| In the franchising industry many service firms can | | | | company; CarWashGuys.com, we used franchisees in |
| excel by collecting national accounts, which have | | | | ID into WA and OR into WA; also NJ into NY and SC, |
| outlets in many states. Each franchisee can help with | | | | TN into VA. Etc. But it is not only the franchise |
| the over all multi-state National Corporate Account. | | | | registration states. The Federal Government also has |
| Only one problem; many franchising companies | | | | their heads up their asses, the disclosure docs being so |
| purposely choose not to do business in certain states | | | | lengthy you may as well invite your competitors both |
| such as WA, CA, MD, NY and IL.When discussing this | | | | foreign and domestic into your office for the day to go |
| recently with one academic professor he advised a | | | | thru all your computers, banking records and files.That |
| strategy might be to do what many bootleggers did in | | | | is not workable and indeed it very much hurts |
| the past by putting bars just over the borders of | | | | America, too bad really, we need downsizing of |
| prohibition states. Interesting indeed and his comments | | | | regulations all the way around. Franchising is a good |
| about cross border services from one franchise | | | | venue, but when you are in a good business model |
| registration state to another is worthy. For instance MI, | | | | why share it, with those who can too easily sue you |
| IN, KY are notification states and not issues. IL is a | | | | after they put out piss poor performance and you |
| tough nut to crack.Indeed you could run units from a | | | | terminate for such. I would rather keep my money not |
| cross border state HQ'ered franchisee. We have done | | | | pay it to professional parasitical lawyers and Caesar |
| this previously in order to serve large accounts in my | | | | was correct. Consider this in 2006. |