Home Services · registry year 2024 · HQ NJ
Lawn Doctor Franchise
A Lawn Doctor Inc brand operating in the home services sector, franchising since 1967. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Lawn Doctor, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $100K – $155K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 9.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 600
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $450K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry lawn-doctor Lawn Doctor
Lawn Doctor needs $100K–$155K to open and charges a 9.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical home services franchise.
- LO $100K
- HI $155K
- FEE $35K
- ROY 9.0%
- UNT 600
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #152/223
- UNT# #132/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Stanley Steemer ($100K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Lawn Doctor (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 Lawn Doctor's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 1.7% net unit growth (YoY) 39/100 · 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 Lawn Doctor's investment ranks nationally
Lawn Doctor's listed Item 7 low of $100K 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.
Lawn Doctor vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$100,000 Lower than most lower than 69% 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
- $35K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 3.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $450K
- 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
20 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Home Services
- Subsector
- lawn care
- Founded
- 1967
- Franchising Since
- 1967
- Headquarters
- NJ
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Lawn Doctor
This Lawn Doctor page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Lawn Doctor.
Lower-band investment fields for Lawn Doctor
Signature read: 600 locations · Item 7 low $100K
Lawn Doctor, a Lawn Doctor Inc franchise, has been franchising since 1967 , currently with 600 total locations (600 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the home services sector, headquartered in NJ. The listed total initial investment is $100K to $155K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. A franchise-fee field of $35K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Ongoing royalties run 9.0% of gross sales; the registry also records a 3.0% advertising-fund field, for a 12.0% arithmetic total. Lawn Doctor 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 $450K; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $41K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
Network momentum is currently positive: Lawn Doctor added units at a 1.7% net rate year-over-year (30 openings, 20 closures). The registry records both the reported percentage and the count of openings and closures when those fields are available.
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Related reading for Lawn Doctor: Understanding FDDs , Lawn Doctor 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 Lawn Doctor's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Lawn Doctor , both outside HQ state NJ : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($100K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (600 here).
What to do with this
Lawn Doctor at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Lawn Doctor scores 70/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $100K – $155K entry cost runs above the typical home services franchise.
- Ranks #152 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Stanley Steemer sits at a comparable investment level ($100K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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