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Quest franchisees: best friends, business partners and a happy home life [video interview]

Sarah Stowe

Former chef Mark O’Shea started his career with Quest Serviced Apartments as a property manager in the corporate business but it wasn’t long before he got the franchise bug and took steps to owning his own property.

“It took me the whole of three months after being employed that I was already speaking to Quest about having a franchise,” says O’Shea.

Signing up in a joint venture with a silent partner was the first step for O’Shea and his wife and the couple have since bought out the partner and gone on to manage a brand new apartment block.

The experience of starting with an existing business proved invaluable before the pair opened the Bundoora greenfield site from scratch, he explains.

In this video Mark chats with Franchising editor Sarah Stowe and explains how the couple were able to start out as franchisees despite a shortage of cashflow.