HouseCheck offers best franchisee support
With the Government introducing new laws to protect home buyers through home inspection here are a few reasons to consider investing in a HouseCheck franchise.
1. Firstly, we offer an exclusive territory. This means that you will not be competing with fellow franchisees from HouseCheck.
2. Secondly, we do all the quoting, invoicing and sales for you: we run the “back office” for our franchisees. HouseCheck has a fully automated quoting system and maintains a dedicated Customer Care Centre desk to take the calls from clients and to make the sales. This means that we are there to take the calls all the time. It’s difficult for our franchisees to do this when you are in a roof or concentrating on a challenging technical aspect of an inspection. We also have an experienced management team to handle production and quality control of all inspection reports.
3. HouseCheck only uses inspectors who are certified by SAHITA (www.sahita.co.za) and who subscribe to the NABISA Code of Conduct (www.nabisa.org.za). SAHITA building and home inspector training is fully aligned with the QCTO-approved curriculum for Building Inspector Classes I and II. SAHITA training focuses exclusively on South African building regulations and national building standards and South African building practices.
4. The HouseCheck business is totally systemised. From our technical training, operations, marketing actions, publicity campaigns to our interactions with our clients everything is a documented process. Training is available for every step of the way. Most of this training is accessible online either through www.sahita.co.za (for the technical training) or through the company intranet for marketing, business processes or operational procedures. The benefit of this is that your business becomes scalable. When, as we predict, home inspections become the normal way of protecting buyers, sellers and estate agents, then we are going to have to upskill a lot of people to cope with the approximately 10 000 homes being sold in South Africa every month. Having all the systems in place makes this a much easier job.
5. HouseCheck inspections are done on site using a smart phone and software inspection template, exclusively developed for HouseCheck. Our inspection software ensures you don’t miss anything and that you can easily compile comprehensive and professional reports. Smart text, built into the software, speaks to almost every defect and defect evaluation which the South African inspector may encounter. Merely having to take a photo and select the appropriate text makes the compilation of the report very quick and accurate. On average, the HouseCheck inspector will spend three hours at the property and another hour or two to tidy things up and do the cost estimates. This allows us to get our completed reports to head office for checking and distribution to clients within one working day compared to the 72 hours advertised by some of our opposition. This specialised HouseCheck software gives you the edge.
6. Our customer relations management (CRM) system and our Customer Care Centre will help you to keep track of outstanding quotes. When the quote is on hold, probably because the client hasn’t secured the property as yet (because the deal is still at offer stage), then our system is structured to keep in touch with the client.
7. Similarly our CRM system also assists you in dealing with and educating estate agents. You are able to build relationships with many agents at a time. These time-saving and relationship-building tools are critical to your success.
8. Our national online meeting held online every Tuesday morning at 07h30 is a great way to share experiences, receive training and get encouragement when things get tough.
9. Our electronic marketing campaign, including ongoing SEO (search engine optimisation) and Google pay per click advertising delivers a steady flow of quote requests to our Customer Care Centre.
Naturally the lobbying we are doing and the publicity we have achieved serve not only to grow HouseCheck but the entire industry. That is important to us. We want a thriving industry in Africa because once the tipping point is reached we believe we are well placed to continue to be the market leaders in Africa.
The potential size of the home inspection market in South Africa is in excess of 10 000 inspections a month – worth about R35-million a month in inspection fees. The home inspection industry is well placed to be one of the highest growth sectors of our economy.
At HouseCheck we believe in expanding the home inspection industry rather than squabbling with our competitors for a slice of a small cake. Naturally we aim to continue to be the leading South African home inspection business, but the more competent inspectors out there educating the public the better. This is the reason we established SAHITA as an independent and respected building inspection training business to provide responsible training for anyone wishing to enter this exciting industry.
Registering interest for a Franchise opportunity
HouseCheck is not actively seeking new franchisees. However, we interested in discussing this business opportunity with anyone who feels they may have the necessary background and business skills to add value to the HouseCheck business – in particular where the potential franchisee may be able to offer exceptional value in areas of local marketing and sales.
Initial HouseCheck franchise fees are by negotiation and range between R85,000 to R300,000 – depending on the territory and depending on the value that we perceive that a potential franchisee may add to the HouseCheck business.
We don’t think in a box and we believe in growing the potential of our team members! Some people who have joined HouseCheck as local franchisees have gone on to become senior management and partners with HouseCheck in developing different aspects of our business on a national basis.
In order to be considered we would like some more information about yourself and to see a copy of your CV which you can upload as part of the registration process.