Even with the company offering to cover a portion of franchisee costs, owner-operators can easily spend hundreds of thousands of dollars.
On top of closing costs and mortgage costs, owners are also falling further behind renters each month.
For the rest, servicing mortgages costs owners only about a fifth of their salaries.But even if prices are justified by fundamentals, those fundamentals can change.
Energy-efficiency retrofits cost money, and – even if they expect the savings to quickly outweigh the costs – owners can have a tough time scoring the financing they need to pay for the projects up front.
For the Angels to retain Trout, it cost owner Arte Moreno more than twice as much as the $184 million he paid for the franchise in 2003.
G.M. said each charge would cost owners $1 to $1.50, depending on electricity costs.
This would, of course, cost owners an extra year's feed, veterinarian fees and so forth.
Tells about the courts in this country, the cost, owners, by whom the game is played, etc.
Some of them, like the Savoy Park in Harlem, can no longer sustain their regulated rents and are costing owners and lenders millions.
And with dealers marking up this pollution-fighting liquid like champagne on New Year's Eve, refills can cost owners $200 or even $300, wiping out a chunk of the fuel savings.
The overhaul cost owners Vintage Trains up to £750,000.
