i am ready to franchise my company, any suggestions or thoughts from people who have been through this?

This is me throwing cold water on you!

You have not even been in business for 2 years yet so you hardly have any kind of serious track record to franchise. What do you have to offer that would make a broker want to fork out money and pay you a franchise fee. You have no name recognition except in you local area so there is really nothing to buy. Look how long it took Richard Davis to begin to franchise Trademark Properties. Are you number 1 in your local market? Do you have any presence in surrounding areas?

Paul,
thanks for the cold water, but you know as well as i do, name recognition means next to nothing. look at the NAR stats yourself, people dont follow name brands. I have a very different and streamlined company that even re/max owners told me (on numerous occasions) that they wish their HQ operated like mine does. I have a different business model that attracts brokers and agents, all i can say is wait and see