The 1st Propane Home Based Franchise

1st Propane is based out of Rancho, Murieta, California, and was formed in 1990. Propane has been in use for over seventy-five years and is used by millions of homes and businesses. The 1st Propane company provides propane delivery on a predetermined schedule to farms, homes, and business for use in space heaters, cooking, water heating, fireplaces, barbeques, weed burning, crop drying, and many other uses. The company began offering its business concept and business strategies as a franchise in 1998.

Franchise buyers of a 1st Propane franchise are provided with initial training of up to one week at the company's headquarters. Additional training is provided at the franchisee's location for up to three weeks. This four week training period is designed to teach you the 1st Propane way of doing business. Continuing support is provided to franchise owners through many different ways including conferences, newsletters, a toll free support line, internet resources, evaluations, and a grand opening ceremony. 1st Propane also offers its franchise owners a proprietary software package to help manage your propane business and centralized accounting is done by 1st Propane for all its franchisees via computer. Marketing support is given to franchise owners through ad slicks, books, and manuals.

At the time of this writing the initial franchise fee for a 1st Propane franchise was approximately thirty thousand dollars. The total investment required to own a franchise was in the approximate range of one hundred eighty-three thousand dollars to about four-hundred fifty-thousand dollars.     

For more information about this franchise opportunity you can visit the company website here.   

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