Home Services · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
Window Genie Franchise
A Neighborly brand operating in the home services sector, franchising since 1998. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Window Genie, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $100K – $200K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 280
- Total locations · Small network
- $500K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry window-genie Window Genie
Window Genie needs $100K–$200K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical home services franchise.
- LO $100K
- HI $200K
- FEE $36K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 280
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #156/223
- UNT# #188/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Stanley Steemer ($100K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Window Genie (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 Window Genie's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 3.6% net unit growth (YoY) 60/100 · 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 Window Genie's investment ranks nationally
Window Genie'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.
Window Genie 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
- $36K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $500K
- 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
10 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Home Services
- Subsector
- window cleaning
- Founded
- 1994
- Franchising Since
- 1998
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Window Genie
This Window Genie page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Window Genie.
Compact-network entry costs for Window Genie
Signature read: 280 locations · Item 7 low $100K
Window Genie, a Neighborly franchise, has been franchising since 1998 - 4 years after the concept was founded in 1994 , currently with 280 total locations (280 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the home services sector, headquartered in TX. The registry records a total initial investment between $100K and $200K, with separate listed low and high values. A franchise-fee field of $36K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
The brand charges 6.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties; the registry also records a 2.0% advertising-fund field, for a 8.0% arithmetic total. Window Genie has a recorded Item 19 financial-performance field; Item 19 disclosure is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $500K; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $30K as an arithmetic illustration only. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
Window Genie's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 3.6% net rate over the past year (20 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 Window Genie: Understanding FDDs , Window Genie 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 Window Genie's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Window Genie , 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 ($100K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (280 here).
What to do with this
Window Genie at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Window Genie scores 80/100 (B) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $100K – $200K entry cost runs above the typical home services franchise.
- Ranks #156 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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