Estate, but saw the benefits of the franchise and joined as a franchisee. So what exactly are those benefits? As an independent you are always battling against everyone else for the same repos, REO'S, foreclosures, bank sales, you often have the same local investors chasing the same deals in the the community. This often results in having to pay a premium price or lose these sales. Obviously when you pay a premium price your profit margin is much less. We Buy Ugly Houses opens up a distinct market where you have zero competition, thousands of people call in based on their advertising every year and these calls are actually routed directly to you as a franchisee. By having access to this exclusive and very fertile market franchisees get much better deals, which of course results in higher profits. Also, "we buy ugly houses" is a household name, when you walk in to speak with the Homeowner you already have the instant credibility from hundreds of millions of dollars spent on advertising. Next is the "We Buy Ugly Houses" software, called ValueChek that helps valuate the home right on site. By punching in data the software, based on thousands of situations, calculates what you should pay based on the repairs required, size of home, the area, and many other factors. Without this software, unless you are a highly experienced buyer, and sometimes even if you are, you run the risk of overpaying. Next is financing. Because of the enormous amount of business they bring Homevestors receives preferential financing rates and franchisees benefit from up to 100% financing of properties. Obviously with any deals the finance rate has a huge impact on your bottom line, as does the ability to finance all of your acquisitions. As an independent you simply can't get these rates. And finally productivity and buyer network. Many independent investors will cap out at 1-3 homes per month, Homevestors, because of their processes many franchisees are able to double the number of deals they are doing, which helps build your empire more quickly. Also, sales are very often done with other franchisees within the system, so you can do a quick flip, make money and get in and out quickly. The franchise fee is $30,000, your total expected investment will vary depending on your market, so smaller markets your all-in investment might be about $60,000 - larger markets like New York would likely be closer to $250,000. We can help you determine what your investment would be. Homevestors Franchise: https://www.franchise.city/homevestors-of-america Our Franchise Buyer Services (Don’t Make a Mistake!) https://www.franchise.city/our-services #franchisecity #realestate

Home Inspection Franchises are a low investment, home based business, but is it worth paying for a franchise in this industry? And how much can you earn? There are a few industries that we get push back from people because in their mind if you aren't getting a big brand name like McD's there is no value in the franchise model. We get that with painting, we get it with cleaning, we get it with property management and with home inspections. But in these businesses you arent necessarily buying the branding, you are buying access to systems and processes that if they are good, will make you more effective and efficient which equals more money. Things like as client acquisition, business operations, quality standards, efficiencies and dozens of other little things that can help you actually make more money in the long run even after paying royalties. With a good franchise there is also a support structure in place if you have questions, or get stuck you can call someone and ask. And while you may know how to paint and clean,or inspect a house do you know how to scale a business? Grow a business? Most people do not and thats why we see many independent inspectors actually converting to a franchise model. So how does home inspection work. You, or your employee receives training on how to inspect a house, get certified by one of the governing bodies, then you help people, usually home buyers, look for potential issues when they are buying a house. Typically will look at the roof, electrical, plumbing, basement and foundation, walls and windows, and you can add extra services like mold and radon testing for a fee. The average home inspection not including extras is currently about $315. Many will charge more for value added services and being the cheapest isn't always the best strategic market positioning, that's mistake many novice business owners make. But even $315 is not bad for a couple of hours of work. You might ask how many inspections could you actually do in a day? I headed over to the Int'l Association of Certified Home Inspectors forum, and the consensus was you could theoretically do up to 5 inspections a day if you worked ridiculously hard, no one recommended it because you would have no life, and is virtually impossible to keep that up, and your quality is certain to suffer, but 5 inspections a day X $315 X 260 working days a year would be $409,500 dollars with one person, not even considering hiring other inspectors and scaling your business. Because this is a work from home gig your expenses and operational costs are very low so a decent amount of that gross revenue goes into your pocket. Now even if you took it easy and did only 2 inspections a day you are still grossing over $150k a year ($163,800) Before we look more closely at the franchise model let's look at that forum comment again "I did 5 inspections once this year. It is too many. I regularly do 4 and that is hard as well. Performing the inspection isn’t the issue, it is **producing the reports as you quickly fall behind volume. So here is a key distinction, if you have technology that can speed up the reports, you can do more inspections in a day. And that is the reason people buy a home inspection franchise, because among other things they have systems and processes and technologies that help you be more efficient. When people come to us to help them find the best home inspection franchise, or any franchise we have consultants that walk you through the process looking at many factors to find the best for your specific situation. We'll cover a few of those today. So the first as we just mentioned is the technology. There are companies that have the ability to complete up to 80% of the report right onsite, while you are doing the inspection, enabling the inspector to do more inspections per day. There are a few other technology considerations we won't go into here but you want to drill down on the inspection technology they have, and how much benefit it brings. Does it justify the royalties you will pay. Next up is customer acquisition. Some franchise buyers gravitate to home inspection because they like that solo operation, lone wolf in the field, and they might be a bit introverted and not be very socially outgoing. Which is fine ---if the company is doing lead generation for you. Some franchises rely very heavily on local networking, so you will need to be hanging out at Realtor offices, buying donuts, regularly shmoozing to get business. If you are a people person that's fine, but always make sure the client acquisition model matches your personality and operational preferences. For the right person a home inspection franchise can be a good fit especially. If you need help identifying and comparing home inspection franchises, our service is 100% free click below to learn more. https://youtu.be/VlQfEea0BCI --OUR SERVICES HTTPS://WWW.FRANCHISE.CITY https://forum.nachi.org/t/5-inspections-in-one-day/96382/2 #franchisecity