By when must a lease be signed for a Big Blue Swim School location?
Big_Blue_Swim_School Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
ted lease with your own legal and other advisors before signing it to confirm that all commercial and other terms are acceptable to you.
- (2) A Lease must be signed by the end of the Site Selection Period. However, if you cannot sign a Lease by the end of the Site Selection Period despite your diligent efforts to do so, you may request (at no cost to you) two separate thirty (30)-day extensions to sign the Lease. We will not unreasonably deny your request if the reasons for each extension request demonstrate your diligence in the site selection and leasing process. However, these extensions are not available if we exercise our right to terminate this Agreement because you reject a Qualified Site.
(3) After your Lease is executed, you must send us prior notice of any revisions to its terms, whether proposed by you or the landlord, and we may negotiate, and/or accept or reject, those proposed revisions before they become effective.
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Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD pages 75–76)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Big Blue Swim School's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, a lease must be signed by the end of the Site Selection Period. The Site Selection Period is initially defined as within two hundred ten (210) days after the Effective Date, during which an acceptable site must be found and secured. The Site Selection Period concludes upon the earliest of three conditions: Big Blue Swim School's acceptance of the site and lease, the termination of the Franchise Agreement, or two hundred ten (210) days after the Effective Date.
However, if a franchisee cannot sign a lease by the end of the Site Selection Period, despite diligent efforts, they may request two separate thirty (30)-day extensions at no cost. Big Blue Swim School will not unreasonably deny these requests if the reasons demonstrate diligence in the site selection and leasing process. These extensions are not available if Big Blue Swim School terminates the agreement because the franchisee rejects a Qualified Site.
In summary, a Big Blue Swim School franchisee must secure a lease within the initial 210-day Site Selection Period. If needed, the franchisee can request up to two 30-day extensions, potentially extending the deadline to a maximum of 270 days from the Effective Date, provided they demonstrate diligent effort in the site selection and leasing process.