Analyze a franchise

Start with a filing we have read

• 101 MOBILITY
• 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
• 1-800-Plumber
• 1-800-radiator
• 1-800 WATER DAMAGE
• 1Heart Caregiver Services
• 1 Tom Plumber
• 2nd Family

What the analysis covers

• Fees and investmentItem 5, 6 and 7 as filed — franchise fee, royalty, brand fund, and the range it takes to open.
• Item 19 earningsWhat the franchisor claims an outlet earns, and whether the population behind that figure is one you could operate.
• Unit movementItem 20 openings, closures and terminations over the year the filing reports.
• Loan outcomesEvery SBA-guaranteed loan to a franchisee: how many finished, how many were written off, and how much the SBA withheld.
• Industry positionThe same charge-off rate set against every comparable brand in its NAICS group, with the peer count attached.
• What to ask aboutFlags raised from the record against 23 FDD items — and, as plainly, the items no rule could check.
• Five-year modelYour rent, wages and financing against the filing's figures. Every assumption is labelled with where it came from.
• Year over yearWhat changed between two filings, where a second year exists. Contested figures are refused rather than subtracted.

Not here, because the data behind them does not exist: franchisee sentiment, operating margins, and any single score summarising a brand. A filing states no margins, we have interviewed no franchisees, and a composite score over a catalogue where 480 brands have a loan record and a few dozen have a filing read would be mostly invention.