Work from home with this opportunity

Sarah Stowe

Looking for more flexibility in your career? This opportunity may just be a fit. DAR is giving new franchisees $3500 of added inclusions as a kickstart. Image: Shutterstock

Direct Appliance Rentals (DAR) is a furniture and household appliance rental business, with franchisees handling inquiries and orders. They also assess customer needs and ability to afford new rental contracts.

Franchisees also visit customers, order goods, arrange delivery and maintain customer relations.

“With a DAR franchise, your work hours are flexible. Many franchises are run by women at home who need to also pick up the kids from school,” says franchisor Karina Wolfin.

Franchisees work through an online software system via laptop or mobile phone. This allows them to keep track of payments and customers, do reports and track aspects of their business. There is no need for a shopfront or to hold stock, so the business can be run from a home office.

Typically, return on investment is two years, with maximum outlay around the 13th of each month based on a predetermined achievable and realistic forecast, says Wolfin. The second year largely involves recouping the initial investment.

Wolfin says this means franchisees will need some liquidity behind them so they have enough cashflow the first year. The overheads of a DAR franchise come from a product bought upfront then rented out to clients for 12, 24 or 36 months.

The initial investment in a franchise is $45,000, with 50 percent vendor finance available to approved applicants. The model includes product and marketing, general business operation and customer relationship support. Franchisees also receive split-tested emails to their database as part of the marketing process.

“And as we celebrate eight years of success in business, we are also giving new franchisees $3500 of added inclusions as a kickstart,” says Wolfin. “We are also waiving the $3000 training fee, as well as supporting the growth of our franchisees by including professional marketing emails twice a week to their database, worth $500, free of charge.”

Interested in Direct Appliance Rentals? Find out more about buying a franchise.