Home Services · registry year 2024 · HQ FL
U.S. Lawns Franchise
A U.S. Lawns Inc brand operating in the home services sector, franchising since 1986. According to the 2024 FDD filing for U.S. Lawns, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $50K – $100K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 4.0%
- Royalty rate · Below-average royalty
- 250
- Total locations · Small network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry u-s-lawns U.S. Lawns
U.S. Lawns needs $50K–$100K to open and charges a 4.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical home services franchise.
- LO $50K
- HI $100K
- FEE $35K
- ROY 4.0%
- UNT 250
- I19 Silent
- INV# #195/223
- UNT# #195/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Chem-Dry ($56K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for U.S. Lawns (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 U.S. Lawns's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 2.0% net unit growth (YoY) 43/100 · 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 U.S. Lawns's investment ranks nationally
U.S. Lawns's listed Item 7 low of $50K 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.
U.S. Lawns vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$50,000 Among the lowest lower than 88% 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
- 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
- 1986
- Franchising Since
- 1986
- Headquarters
- FL
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · U.S. Lawns
This U.S. Lawns page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for U.S. Lawns.
Compact-network entry costs for U.S. Lawns
Signature read: 250 locations · Item 7 low $50K
U.S. Lawns, a U.S. Lawns Inc franchise, has been franchising since 1986 , currently with 250 total locations (250 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the home services sector, headquartered in FL. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $50K to $100K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $35K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
The brand charges 4.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties with a separate 2.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 6.0%. No Item 19 financial-performance field is recorded for U.S. Lawns. This registry does not infer a financial outcome from that absence.
U.S. Lawns's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 2.0% net rate over the past year (15 openings, 10 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 U.S. Lawns: How to Evaluate a Franchise , U.S. Lawns 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 U.S. Lawns's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for U.S. Lawns , both outside HQ state FL : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($50K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (250 here).
What to do with this
U.S. Lawns at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- U.S. Lawns scores 22/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $50K – $100K entry cost runs below the typical home services franchise.
- Ranks #195 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Chem-Dry sits at a comparable investment level ($56K) 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.
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