[dandandan]

Is Rainbow International a good franchise investment?

[John Kelly]

It can be good for fire & flood restoration.

[clinton]

Hi dan

good to see your out of hibernation

[psg]

From an X rainbow Franchisee.

Its all right if you don't mind being dictated on how to run your business and where you spend your money within the business, what hours to operate the business are prepared to employ a number of staff to administer the business, change your vans when they tell you, have a work shop unit not less than 1200 sq ft, produce monthly statistics at the drop of a hat when you work it out you get around 18-19% at the end of the year.  You can then work out if you have a crap franchise area you are stuffed. I could go on and on if you drop me a contact number I will give you a call.

PSG.

[Les]

But apart from that they're a good company then ?! 

Les

[clinton]

 

[derek west]

if you wanna be a manager then go franchise, if you wanna be the boss go it alone.
derek

[Mike Halliday]

you can't ignore the fact that the majority of multi-van companies are Franchisess,  for some if does work

[clinton]

What about servicemaster they do ok

A good franchise to get is green thumb a lawn care set up,the guy who i know does a good turn over and profitt is exellent

[jon777]

I hear their franchises are not so easy to come by as the likes of service master chem dry etc.

Must be somthing in that???

[derek west]

chem dry are cramming them in, we got 2 round here and i'm forever hearing bad things about them. rainbow and service master are really hard to get into, the latest one thats easy is hydro dynamix, they have the contract for the odeon at the trafford centre, £12000 contract.
derek

[gwrightson]

Chem dry are now owned by Homeserve , are they not?
are homeserve a franchise c/cleaning in thier own right ? not sure on that one.

of course their are a number of smaller franchises , safe clean been one that spring to mind.

Derick , dont worry about having 2 on your door  I have about 5 , I think its good for business.

geoff

[clinton]

Derek

Your right about them cleaning the trafford cemter as they were there last week when i was doing some cleaning there

[jamieexpress]

Hi i have a Servicemaster franchise when i joined two years ago alot of people were putting me off after meeting rainbow and chemdry i went for the servicemaster as it was a cheaper option and within 2 months i had got my money back.

Not all franchises are the same although i dont hear that many good things about rainbow in the areas that i cover.

Jamie.

[derek west]

2 months!
£30,000
looks like i made the wrong choice in going it alone.
awww bugger.
derek

[jamieexpress]

Have u got a franchise derek?

[derek west]

no jamie. i took the long road. and fck me is it long.
derek

[jamieexpress]

I do honestly feel for guys like you. If i was reliant just on carpet cleaing i would be screwed. To be honest i dont do any carpet cleaning now i pass it all to a guy who is truck mounted in my area.

I bought a capret clenaing business that had been established for 5 years last year for 10k it has een a complete waste of money and time i have since cut the phones off. I sm in the process of taking over another area next to mine with servicemaster.

[derek west]

so how much was your sm franchise if ya don't mind me asking, and how did you generate it back in 2 months?
derek

ps... dont worry bout me, i like a challenge, makes it more interesting.

[jamieexpress]

It cost me 20 k it would have been 25 but i had a rotary and ninja. Within the first 2 weeks of starting i had 2 fires in and around 10 escape of waters within the first 5 weeks. I joined at the time of the hull floods and worked for servicemaster within the floods. I thought i had made the bigest mistake of my life the day i paid my money becasue i had spoken to the guy who had the area before me just as i paid. He put me on a downer. It was the way he run the franchise hence why he lost everything and he had 3 areas ive only got one. We may not get the number of jobs in that rainbow get and chem dry but what we get is of high value.