Opening my Storm Guard location has taught me a lot about myself and has given me so many relationships with people that I would never had met or even thought about spending time with in the past. It has been the greatest decision of my life.

We are all stronger together. Rather than an independent company of 20 employees in 5 years you have the buying power of thousands and the ability to use the collective knowledge of everyone together to stay ahead of the market and grow where others fail.

There is a level of support you have from corporate. Certainly branding and national presence combined with a local feel. There are systems in place and ready to go vs. having to build/buy these elsewhere and implement them yourself.

You have a variety of peers to ask anything about the business with a pretty large history and experience level at this point. We also have an outstanding Corporate staff with a vast business knowledge and they actually care about the Franchisee's and that is rare.

My background is retail, so success can be measured differently, with no control over it. The decision to open a Storm Guard franchise, is the best decision I have ever made in life, outside of marrying my beautiful wife. In this business, you get out of it, what you put into it. That can't be said for retail. In this business, I have control.