Are Crawlspace Medic's criteria for approving items and suppliers available to franchisees?
Crawlspace_Medic Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
y meet our standards (Franchise Agreement, Section 10.4).
- g. provide you with any written specifications for required equipment, products and services and provide you with updated lists of any approved suppliers of these items (Franchise Agreement, Section 10.7).
- h. advise on the advertised selling price for products and services for your Crawlspace Medic business. We reserve the right to establish regional or national accounts with other companies that want to conduct business with us across multiple franchised or company owned territories. If we establish such accounts, you are required to service them on the terms negotiated. If you cannot or are unwilling to do so, we reserve the right to service those accounts or designate another Franchisee to do so (Franchise Agreement, Section 12.5).
i. approve or disapprove of all advertising, direct mail, and other promotional material and campaigns you propose in writing to us. We will respond within ten (10) business days, either accepting or rejecting the proposed material and/or campaign; however, if we do not respond within ten (10) business days, the proposed material and/or campaign is deemed "disapproved". (Franchise Agreement, Section 13.6).
4. Advertising
Local Advertising (Franchise Agreement, Sections 13.2 and 13.6)
We require you to spend at least five thousand dollars ($5,000) in Market Introduction advertising and promotional activities during the sixty (60) days prior and ninety (90) days following the opening of your Franchised Business in the Territory.
Source: Item 8 — RESTRICTIONS ON SOURCES OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (FDD pages 20–21)
What This Means (2024 FDD)
According to Crawlspace Medic's 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document, Crawlspace Medic will provide franchisees with written specifications for required equipment, products, and services. Crawlspace Medic will also provide franchisees with updated lists of any approved suppliers of these items.
Crawlspace Medic also requires franchisees to offer and sell all services that are part of the Crawlspace Medic system, including any services and products that Crawlspace Medic incorporates into the system in the future. Franchisees may only offer services and products that Crawlspace Medic has previously approved. Crawlspace Medic may add to, delete from, or modify the products and services that franchisees can and must offer, provided that these changes do not materially and unreasonably increase the franchisee's obligations under the Franchise Agreement.
Furthermore, franchisees must submit all advertising, press releases, promotional plans, materials, and public relations programs to Crawlspace Medic for approval. Crawlspace Medic will approve or disapprove such plans and materials within ten business days of receipt. If Crawlspace Medic fails to respond within this timeframe, the plans and materials are deemed disapproved, and the franchisee cannot use them until written approval is obtained.