He moved to FL, and closed the franchise, so now I am back to traditional methods.  

On the flip side, if you are wanting to hire experienced agents, they are harder to recruit and usually will be less dependent on the services you offer and more likely to be shopping brokerages based on monthly fees, more competitive commission splits, the opportunity to cap at 100%, fewer or no franchise fees.

Not sure what the answers are but I do wonder if the transfer is not immediately taxable in CA, whether the LLC will be subject to the $800 CA Franchise Tax Min charge, and whether CA will require you to pay income tax if you later dispose of the replacement TX property in a taxable transaction.

I have tried to start a property preservation business in the past, but it failed in my small town because everyone was already using Servepro and another franchise to do all of that for them at the time.

I'm considering opening a Coffee Franchise in my area and would really appreciate below answers from people in this line of work:1)  What are the exit options once you own a Franchise?

In 1973 commercial private mortgage lending got a boost when an area franchise developer for Weight Watchers International sold his business and decided to take the $15 million proceeds and provide commercial mortgage second liens to fill some of the gap on commercial property purchases.California mortgage brokers have been advertising high interest investments in private mortgages since the early 1960s.

If not I would go work for one, maybe one of the bigger ones in your area for a year or two before you go out on your own and spend a fair amount of money on a franchise. 

At the end of 2020 I purchased a restoration franchise called AdvantaClean that services from Chapel Hill to Fayetteville, Sanford to Dunn which amongst other things specializes in Mold, Water Damage, and Duct Cleaning.   

Property description: National brand auto repair franchise locations (2 locations are multi-tenant) that have been in business and profitable for nearly 15 years.

@Crystal Shepherd people weren't offended but the lord of the rings and the hobbit franchise sure wanted their cut to use the name.