Home Services · registry year 2024 · HQ ON
Weed Man Franchise
A Weed Man USA brand operating in the home services sector, franchising since 1977. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Weed Man, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $68K – $245K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 8.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 700
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $450K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry weed-man Weed Man
Weed Man needs $68K–$245K to open and charges a 8.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical home services franchise.
- LO $68K
- HI $245K
- FEE $20K
- ROY 8.0%
- UNT 700
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #183/223
- UNT# #125/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Sparkle Wash ($72K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Weed Man (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 Weed Man's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 4.3% net unit growth (YoY) 68/100 · D
- 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 Weed Man's investment ranks nationally
Weed Man's listed Item 7 low of $68K 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.
Weed Man vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$68,000 Among the lowest lower than 83% 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
- 1.5%
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
- 1970
- Franchising Since
- 1977
- Headquarters
- ON
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Weed Man
This Weed Man page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Weed Man.
Lower-band investment fields for Weed Man
Signature read: 700 locations · Item 7 low $68K
Weed Man, a Weed Man USA franchise, has been franchising since 1977 - 7 years after the concept was founded in 1970 , currently with 700 total locations (700 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the home services sector, headquartered in ON. The listed total initial investment is $68K to $245K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. A franchise-fee field of $20K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Ongoing royalties run 8.0% of gross sales, plus a 1.5% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 9.5%. The registry records an Item 19 field for Weed Man. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $450K; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $36K as a simple arithmetic illustration, not a cost or profit estimate. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
Weed Man's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 4.3% net rate over the past year (50 openings, 20 closures). This is a reported network-size change, not a measure of profitability, demand, or franchisee outcomes.
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Related reading for Weed Man: Understanding FDDs , Weed Man 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 Weed Man's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Weed Man , both outside HQ state ON : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($68K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (700 here).
What to do with this
Weed Man at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Weed Man scores 84/100 (B) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $68K – $245K entry cost runs below the typical home services franchise.
- Ranks #183 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Sparkle Wash sits at a comparable investment level ($72K) 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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