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Our owners are not corporate operators, and they don’t sit in a regional office three states from their trucks. They are people who wanted a business with a real address, a real name on the door, and a phone that rings where they can hear it. They fix gates, weld hinges, swap safety eyes, and shake hands with the same neighbors at the same hardware store. Some came from trades, some from desk jobs. All of them wanted out of the franchise model where the home office has never touched a gate. Here is who they are.
Meet Our Owners
Rachel A. – Central Texas
Rachel spent eleven years as a project manager for a commercial construction firm, which meant she knew schedules and budgets cold but never got to finish anything with her own hands. She started looking at franchises after her second child left for college, and what struck her about Gatewood Fence & Gate was simple: Hal publishes his address and license number, and his phone is answered by a live person. “I called at 6 a.m. once just to test it,” she says. “Hal answered. I was sold before breakfast.” Five years in, Rachel runs two trucks and does her own welding. Her favorite call is the one where a homeowner has been told by another company that their gate needs full replacement, and Rachel shows up and fixes the hinge post for a few hundred dollars. She keeps a folder of written estimates from competitors she has beaten with a repair instead of a swap. Her customers stay because she quotes the price before work starts, and she does not change it at the door.
Priya S. – Outer Atlanta Counties
Priya spent a decade in healthcare administration, which is a polite way of saying she answered to seventeen stakeholders and none of them agreed on anything. When she decided to own something, she wanted a business where the accountability ran one direction: her name on the work, her fix if it failed. Gatewood Fence & Gate fit because the 90-Day Done Right Promise is in writing, not buried in fine print, and that is exactly the kind of certainty Priya wanted to offer. She opened her territory three years ago and has since become the person her county calls when a gate sags or a Mighty Mule opener quits after a storm. Priya is not a welder by background, but she took the training seriously and now handles on-site welding jobs herself. “The first time a customer watched me weld a cracked gate frame in their driveway and said they couldn’t believe we didn’t haul it off, I understood the whole business,” she says. Her market is full of rural properties with long driveways, and her customers are the kind who want the name on the truck to match the name on the invoice. It does.
Shane P. – Northern Florida
Shane comes from a family that ran an auto shop for thirty years, so he grew up knowing what it means when a customer calls at 7 p.m. expecting a real person. He had no interest in a franchise that routed calls through a call center, which is what killed his family’s shop when a national chain moved into town. “I wanted the opposite of that,” he says. “I wanted a business where the owner answers the phone. That’s what Hal does, and that’s what I do now.” Shane bought his Gatewood Fence & Gate territory four years ago. He works on LiftMaster, FAAC, Viking, and DoorKing systems regularly, and he has built a reputation for diagnosing opener failures honestly. When a circuit board has genuinely failed, he says so. When the problem is a misaligned safety sensor or a dead battery, he says so and charges for what he fixed, nothing more. Shane’s customers include several property managers who were burned by national chains quoting one price on the phone and another at the site. He does not do that, because Hal does not, and because he knows he will see these people at the grocery store.
Paige A. – Rural Ohio
Paige spent eight years teaching high school math, which is exactly the kind of job that makes you good at explaining to a homeowner why a gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle, and why you don’t fix the panel without fixing the post or you’ll fix it twice. She also wanted a business where a woman answering the phone did not get talked down to, and Gatewood Fence & Gate was the only franchise she found where the owner’s cell number is part of the promise. “Hal told me on my first call that the only credential that matters is whether the customer’s gate works when I leave,” she says. Four years later, Paige runs a territory where the nearest big-box gate company is an hour away and the nearest honest weld is her truck. She carries Ghost Controls, Elite, and Linear parts, works on BFT and FAAC openers, and her standing offer list is not something she negotiates. $40 off any repair over $200. Free second opinion on any written estimate. Ten percent off for seniors and veterans, every single time. Paige’s customers are fifty to seventy, mostly, and they have been burned before. They verify her address. They check her license. They see her name on the truck, and then they call her again next time. That is the whole business model.
Your Story Starts Here
If you want a franchise where the owner answers the phone and the promise is in writing, call (877) 610-2993 and ask for the info kit. Hal will be the one who picks up. That’s not a selling point. That’s just how it works here.
Written by the team at Gatewood Fence & Gate, locally owned and owner-operated since 2001. The name is on the shop, and the shop is down the road.