Help i need a great lawyer in the franchise area?

Question

in 03 I bought into a tax service franchise, the area developer told me that I had to do what he told me and when he told me and business sucked, he order things for me without my ok and then told me how bad I was, my mom sold her house to keep us going, 04 I borrowed money to keep the business going with more bad orders from the area developer, 05 bought 3 more areas opened two more bad business orders from the area developer, 06 closed one office, two offices did bad again, 07 moved to IL had a manager for the offices, planned to come back for tax season, area developer stole money from my bank account and made up lies and stole back my areas, Now I am left with 300,000 plus in debit and I need a lawyer that will help me without charging me up front, I have every email that the franchise and area developer sent me I have a email where he admitts to taking the money

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!! I am a single mom, unable to work living day to day on child support

Answer 1

I don't know of any lawyer who  would help you without being paid upfront. After all, you paid everyone else upfront and lawyers like to eat and pay their bills too. If you feel that the franchisor didn't live up to their end of the bargain, I would suggest contacting the Fair Trade Commission. Their contact information is supposed to be in your franchise offering circular. If you lost that, look in your phone book or online. As for the manager stealing money from you, I would give him one of two choices. #1. Make arrangements with you to pay it all back or, #2. Go to jail. If he doesn't pay it back, file a criminal complaint on him with the prosecuting attorney.

Answer 2

Hi There,

Good Post!  I love everything about business, escpecially the marketing and advertising parts.  These things make or break a business.  I've found many ways to advertise my business that might help you.  If you have a website, try SEO and PPC (pay per click from Google Adwords).

If you advertise your business offline, try handing out flyers, printing coupons, and yellowpage advertising).

The best method I've found yet is to buy business cards and hand them out everwhere.  I buy them from a place online that gives the cards for free and only charges for shipping and handling.  I hand these out to everyone I meet, and I leave them on cars where ever I go (I also got a free business card holder that looks really impressive)!  

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Take care and good luck with your business!

Answer 3

wow you surely did trust this guy uh? I'd have stopped BEFORE selling your mom's house but what's done is done.

What happened to the father of your child? no help on that front either?

Perhaps you can try these people here http://locate-lawyer.info/ they are free to get quoted so it might work out, I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.