What is the Dryer Vent Squad franchisee's responsibility for costs associated with locating an administrative office?
Dryer_Vent_Squad Franchise · 2024 FDDAnswer from 2024 FDD Document
If permitted by local law, you may operate your Dryer Vent Squad Business from a home based administrative office. Otherwise, you are responsible for selecting a site for your administrative office and must obtain our approval of your selected location. If you elect to establish an operations center comprised of a non-retail back-office facility to support the operations of your Dryer Vent Squad Business, including maintaining inventory, staging service visits, and parking your service vehicle, you are responsible for selecting and securing a site within your Operating Territory. We do not typically own or lease the real property that will serve as your administrative office and/or operations center and you are responsible for all costs and expenses in locating and evaluating proposed sites for your administrative office. We will provide you with site selection guidelines.
Within 30 days of our written receipt and submission of all information and documentation that we may request, we will respond to your proposed request for our approval or disapproval of the proposed location of your administrative office. Factors taken into consideration include characteristics of the proposed site, whether or not the proposed site meets our criteria for non-retail back-office operations, and the location of your proposed site relative to your overall Operating Territory and proximity to other franchisee operating territories.
Since you may administratively manage your Dryer Vent Squad Business from your home there is no required time period within which you must secure a commercial office location. If you do not meet our requirements for site selection, we may terminate your Franchise Agreement without refunding any fees to you.
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND TRAINING (FDD pages 30–36)
What This Means (2024 FDD)
According to the 2024 Dryer Vent Squad Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees are generally responsible for all costs associated with locating and evaluating sites for their administrative office. Dryer Vent Squad does not typically own or lease the real property for these offices. However, if permitted by local law, a franchisee may operate their Dryer Vent Squad business from a home-based administrative office.
If a franchisee chooses to establish an operations center, which is a non-retail back-office facility for inventory, staging service visits, and parking service vehicles, they are responsible for selecting and securing a site within their operating territory. Dryer Vent Squad will provide site selection guidelines to assist in this process.
Dryer Vent Squad must approve the franchisee's selected location. The franchisor will respond to a franchisee's request for approval or disapproval of the proposed location within 30 days of receiving all required information and documentation. Factors considered include the site's characteristics, whether it meets the criteria for non-retail back-office operations, and its location relative to the franchisee's operating territory and other franchisees. If the site selection does not meet Dryer Vent Squad's requirements, the Franchise Agreement may be terminated without any refund of fees.