Bottom line
- Total investment $150K – $222K including a $50K franchise fee, 6.5% ongoing royalty.
- Average unit revenue of $729K/year (median $489K).
- Rated STRONG with a risk score of 41/100. SBA loan default rate of 0.0% across 10 loans (below the industry average).
- System growing at 29.5% CAGR over 3 years with 57 total units — strong expansion trajectory.
Item 1 · who you're contracting with
The Franchisor
Yale framework · single-unit ROIC
Returns Analysis
Pulls Item 7 (investment) and Item 19 (revenue) from this brand's FDD into the Yale unlevered-ROIC formula. Override any input to stress-test it against your own assumptions.
The model · Yale framework
What would one Granite Garage Floors unit return on the cash you put in?
Unlevered ROIC · per unit
34%
In Yale's "attractive" band (30–60%)
Levered LBO scenario · Yale Crease Capital framing
What would 25 Granite Garage Floors units return on equity?
Equity IRR · 5-yr
49.9%
7.57× MOIC
Year-1 DSCR
1.88×
EBITDA ÷ debt service
Equity required
$511K
on $2.6M purchase
Total debt
$2.0M
SBA $1.3M + senior + seller note
Overview
About
Franchisees operate a garage floor coating and epoxy installation business, managing crews to apply polyurea, epoxy, and polyaspartic coatings to residential and commercial concrete floors. Day-to-day operations include customer acquisition, job estimation, crew scheduling, quality control on installations, and customer service. The business is service-based with high labor and material costs, operating in local protected territories.
Item 7 · what it costs
The Vitals
Item 19
Financial Performance
Item 20 · unit dynamics
The Growth Chart
Year-over-year franchised unit counts and net change. Source: FDD Item 20.
Item 20 · 18 states with active franchisees
The Territory Map
Derived from franchisee contact records. Shows states with at least one current operator — not where the franchisor is registered to sell new units (that data is re-extracting in a future refresh).
States derived from franchisee phone area codes (Item 20). Approximate — ported numbers may show the original state, not the franchisee's current location.
Government records
SBA Loan Data
Aggregated from SBA 7(a) loan disclosures, public data unique to FranchiseVerdict.
FranchiseVerdict rating + FDD Items 3, 5, 6, 12, 17
Risk & Legal
Granite Garage Floors presents caution-level risk due to undisclosed profitability metrics, sluggish unit growth, parent company compliance violations, and high initial capital requirements without clear ROI transparency.
Score breakdown · what drove the 41 / 100 rating
- 01MEDNet income not disclosed in FDD Item 19 — unable to verify actual profitability claims against $729k average revenue
- 02MINORSlow unit growth of 3.6% YoY suggests market saturation or franchisee satisfaction issues in a 57-unit system
- 03MINORParent company (MaidPro) SEC violation in 2025 for franchise fee deferral violations raises compliance and operational governance concerns
- 04MINORHigh initial investment ($149.5k–$222.2k) relative to transparent financial data creates ROI verification gap
- 05MINOR6.5% royalty on gross sales (not net) compounds pressure on franchisees with thin margins in service businesses
Severity inferred from the FDD text · not a regulatory classification
FDD Items 5, 6, 12, 17 · continued from Risk & Legal
Contract & Territory Detail
Item 11
Training & Operations
Item 20
Franchisee Contacts
Phone numbers extracted directly from this brand's FDD Item 20. After purchase, you'll also receive a list of validation questions tailored to this brand.
Franchisee contacts
32 numbers
One-time purchase · CSV download · Validation questions included
FDD download
Granite Garage Floors · FDD (2026) PDF