What is the deadline for Focalpoint Coaching to approve my office location after the Franchise Agreement's effective date?
Focalpoint_Coaching Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
If you choose to locate your Office in a non-residential location, the site location must meet our criteria for demographic characteristics; parking; character of neighborhood; competition from, proximity to, and nature of other businesses; size; appearance; and other physical and commercial characteristics. We may use reasonable efforts to assist you in designating the location of the Office, although we will not conduct site selection activities for you. If an Office has not been approved in writing by us as of the Effective Date of the Franchise Agreement, you agree to locate an Office acceptable to us and obtain our written approval of the location within 60 days following the Effective Date of the Franchise Agreement. We do not anticipate a situation where we would own the Site and lease it to you for the Office. If we and you cannot agree on an acceptable site and you do not open your Office within 60 days following the Effective Date of the Franchise Agreement, we may terminate the Franchise Agreement. (Franchise Agreement − Sections 1.D. and 14.B.)
Source: Item 11 — Franchisor's Assistance, Advertising, Computer Systems, and Training (FDD pages 28–36)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Focalpoint Coaching's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, if a franchisee chooses to locate their office in a non-residential location, they must locate an office acceptable to Focalpoint Coaching and obtain written approval within 60 days following the Effective Date of the Franchise Agreement.
Focalpoint Coaching may use reasonable efforts to assist in designating the location of the office, but will not conduct site selection activities for the franchisee. The site location must meet Focalpoint Coaching's criteria for demographic characteristics, parking, character of neighborhood, competition from, proximity to, and nature of other businesses, size, appearance, and other physical and commercial characteristics.
If Focalpoint Coaching and the franchisee cannot agree on an acceptable site and the franchisee does not open their office within 60 days following the Effective Date of the Franchise Agreement, Focalpoint Coaching may terminate the Franchise Agreement. This requirement ensures that franchisees promptly establish an approved location to begin operations, while also giving Focalpoint Coaching the ability to end the agreement if a suitable location cannot be found in a timely manner.