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The Doctor Is In Make money with: furniture repair, home safety, cruise travel.

By Michelle Prather

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Helpless furnishings everywhere sport battle wounds from theoccasional moving mishap. If you have a knack for restoring theirnatural beauty, consider Furniture Medic LP, the Memphis,Tennessee-based franchisor that calls itself "the prescriptionfor damaged furniture."

According to president Todd Vieyra, top Furniture Medic accountsinclude moving companies, the insurance industry (restoring flood-or fire-damaged furnishings), commercial properties, and governmentproperties (refinishing furnishings in courthouses and federalbuildings).

A franchise fee of either $11,400 or $16,400, depending onterritory size, buys your license to practice furniture medicine.Franchisees receive extensive training, including a two-week homestudy course, two weeks of training in Memphis, and a mentorprogram pairing new franchisees with established ones. Annualregional meetings and national conventions help polish skills, asdoes a yearly training-video update.