[simbo]

a brain, a bath, an mot, decent ladder, proper cloths, clean water, decent attitude 
can't stand the ones with attitude, its a crappy job which pays well if done properly, end of. i do enjoy some of the great people i meet though

[richard jagger]

more higher priced work.

[Londoner]

I know what you are saying,but I don't see them things on
On your list as much hassle for an extra 30%.me and my wife
Spend between us about 5-10 hours a week running one van
And one staff.

Saying that iam interested in the franshise route,what worries
Me,is he may screw up all the work he is given

It's all in picking the right person. Train him well and check his work for the first few weeks. I have it written into the contract that if more then 4 customers are lost in one monthy period, the contact is void.

You only have one van but how many hours would you need to spend if you had 5 vans. Ian Lancaster has 8 franshisees, how much time would you spend on admin if you had 8 vans on the road. How much would your insurance bill be, diesel and so on. You would have to buy those 8 vans too.

You can't do that, I regularly lose four customers in a month just through natural wastage.

[Window Washers]

I know what you are saying,but I don't see them things on
On your list as much hassle for an extra 30%.me and my wife
Spend between us about 5-10 hours a week running one van
And one staff.

Saying that iam interested in the franshise route,what worries
Me,is he may screw up all the work he is given

It's all in picking the right person. Train him well and check his work for the first few weeks. I have it written into the contract that if more then 4 customers are lost in one monthy period, the contact is void.

You only have one van but how many hours would you need to spend if you had 5 vans. Ian Lancaster has 8 franshisees, how much time would you spend on admin if you had 8 vans on the road. How much would your insurance bill be, diesel and so on. You would have to buy those 8 vans too.

You can't do that, I regularly lose four customers in a month just through natural wastage.

if I only lost 4 customers a month I would be very happy not sacking them

[Ian Lancaster]

It's all in picking the right person. Train him well and check his work for the first few weeks. I have it written into the contract that if more then 4 customers are lost in one monthy period, the contact is void.

I take it you wrote your own contract David?  If losing 4 customers a month means the contract is 'void' then that means your franchisee no longer has to adhere to it.  In other words he would be perfectly entitled to walk off with your customers.  If by 'void' you mean he has breached the terms of his contract and you are then entitled to terminate it you could be on very dodgy ground if it went to a court case.  A judge could, and probably would deem the '4 losses and out' bit as unfair and would therefore declare the whole contract unfair and unenforceable in law.  You also need fair and enforceable 'post termination obligations' to prevent him canvassing your customers after he leaves you.

I wrote my own contract in the fiirst place, but when I took it to a franchise lawyer I was horrified at how I was at risk of losing everything because my contract wasn't enforceable in law.  She completely rewrote it and added loads of things I would never have thought of.