What are the minimum site standards for a Card My Yard business location?
Card_My_Yard Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
rial rights within the Protected Area, or terminate this Agreement, upon 30 days' written notice to you.
III. SITE SELECTION, CONSTRUCTION AND OPENING DATE
- A. Site Selection and Acquisition. You assume all cost, liability, expense and responsibility for locating, obtaining and developing a site for the Card My Yard business within the Designated Search Area. You acknowledge and agree that you acquire no rights in and to the Designated Search Area, other than the right to select a site for the Card My Yard business from within its boundaries. Following your selection and our acceptance of a site for your Card My Yard business, the Franchise Location will be identified in Exhibit C to this Agreement and the Designated Search Area will be of no further force or effect.
- (1) You must identify and secure a site for your Card My Yard business within your
Designated Search Area (or at a site within your Protected Area if such area has been agreed upon before you sign this Agreement). We anticipate that your site will be your home. We must accept the site as meeting our minimum standards (at least 18 feet of wall space with walls at least 8 feet high) before you may begin any construction or
renovations or use such site for your Card My Yard business. You cannot place a Card My Yard business at a site we have not first accepted in writing. We do not provide written site selection guidelines, but if you request (or we deem it appropriate) we will assist you in selecting a site that meets our minimum site standards (at least 18 feet of wall space with walls at least 8 feet high). We will not provide an on-site evaluation for any proposed site before receiving all required information and materials required pursuant to Section III.A(2) below.
- (2) If you wish to operate your Card My Yard Business from a location that is not your primary residence, then before acquiring a site for the Card My Yard business, you must submit to us, in the form specified by us, a description of the site, evidence satisfactory to us demonstrating that the site satisfies our site selection guidelines, and such other information and materials as we may reasonably require,including, but notlimited to, a final, complete copy of the lease (which must incorporate a rider in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit F) or contract of sale for the site for your Card My Yard business. Such lease or contract for sale may not be signed by you unless it includes a rider in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit F and is submitted to, and approved by, us in advance.
- (3) We shall have fifteen (15) days after receiving all required site information to accept or reject, in our sole discretion, the proposed site as the location for your Card My Yard business. No site may be used for a Card My Yard business unless it is first accepted in writing by us, and you shall not make any binding commitment with respect to a site for your Card My Yard business unless the site is first accepted in writing by us.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPTS (FDD pages 84–259)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Card My Yard's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the company anticipates that a franchisee's site will be their home. Card My Yard must accept the site as meeting their minimum standards before the franchisee can begin any construction or renovations or use the site for their Card My Yard business. The minimum site standards are at least 18 feet of wall space with walls at least 8 feet high. The franchisee cannot place a Card My Yard business at a site Card My Yard has not first accepted in writing.
Card My Yard does not provide written site selection guidelines, but if the franchisee requests (or Card My Yard deems it appropriate) they will assist in selecting a site that meets their minimum site standards. Card My Yard will not provide an on-site evaluation for any proposed site before receiving all required information and materials.
If a franchisee wishes to operate their Card My Yard Business from a location that is not their primary residence, then before acquiring a site for the Card My Yard business, they must submit to Card My Yard a description of the site, evidence satisfactory to Card My Yard demonstrating that the site satisfies their site selection guidelines, and other information and materials as Card My Yard may reasonably require, including a final, complete copy of the lease (which must incorporate a rider in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit F) or contract of sale for the site for the Card My Yard business. The lease or contract for sale may not be signed by the franchisee unless it includes a rider in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit F and is submitted to, and approved by, Card My Yard in advance.
Card My Yard has fifteen (15) days after receiving all required site information to accept or reject, in their sole discretion, the proposed site as the location for the Card My Yard business. No site may be used for a Card My Yard business unless it is first accepted in writing by Card My Yard, and the franchisee shall not make any binding commitment with respect to a site for their Card My Yard business unless the site is first accepted in writing by Card My Yard.