Before I opened my firm I was with a national r/e franchise.

Our firm's specialty is with alternative investments, such as real estate, tax liens, private mortgages, or private lending, franchises, horses, etc, inside retirement accounts.

Those are franchises so its very possible you will have several KW brokerages and several remax brokerages in your area all offering something different.

I still have to pay the $800 Franchise tax to California for each LLC since I'm doing business here and reside here. 

I currently own a Liberty Tax Service franchise, two investment properties and I consult for a start-up company out of Indiana.Now that tax season is over, I'm looking to expand my real estate portfolio.

On the other hand one of the most successful real estate agents I know built his brand with local owner brokers of three national real estate franchises (C21, CB, and now KW).

Sure 1  McDonalds sells 4,000 Big Macks a day for $2.00 a piece, sounds like they are taxed on $8,000 a day, But the truck to drive it there costs, the burger costs, the lettuce costs, the franchise fee costs, the employees and their employment taxes cost, the lights cost, the driveway pavement costs, the water for the bathrooms cost, the depreciation for the new chairs cost, the land tax costs.

I got an estimate from one of the largest chains for ~$450+ monthly fees (national/regional/local franchise fees) plus 75/25 commission split.

It’s so well developed that I’m thinking about franchising the business in the coming years.Your success is based on several factors.Firstly, you have to know real estate through and through.

And, I also am in negotiation of buying into a franchise (not RE related) to continue diversifying my investments, and career choices/movements.