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The document provides comprehensive information about the franchisee and the organization of the franchise in order to provide sufficient information to the potential franchisee to make informed decisions about their investments. The potential buyer would pay exactly the same franchise fee as he or she would pay if he or she had contacted the same franchise himself. It is illegal for the franchisee to charge anything extra for the use of a franchised consultant unless it is stated in the Franchised Disc Document (FDD). So why would a franchisor work with franchised consultants? They do this because franchise consultants post all the underqualified candidates and only present them with high-screen quality candidates that fit their business model. The quality franchise is not busy paying the consultant a percentage of the initial franchise, as it considers the long-term residual value of the franchisee`s current royalties. Of course, there are a considerable number of franchises that use franchised brokers (deceptively called “franchise consultants”) to sell a large number of franchises in a network where maximizing the franchise`s turnover depends first and foremost on the survival of the franchised network. Uniquely, even under the FTC rule and state franchise disclosure documents, franchisors do not appear to be required to pass on to new buyers the UNIT system performance statistics in their possession, and new franchise buyers must perform their due diligence with current and former franchisees. The law does not require current and former franchisees of systems to disclose information about their operations to potential franchisees. The 2007 franchise rule, from the federal register on pages 15505 to 15506, listed the comments of former franchisees on confidentiality agreements: in addition, smaller and pragmatic consulting practices can work much more closely with small businesses and cooperate with them in order to franchise their activities over time. This allows the company to start operations much earlier, often within 2 years of successfully operating a local model and for much less money – hence the risk that using some of the larger consulting practices….