{"id":948,"date":"2010-02-23T07:03:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T07:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expandsmtest.com\/franchiseking\/franchisees-landlords-and-root-canals\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T01:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T01:30:59","slug":"franchisees-landlords-and-root-canals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/franchisees-landlords-and-root-canals","title":{"rendered":"Franchisees, Landlords, And Root Canals; Negotiating A Lease For Your Franchise Location"},"content":{"rendered":"

You did it! <\/strong>You've invested in a franchise business of your own. You're all set up to go to your franchisors headquarters for training. Before you know it, your small business loan payments will be due.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I know that your ready to open a franchise<\/strong>–your<\/em> franchise! There's still one thing missing, however…..<\/p>\n

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Your location! Where the heck are you going to open for business? And how do you negotiate a lease with a commercial real estate agent?<\/span>
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You've undoubtedly put hundreds of miles on your car, doing some preliminary checking for possible sites for your new business. (Actually, you've been totally obsessed<\/span> with finding that perfect location, and everybody around you is sick of hearing that you've "found it," over and over again<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Franchise headquarters has assigned a real estate professional to work with you, to help you secure a prime spot.<\/p>\n

Just when it seems that you'll never "find it", you do.<\/span><\/strong> Now the real fun begins.<\/em> I'm talking root canal<\/span><\/strong> kind of fun. Are you feeling it? Heck, let's go with multiple root canals<\/span><\/strong>, because you're about to embark on a commercial leasing adventure that you never anticipated you'd be taking…<\/p>\n

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I'll wager that you really want to read the rest of this post now, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dealing with the landlord, or his or her representative, isn't as bad as I just made it out to be. (I'll admit it. I was being selfish. I was having fun with the root canal analogy, and it made a great blog headline<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Recently, I wrote about some great reasons to buy a franchise<\/a><\/strong>. Well, I'm adding to it now;<\/p>\n