Home Services · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
The Grounds Guys Franchise
A Neighborly brand operating in the home services sector, franchising since 2010. According to the 2024 FDD filing for The Grounds Guys, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $73K – $220K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 290
- Total locations · Small network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry the-grounds-guys The Grounds Guys
The Grounds Guys needs $73K–$220K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical home services franchise.
- LO $73K
- HI $220K
- FEE $40K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 290
- I19 Silent
- INV# #179/223
- UNT# #184/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: 911 Restoration ($74K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for The Grounds Guys (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 The Grounds Guys's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 3.5% net unit growth (YoY) 59/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 not disclosed 0/100 · F
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 The Grounds Guys's investment ranks nationally
The Grounds Guys's listed Item 7 low of $73K 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.
The Grounds Guys vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$73,000 Among the lowest lower than 82% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
Each bar is a $0.001K-wide band; taller bars hold more franchise brands. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $40K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
Item 19 Not Disclosed
This franchisor did not provide financial performance data in their FDD. This is common, disclosure is optional.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
10 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Home Services
- Subsector
- landscaping
- Founded
- 2009
- Franchising Since
- 2010
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · The Grounds Guys
This The Grounds Guys page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for The Grounds Guys.
Compact-network entry costs for The Grounds Guys
Signature read: 290 locations · Item 7 low $73K
The Grounds Guys, a Neighborly franchise, has been franchising since 2010 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 2009 , currently with 290 total locations (290 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the home services sector, headquartered in TX. The listed total initial investment is $73K to $220K, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $40K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
The brand charges 6.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties, plus a 2.0% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 8.0%. No Item 19 financial-performance field is recorded for The Grounds Guys. This registry does not infer a financial outcome from that absence.
The unit count trend here is positive -- The Grounds Guys posted 3.5% net growth year-over-year (20 openings, 10 closures). The registry records both the reported percentage and the count of openings and closures when those fields are available.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a The Grounds Guys franchise cost?
How many The Grounds Guys locations are there?
What are the ongoing fees for a The Grounds Guys franchise?
Related reading for The Grounds Guys: How to Evaluate a Franchise , The Grounds Guys has no Item 19 in this registry, diligence without a financial performance representation.
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 The Grounds Guys's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for The Grounds Guys , both outside HQ state TX : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($73K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (290 here).
What to do with this
The Grounds Guys at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- The Grounds Guys scores 30/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $73K – $220K entry cost runs below the typical home services franchise.
- Ranks #179 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- 911 Restoration sits at a comparable investment level ($74K) 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
| Publisher | PlainFranchise |
| Sources | Public state franchise disclosure registries and FDD filings |