1. What type of person makes the best franchisee?
As a Preppy Pet franchisee, loving pets especially dogs is important, you will love your job and have fun at work. You will recruit and manage a staff of 2 to 10 employees once you have been open and are established. You and your employees will match the right puppy or rescue adoption pet with the right family, plus care for, play with the pets your customers leave at your facility for overnight pet boarding, doggie daycare and grooming.  Feeding, washing the pets and cleaning their suites are other important roles for your staff. Choosing the right people, training, motivating and managing them is an important aspect of your success. We will provide you with many tools such as employee handbook and other employee guidelines. Most owners manage the sales process, procurement, advertising and the finances of their businesses. A strong commitment to providing outstanding care to the pets entrusted to you is critical, as is a desire to run a successful business.

2. How large is a Protected Territory?
Preppy Pet Franchises provides you the exclusive rights to a large geographic area that will prevent others from opening a Preppy Pet within a defined territory, You will market and advertise in that large defined territory, however you are permitted to care for pets or sell pets to customers driving to your location from outside of your territory.   

3. How long will it take to get started?
You are in control of many of the variables in getting your location open. We assist you with our Site Selection Manual in finding an approved location and help negotiate the lease or purchase with our commercial real estate knowledge. Our step by step build out manual and vendor list guides you to open your location promptly with most units opening 90 days from securing the location. We schedule your training 4-6 weeks prior to opening. Preppy Pet has many advantages for a quick and easy startup such distributing and supplying our own Kennel Suites, Kennel Equipment, Puppy Nursery Set-up and Transport of your Puppies and Inventory and Supplies.    

4. How much does a Preppy Pet Suites Franchise cost to open?
We charge an initial franchise fee of $39,500 to help offset our costs of recruiting you and helping you launch and run your business. In addition, you should have a minimum of $110,000 to cover initial equipment, build-out, Inventory, supplies and lease payments. Typically at least $25,000 plus in credit line or cash should be available as needed to offset costs that exceed your profits in the early months.
We estimate that most franchisees will spend at least $150,000 to open a Preppy Pet to offer Pet Sales, Adoptions, Overnight Pet Boarding, Doggie Daycare, Grooming and Training and in most cases this is much less than opening just a kennel or a small pet store on your own independently.

5. Is any financing available?
Preppy Pet does not directly offer financing to prospective franchisees, but we may be able to guide you in finding funds for your business. We work with several companies that handle SBA loans, equipment leases to 401K exchanges.

6. Where do I buy my equipment to open a Preppy Pet?
Preppy Pet has developed a superior design for kennel suites using multiple panel sizes modular kennels, giving you the greatest flexibility in setting up and changing your facility. These wholesale kennel suites and our custom puppy nursery cribs can only be obtained from us. Other materials and supplies can be purchased from third parties utilizing our vendor list with savings negotiated by our network. This is a major savings.   

7. What are the ongoing costs of a franchise?
Like most franchisors, we charge a royalty on your ongoing sales of 4% to 6% due monthly (not weekly like some franchisors) This motivates us to help you grow your business and increase sales, year to year, resulting in an increased revenue stream for all Preppy Pet Suites. Unlike our competitors, we reward our high achievers by lowering their royalty percentage as low as 4% of gross sales, making our royalty cost the lowest in the pet industry. Unlike our competitors, Preppy Pet has No ridiculous Minimal Sales requirements that may increase your royalty fees 7 to 10% Plus No After Hour Emergency Call Fees, No Administrative fees, No Website Maintenance fees, No Webcam fees, No Annual Software Upgrade Fees and more that you need to be aware of from some franchisors that will lead to a very high costs of sales along with a poor return on your investment. Preppy Pet Franchises understands that you need to be profitable and we all grow together.  

8. How much can I earn now (Return On Investment) and will it build equity for the future?
We are unable to provide predictions of how much you will earn in your specific franchise location however, we do include Revenue and Labor costs in our Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD). Your ability and willingness to execute the business plan we'll share with you during your training will be a prime factor in your success. You control your profit margins and expenses in your franchise. You will be pleasantly surprised in how much equity you should gain in building your Preppy Pet.

9. What are the major differences from Preppy Pet Franchises and other pet care franchises?
Preppy Pet provides you with More Revenue Streams. Preppy Pet Franchises is the only affordable pet franchise that offers Pet Sales, Pet Rescue Adoptions, full capacity of Overnight Boarding of all pets, Doggie Daycare, Grooming and Training services all under one roof. Our unique safe and protected “Puppy Nursery” features only the top grade puppies from USDA inspected and licensed Breeders assures you and your customers the puppies not from Illegal puppy mills and unlicensed back yard breeders. Our method of opening an effective location along with operating efficiently is part of our complete business plan. The high costs of opening and operating a retail pet store and limiting your revenues to 90% pet sales does not work, nor does investing over quarter to half million dollars opening a kennel or Doggie Daycare Facility  with just those limited revenues. Due to our multiply revenues, Preppy Pet is not forced in selling any puppy to any family. Our unique system allows us to match the right puppy with the right family.     

10. How is Preppy Pet Suites pet care different from other Independents, Chains, or Franchises?
Most upscale pet boarding facilities are forced to keep raising prices and overcharge for their services due to an exuberant start- up costs along with high operational costs that causes such a high breakeven. Their early business plan shows that 100 dogs times $50 each daily equals profit, soon to realize it takes months or even years to reach such goals. Most pet boarding facilities charge customers the same to board a 3lb Chihuahua or 150lb Great Dane and also you are forced to purchase play even though it is a 12 year lab with arthritis.
Preppy Pet Suites is not a one price, one size fits all facility. Because we have more revenue streams than our competitors our franchisee owners can offer their customers many options to fit each pet family needs at more affordable prices. To learn more click on Pet Care FAQ

11.  Will we work with a local veterinarian?
Yes, you will be taught how to work closely with local veterinarians. The networking will provide   care from weekly visits for your puppies, while providing them new customers every day.   

12. Why Pet Business over other type businesses that we looked at?
The pet industry is booming and is growing each year with now over $50 billion dollars spent annually on pets and growing every year even in this economy.  Like most anything done right, A Pet Business can be very Fun, Rewarding business. Preppy Pet can provide this. Preppy Pet is easier to run than most retail businesses, with a lot less daily customers needed, no hard to find full time skilled labor, little inventory to control, handling, shrinkage or spoilage plus very little cash handling and its problems? If you love pets, especially dogs, you will love your job and have fun at work. All the best business advisors say the same thing: "Follow your passion and you'll find success."

13. Why a Preppy Pet Suites Franchise over opening an independent location?
Dept. of Commerce Study: Only 28% of Independent start-ups are still in business after 5 years! While over 90% of Franchised ventures survive their first five years in business. Many reasons for this, some such as demographic research, lease or purchase negotiation, zoning issues for your location, complete proven business plan. Preppy Pet offers you the ability to be part of a growing network, where strength in numbers is so important to survive against other franchises and major chains now entering into this industry. You will have access to our complete business plan which includes our network purchasing power and knowledge of puppies, proprietary kennel suites and puppy cribs, accounting and kennel software, complete training as needed, quick start marketing program, on-going support, and more. Preppy Pet Franchises can reduce your risk and offer a much quicker and less costly opening than you may do on your own.

14. What steps should I take to further explore the Preppy Pet Suites Franchise?
So that we can gain a better understanding of you, we ask that you complete our Qualification Sheet and forward it to us. After we review this information, if we agree that you're a good candidate for our system, we'll invite you to visit us in Orlando, Florida to gain a clearer understanding of our business. Before you reach a decision to join the Preppy Pet system, we ask that you review our federally-mandated Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD). Our franchisee friendly FDD completely explains the terms of our offering and includes a copy of the Franchise Agreement that you will sign. We will present a hard copy of this document to you when you visit us and answer any questions that may arise from its review.