A guy I used to work with left the company to buy a Hire-a-Hubby franchise.

From memory he said the process was quite smooth in applying etc.

He had to do up a proper 'business plan' with forcasts etc. I remember him saying he spoke with a financial planner type person to get all of the figures etc together.

There was a large outlay of cash to buy the franchise ($30,000 springs to mind??)

I kept in touch with him briefly after he had started and he said the first couple of weeks were tough on his body - getting used to working outside rather than sitting in an office. But last time I spoke to him, he was loving it. He was only working 3.5 days a week and earning well over $1000 p/w in that time.