Home Services · registry year 2024 · HQ CA
Budget Blinds Franchise
A Budget Blinds Inc brand operating in the home services sector, franchising since 1994. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Budget Blinds, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $112K – $213K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 5.0%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 1,400
- Total locations · Large network
- $700K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry budget-blinds Budget Blinds
Budget Blinds needs $112K–$213K to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical home services franchise.
- LO $112K
- HI $213K
- FEE $20K
- ROY 5.0%
- UNT 1,400
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #148/223
- UNT# #75/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: 1-800-GOT-JUNK? ($113K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Budget Blinds (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Budget Blinds's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 2.1% net unit growth (YoY) 44/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where Budget Blinds's investment ranks nationally
Budget Blinds's listed Item 7 low of $112K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
Budget Blinds vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$112,000 Lower than most lower than 67% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $20K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $700K
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
30 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Home Services
- Subsector
- window treatments
- Founded
- 1992
- Franchising Since
- 1994
- Headquarters
- CA
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Budget Blinds
This Budget Blinds page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Budget Blinds.
Lower-band investment fields for Budget Blinds
Signature read: 1,400 locations · Item 7 low $112K
Budget Blinds, a Budget Blinds Inc franchise, has been franchising since 1994 - 2 years after the concept was founded in 1992 , currently with 1,400 total locations (1,400 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the home services sector, headquartered in CA. The listed total initial investment is $112K to $213K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $20K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
Ongoing royalties run 5.0% of gross sales; the registry also records a 2.0% advertising-fund field, for a 7.0% arithmetic total. Budget Blinds has an Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry, a voluntary disclosure under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $700K; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $35K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
The unit count trend here is positive -- Budget Blinds posted 2.1% net growth year-over-year (60 openings, 30 closures). The count describes the latest reported period only; the underlying Item 20 tables provide the fuller disclosure context.
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Related reading for Budget Blinds: Understanding FDDs , Budget Blinds lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How Budget Blinds's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Budget Blinds , both outside HQ state CA : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($112K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (1,400 here).
What to do with this
Budget Blinds at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Budget Blinds scores 72/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $112K – $213K entry cost runs above the typical home services franchise.
- Ranks #148 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- 1-800-GOT-JUNK? sits at a comparable investment level ($113K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
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