GoJoe Patrol Franchise Cost, Revenue & Review 2026
- Investment
- $91K – $152K
- Disclosed sales
- partial, no system average
- SBA charge-off
- Under 10 loans (1)
Data from FDD filing + SBA 7(a) records
Analysis by FranchiseVerdict Research · Methodology
GoJoe Patrol is a security franchise providing mobile patrol and on-site security services for commercial and residential clients. Franchisees run local operations, managing guards, patrols, and accounts.
FranchiseVerdict summary · 2026
A GoJoe Patrol franchise requires a total initial investment of $91K – $152K, including a $45K – $60K franchise fee and an ongoing 5.0% royalty[2]. The 2025 FDD on file does not yield a unit-revenue figure we can publish. FranchiseVerdict grade: B (Above average), an editorial assessment, not investment advice. Run a live ROI scan →
Sources, dates and evidence
FDD issued: 2025 filing · Data extracted: · Last cited check: · Staleness risk: medium - a newer filing may exist
Evidence: strong✓ Investment (Item 7)✓ Item 19 status✓ Units and owners (Item 20)✗ SBA loan coverage✓ Litigation (Item 3)✓ Financial statements (Item 21)✓ Franchisor identityhow this is scored5 of 6 headline figures on this page cite a page of the filing; the rest are marked “Not cited” beside the figure.
Overview
- Investment
- $91K – $152K
- 28th pct Pet Services
- Avg gross sales
- N/A
- Company-owned onlyn=1
- Royalty
- 5.0%
- 9th pct Pet Services
- Units
- 4
- 24th pct Pet Services
- SBA charge-off
- N/A
Quick verdict · Pet Services · color = vs category peers
Green = favorable by >10% vs Pet Services median · No shading = within ±10% · Red = unfavorable by >10% · Source: FDD filings + SBA 7(a)
Data from public FDD filings and SBA records. Not financial advice. Methodology
Bottom line
- COSTTotal investment $91K – $152K including a $45K franchise fee, 5.0% ongoing royalty.
- RETURNSItem 19 reports one affiliate-owned business open for all of 2024 (printed p.34). No franchised outlet is represented, although Item 20 shows two existed at year end.
- RISKVerdict B (Above average), verdict score 53/100 (higher is better).
- GROWTHPositive: net +1 franchised outlets in the latest year (1 opened, 0 closed) (Item 20).
- DATAItem 19 reports outlet revenue, but not in a form that yields a per-outlet average we can compare across brands. Ask franchisees directly for full unit-level revenue.
Item 1 · who you're contracting with
The Franchisor
Corporate structure & franchisor financials
- Legal entity
- GoJoe Patrol Franchising, LLC
- Ultimate parent
- State Protection Services, Inc. (SPS)
- FDD Item 1, page 6 of the 2025 FDD
- CEO title
- President and General Counsel
- Shawn Sladich
- Incorporated in
- Washington
- HQ
- 7011 E Trent Avenue, Suite 103, Spokane Valley, Washington 99212
- Auditor
- Moss Adams LLP
- Audited financials
- Franchisor revenue
- $219K
- vs $12K prior year
Independent franchisee associations
- Franchise Advisory Council (FAC)
Franchisee-led councils or alliances disclosed in Item 20. Indicates operator voice.
Affiliated brands
- operated two GoJoe Patrol businesses
- State Protection Services
Other brands the franchisor or its parent operates (Item 1).
Overview
About
- CEO
- Shawn Sladich
- Headquarters
- Washington
- Founded
- 2020
- FDD year
- 2025
- States available
- 4
Can you afford it, and what does the money buy?
Entry cost runs 63% below the typical pet services franchise.
Source: FDD 2025 · Items 5–7
Full Item 7 breakdown14 line items
Initial investment breakdown
| Line item | Low | High | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial Franchise Fee | $45K | $60K | |
| Furniture and Fixtures | $650 | $2K | |
| Computer, Communications Devices, Internet | $5K | $7K | |
| Vehicle(s) | $6K | $9K | |
| Professional Fees | $500 | $2K | |
| Pre-Opening Travel | $2K | $3K | |
| Market Introduction | $10K | $25K | |
| Business Permits and Licenses | $500 | $3K | |
| Rent | $0 | $8K | |
| Office Supplies and Stationery | $250 | $400 | |
| Employee Uniforms and Equipment | $400 | $2K | |
| Insurance and other pre-payments | $4K | $7K | |
| Miscellaneous | $3K | $4K | |
| Additional Funds | $15K | $21K | |
| Total initial investment | $91K | $152K |
Line items extracted from FDD Item 7. Ranges reflect the franchisor's stated low and high per line. Total is the sum of line-item lows / highs — actual costs may fall outside this range depending on market and build-out scope.
Item 7 · what it costs to open + operate
The Vitals
- Total investment
- $91K – $152K
- Top 40% of category vs category
- Liquid capital req'd
- $15K – $21K
- Top 40% of category vs category
- Franchise fee
- $45K – $60K
- Top 40% of category vs category
- Royalty
- 5.0%
- Set by a formula · typical 6–8%
- Ad fund
- 2.0%
- typical 3–5%
- Total fee load
- 7.5%
- vs 9–13% typical
Ongoing fees · Item 6
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Royalty | 5.0% of gross sales |
| Marketing / ad fund | 2.0% of gross sales |
| Technology fee | $1K |
| Transfer fee | $10K |
| Renewal fee | $0 |
| Inventory (initial) | $650 – $2K |
| Total fee load | 7.5% of rev |
What do units actually make?
Source: FDD 2025 · Item 19
ROI & LBO modelsSingle-unit · 25-unit portfolio · editable
No Item 19 revenue figure for GoJoe Patrol is on file. The return models need a revenue figure to start from, and the operating costs that turn gross sales into a profit are in no FDD. Enter your own and the calculator runs on your assumptions — nothing here is modelled until you do.
Returns model · single-unit ROIC
What would one GoJoe Patrol unit return on the cash you put in?
Illustrative category typicals — not sourced to any filing, survey or sample. Replace them with figures from franchisee validation calls before you rely on the output.
Unlevered ROIC · per unit
Your modelled return on total invested capital, before any debt financing.
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An FDD discloses gross sales, not profit. We hold no sourced figure for annual revenue, COGS, labour, rent / occupancy and other operating costs, and will not substitute an assumed one. Enter your own and the model runs on your assumptions.
These models are for research and scenario planning only. Not investment advice. Actual results depend on your specific location, management, and market conditions. Consult a franchise attorney and accountant before signing any franchise agreement.
Item 19 · Source: 2025 FDD
Financial Performance
Item 19 reports one affiliate-owned business open for all of 2024 (printed p.34). No franchised outlet is represented, although Item 20 shows two existed at year end.
Company-owned outlets only - not franchisee performance
Based on a single reporting unit - not a system average
- Item 19 type
- actual
- Sample size
- 1
- vs category median 12 · small
- Reported figure
- $7.0MCited, not corroborated — printed on page 39 of the 2025 FDD. Nothing else in our record independently restates or re-derives it.
- A single outlet — not a range
- Reporting year
- 2024
- Fiscal year the figures cover
- Source filing
- FDD 2025
- Disclosed in the 2025 filing, covering 2024
- Transparency
- 3 / 10
- vs category median 4 / 10 · below
Compared against 69 Pet Services brands
Operator outlook
What the numbers say
Data-driven interpretation of this brand's financial disclosures, fee structure, and system trajectory.
Fee burden
Total ongoing fee load of 7.5% (near the Pet Services median).
Disclosure
Item 19 reports outlet revenue, but not in a form that yields a per-outlet average we can compare across brands.
Operator retention
Net unit growth of +100.0% over 3 years (1 opened, 0 closed).
Multi-unit rate
Only 1% of franchisees own multiple units. Could indicate challenging economics or a young system where operators haven't had time to expand.
Source: FDD Item 19 financial performance representations and publicly filed FDD data. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Verify all figures with the franchisor and current franchisees before making any investment decision.
vs Pet Services medians
How GoJoe Patrol Compares
Category median of published Pet Services brands that report the figure; the middle half spans the 25th to 75th percentile and n counts the brands behind it. Medians are used because a few very large systems pull an average far from the typical brand. Revenue is disclosed gross sales, not profit.
Is the system healthy?
Source: FDD 2025 · Item 20
Unit growth
Item 20 · unit dynamics
The Growth Chart
- Total units
- 4
- Opened
- 1
- Last reporting year
- Closed
- 0
- Terminated
- 0
- Franchisor ended the franchise (per Item 20)
- Non-renewed
- 0
- Term expired, not renewed (per Item 20)
- Turnover rate
- N/A
- Company-owned
- 2
- Corporate units in the system
- % franchised
- 50%
- vs corporate-owned
- Multi-unit owners
- 1.0%
- Net growth (3-yr)
- +100.0%
- Net unit change over 3 years
Last fiscal year · Item 20 exits and transfers
- Terminated
- 0
- Not renewed
- 0
- Transferred
- 0
- Reacquired
- 0
- Franchisor bought back
- Signed, not yet open
- 0
- 0.00 per open outlet · Item 20 Table 5
- Projected new
- 6
- Franchisor's next-year forecast
- Ceased ops
- 25.0%
- Units that stopped operating
Year-over-year franchised unit counts and net change. Source: FDD Item 20.
Item 12 · 4 states reported
The Territory Map
FDD Item 12 reports the state count, but the specific list isn't in our current data. The map will appear once we re-extract from the FDD or enough franchisee contacts are available.
4
states with franchisees (per FDD Item 12)
Where the owners are · Item 20 owner list
0 current owners across 0 states; 2 former (terminated, transferred or not renewed) listed separately.
Counts only, from the list the franchisor prints in Item 20. Names and phone numbers are for your own due diligence and are not shown here.
Fast growth in a small system. Newer franchisors expanding quickly may not yet have the support infrastructure of larger systems.
SBA loan performance
Government records
SBA Loan Data
Aggregated from SBA loan disclosures. This brand has only 1 7(a) loan on file; statistical reliability is limited below 10 loans.
- Total loans
- 1
- Loan volume
- $150K
- Median loan
- $150K
- 50th percentile
- Charge-off rate
- Under 10 loans (1)
- Insufficient SBA coverage: 1 loan, rate hidden below 10
Historical SBA 7(a) lending data, not predictive of future performance. How SBA charge-off rates are calculated
- Repayment rate (PIF)
- Under 10 loans (1)
- 5-yr charge-off
- Under 10 loans (1)
- Loans approved 2021+
- Active lenders
- 1
- Defaults
- N/A
Explore lender portfolios on Bank Reports or regional data on State Reports.
What could kill this investment?
Source: SBA 7(a) FOIA · FDD Items 3, 21
Risk analysis
FranchiseVerdict rating + FDD Items 3, 4, 8, 16, 21
Risk & Legal
Early-stage 4-unit system with opaque profitability, high upfront costs, and undisclosed net income creates meaningful uncertainty about unit-level returns and franchisor viability.
Litigation (Item 3)
Subject: officers or affiliates. The franchisor is not a named party in these cases.
No litigation disclosed.
Bankruptcy (Item 4)
None disclosed
Audited financials (Item 21)
Yes · Moss Adams LLP
Franchisor revenue (Item 21)
Franchisor entity revenue (not unit-level)
Supplier relationship · Items 8 & 16
- Franchisor sells you products: No
- Kickbacks from required suppliers: No
- Must buy proprietary products: Yes
- Restricted to system-approved products: Yes
- Can negotiate own supplier terms: No
Score breakdown · what drove the 53 / 100 verdict
- 01MEDOnly 4 franchised units with 100% YoY growth suggests extremely early-stage system with limited track record and scale
- 02MINORHigh initial investment ($90,900–$152,100) relative to minimal royalty ($3,540 minimum after year 3) creates revenue concentration risk for franchisor sustainability
Severity inferred from the FDD text · not a regulatory classification
What are you signing up for?
Ongoing fees run about 7.5% of sales (royalty + ad fund), before rent and labor.
Source: FDD 2025 · Items 11, 12, 17
FDD Items 12, 15, 17 · continued from Risk & Legal
Contract & Territory Detail
| Initial term | 10 years |
|---|---|
| Renewal term | 5 years |
| Allowed renewalsℹ | 2 |
| Territory type | Protected territory |
| Protected territory | Yes |
| Exclusive territoryℹ | No |
| Territory population | 500,000 |
| Online sales rightsℹ | Restricted |
| Franchisor can compete | Yes |
| Hire a manager? | Allowed |
| Owner-operator | Optional |
| Non-compete (years)ℹ | 2 years |
| Non-compete (miles)ℹ | 10 mi |
| Right of first refusalℹ | Yes |
| Transfer requires consent | Yes |
| Termination notice | 30 days |
| Termination groundsℹ | 16 |
| Curable defaultsℹ | 3 |
| Mandatory arbitration | No |
| Arbitration location | Spokane Valley, Washington |
| Jury trial waiver | No |
| Governing law | Washington |
| Litigation count | 0 |
View Item 3 litigation summary
No litigation disclosed.
Items 10, 11
Training & Operations
- Classroom training
- 33 hrs
- On-the-job training
- 8 hrs
- Training location
- Corporate office in Spokane Valley, WA and in-field, Spokane Valley, WA
- Ongoing training
- Required
- Field support
- 8 hrs/yr
- On-site visits per year
- Time to open
- 3 mo
- From signing to launch
- Site selection
- franchisee
- Franchisor financing
- Not offered
- Item 10
- POS system
- RevSuite (Team Software, Silvertrac, GPS Insight, Driver i, FranConnect)
- Operating tech stack
Items 5 & 11
Franchisor Support
Technology: RevSuite (Team Software, Silvertrac, GPS Insight, Driver i, FranConnect)
Item 20 · call current owners
Franchisee Contacts
2 owners to call
Name · phone · city · state. Extracted from FDD Item 20
Frequently asked questions
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to open a GoJoe Patrol franchise?
The total investment to open a GoJoe Patrol franchise ranges from $91K – $152K, with an initial franchise fee of $45K. This includes real estate, equipment, inventory, and working capital as disclosed in their Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD).
What do GoJoe Patrol franchise owners earn?
Item 19 of the GoJoe Patrol FDD discloses outlet figures from $7.0M to $7.0M but no single average across all outlets. These are gross sales figures, not profit; the Revenue section shows what the filing reports and on what basis. Item 20 of the FDD lists current and former franchisees; asking them directly is the standard way to fill this gap.
Who owns GoJoe Patrol?
GoJoe Patrol is franchised by GoJoe Patrol Franchising, LLC. The ultimate parent named in the FDD is State Protection Services, Inc. (SPS). Source: FDD Item 1, 2025 filing.
What is Item 19 in the GoJoe Patrol FDD?
The FDD section where a franchisor may disclose financial performance of its outlets. Disclosure is optional and formats vary; figures are typically gross sales, which is revenue before expenses, not profit. FranchiseVerdict extracts these figures directly from the GoJoe Patrol FDD and qualifies whose outlets they describe.
What is GoJoe Patrol's franchise failure rate?
SBA 7(a) loan charge-off data is not available for GoJoe Patrol (fewer than 10 loans on file). Charge-off rates are one way to gauge franchise risk, but not all franchise loans go through the SBA program. We recommend reviewing turnover and closure data in the FDD and speaking with current franchisees.
How many GoJoe Patrol franchise locations are there?
As of their most recent FDD filing, GoJoe Patrol has 4 total units in the United States, including 2 franchised units and 2 company-owned units. 1 new units were opened in the latest reporting year.
Is GoJoe Patrol a good franchise to buy?
FranchiseVerdict rates GoJoe Patrol as a B-grade franchise with a verdict score of 53 out of 100 (higher is better). The grade is a deterministic score built from six weighted dimensions — financial health, unit economics, unit growth, scale, legal, and transparency — then calibrated against SBA loan charge-off rates and FDD age. Transparency is one of the six, so a filing that discloses less scores lower on that dimension than one that discloses more. Our rating is based solely on publicly available FDD and government data; we recommend speaking with current franchisees before making any investment decision. This is not investment advice.
Data sourced from public FDD filings and SBA 7(a) FOIA records. Not financial advice.
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Data extracted from public FDD filings and SBA 7(a) loan disclosures (FOIA). This information is provided for research purposes only and does not constitute financial, legal, or investment advice. Verify all figures with the franchisor's current Franchise Disclosure Document before making any investment decision.