al, county and state regulations.

Note 13: Additional Funds – This is an estimate of the minimum recommended levels of additional funds that may be required to cover operating expenses such as employee salaries, inventory, rent, and utilities only for the initial three month period following the opening of your Deck Medic Business. This estimate does not include compensation to you or your owners and does not include interest, finance charges, or payments that may be incurred by you if you financed the development of your Deck Medic Business. In making this estimate, we have relied on the experiences of our affiliate in developing and operating a Deck Medic Business. This is only an estimate for your initial three months of operations and more working capital and additional funds may be required depending on the sales and performance of your Deck Medic Business.

Note 14: About Your Estimated Initial Investment – This is an estimate of the initial start-up expenses for a Deck Medic Business. We have based these estimates on the experiences of our affiliate and our franchisees in developing a Deck Medic Business. These are only estimates and your costs and the range of those costs, may vary. These estimates do not include interest and financing charges that you may incur and they do not include management level compensation payable to you or your owners. If you increase the geographic size of your Operating Territory by adding Additional Territories your costs will be higher. These estimates are for one Deck Medic Business within a single Territory and the operation of one service vehicle.

**B.

Source: Item 7 — ESTIMATED INITIAL INVESTMENT (FDD pages 15–19)