What are the conditions that must be met for a Precision Door Service franchisee to relocate their franchise location?
Precision_Door_Service Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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- You must implement and abide by our requirements and standards directed to enhancing substantial System uniformity. The following provisions control with respect to operation of your Business:
- A. Franchise Location. You are responsible for finding and purchasing or leasing a site that meets our site selection guidelines and standards and is located in the Territory. We will approve your site as long as it meets our site selection guidelines and we will attempt to provide our approval or disapproval within 10 business days after you submit the location information (together with evidence of compliance with our site selection guidelines) to us. In addition, your Franchise Location must meet the following conditions:
- (i) You must begin operating your Business within 6 months of the date we sign this Agreement, although you may not commence operations of your Business until you have satisfactorily completed our training program and complied with your other preopening obligations. We are not responsible or liable for any of your pre-opening obligations, losses or expenses, including those you might incur for your failure to comply with these obligations or your failure to open by a particular date. We have no responsibility for any lease; it is your sole responsibility to evaluate, negotiate and enter into a lease or a purchase agreement for the Franchise Location premises.
- (ii) You must construct and equip your Franchise Location in accordance with our current approved specifications and standards as set forth in the Operations Manual. You must maintain and periodically refresh the building, equipment, vehicles, fixtures, furnishings, signage and trade dress (including the interior and exterior appearance) used in the operation of your Business in accordance with our requirements established periodically and any periodic evaluations of the premises by our representatives.
From time to time as we require, you must effect items of modernization and/or replacement of the premises, trade dress, vehicles, equipment and grounds as may be necessary for your Business to conform to the standards for similarly situated new PRECISION GARAGE DOOR SERVICE® Businesses.
Each Transfer of any interest in this Agreement or your Business under Section 10 and each renewal under Section 4 are expressly conditioned upon your compliance with our then-current modernization or replacement requirements.
Source: Item 22 — Contracts (FDD pages 91–92)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
Based on the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the Franchise Agreement outlines the site selection guidelines for Precision Door Service. The franchisee is responsible for finding a location that meets Precision Door Service's standards within their designated territory. The franchisor must approve the site, and they will attempt to provide approval or disapproval within 10 business days of receiving the location information and evidence of compliance with the site selection guidelines.
The franchisee must begin operating their Precision Door Service business within 6 months of signing the Franchise Agreement. However, operations cannot commence until the training program is completed and all pre-opening obligations are met. The franchisee bears sole responsibility for evaluating, negotiating, and entering into a lease or purchase agreement for the franchise location. Precision Door Service is not liable for any pre-opening obligations, losses, or expenses incurred by the franchisee.
The franchise location must be constructed and equipped according to Precision Door Service's current approved specifications in the Operations Manual. The franchisee is responsible for maintaining and periodically refreshing the building, equipment, vehicles, fixtures, furnishings, signage, and trade dress to meet Precision Door Service's standards. Franchisees must also modernize or replace premises, trade dress, vehicles, and equipment as required to conform to the standards for new Precision Door Service businesses. Compliance with these modernization or replacement requirements is a condition for any transfer of interest in the Franchise Agreement or business and each renewal of the agreement.