Study the City Ordinances, County Codes and Federal Laws When Franchising

Many franchise opportunity buyers see a great new concept and want to get in on the ground floor, what they may not understand is that their city has an ordinance against such types of businesses, their county has rules concerning such companies, and their state has additional regulations that are untypical to other states. Suffice it to say it's important to check the local, state, and federal laws concerning such a business prior to the purchase of the franchise.

In many franchise agreements it states that the franchisee must comply with all local, regional, state and national laws, and thus, any additional costs associated with compliance once the business is opened is indeed the sole responsibility of that franchisee. Now then, having been in the franchising industry for 2-decades before early retirement, I have seen a number of for instances, and solid reasons for recommending that franchise buyers; Check the Local Ordinances before purchasing a franchise business opportunity, but let me give you just one to illustrate this.

One of our franchise companies was a Mobile Oil Change Service Business. We noted that a number of cities in and around Los Angeles County had ordinances against mobile auto services in business improved parking lots (of various zoning), home driveways on any public street. Thus, we didn't bother trying to sell any franchises there, but our franchising competition did. Once the franchisees bought their franchises with assigned territories they couldn't even work in things got nasty.

The disgruntled franchisees were seeking litigation, but against the big guns of their franchisor choose not to. Their loss turned out to be our gain, as we hired one of them, and allowed the other to join our franchise team after their termination and the non-compete clauses ran out. Still, this is a good lesson for any franchise opportunity buyer, so please remember; Check the Local Ordinances before you buy your franchise.

3 Tips to Help Fight a Speeding Ticket

When speeding no one is wishing to get a speeding ticket. Often people speed because they are late for work, or they need to pick up their kids or many different reasons that they feel it is important to get where they are going quickly.  Once you get a speeding ticket it is just the beginning of your problems because now you have to worry about  increase insurance cost and points on your license. Should you get a ticket here are three tips to help fight a speeding ticket.

There first tip starts as soon as you are pulled over. Stay calm and cooperate with the police officer following the instructions that he gives you. If you are annoyed are angry with having been pulled over, keep a cool head and be courteous to the police officer.

The second tip is to consider going to court to defend your ticket, when you send in your money and pay the fine, you don't give yourself a chance for any other outcome. When you go to court, if the police officer does not show, often the case is dismissed.

The third and finale tip is to make sure you make your court date on time. Don't be late to court, you don't want to aggravate the judge by not being their on time. You don't want to make the judge unlikely to care what your defense is by having him annoyed that you were late.

When you get a ticket you problems are starting, you have to worry about points and insurance. These three tips should help you fight a speeding ticket.