Pro-Lift Garage Doors

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Figures are from the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document filed in WI.

Total investment
$159,100 – $244,000
Initial franchise fee
$65,000
Franchised outlets
54

Compared with every brand we can rate, Pro-Lift Garage Doors is worse than 98% of them

That is 420 brands across every industry, which is a rougher comparison than like-for-like — a cleaning franchise and a restaurant do not carry the same risk. We use it here because Painting and Wall Covering Contractors has only 6 brands with enough finished loans to compare against. See the peers anyway →

We only know how 21 of this brand’s 63 loans ended. The government withholds the outcome on 35 of the others, so everything above is based on 33% of the record.

10 of 21 franchisees who borrowed to buy this brand did not repay. See every loan →

There is more in Pro-Lift Garage Doors’s filing

What it costs to open is free, above. Access opens what the franchisor disclosed about earning it back — here and on every other brand we have read:

  • What Item 19 states its outlets earn, and on how many of them
  • Every ongoing fee, not just the royalty — priced in dollars a year
  • How many franchisees left, were terminated, or sold up
  • Territory, renewal, non-compete and dispute terms
  • What in the record is worth asking about, and why
  • A five-year projection you can put your own rent, wages and borrowing into

One price opens all of it, on every brand we have read. Once opened it stays open.

The loan record stays free — how many of this brand’s franchisees borrowed from a bank to buy in, and how many never paid it back. That is a public government record and we do not charge for it. What you pay for is only what we read out of the franchisor’s own disclosure document.

Where to start

  • What to ask about — everything in the record that a rule flagged, and what those rules cannot see.
  • Loan outcomes — how franchisees who borrowed to buy this brand actually fared.
  • Five-year model — put your own rent, wages and financing against these figures.

FDD data sourced from public state filings. We are not a franchise broker; we do not receive payment from franchisors and do not sell your information. Figures are read from the filing by a machine and link to the page they came from — check any of them against the source. Read the current disclosure document, and take advice from a franchise attorney, before you sign anything.