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Budget Blinds

Budget Blinds

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Home Services/Retail · Ontario, CA · Founded 1992 · Franchising since 1994
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Total to open · Item 7
$101K–$211K
Franchise fee · Item 5
Structured
$14,950 for first Territory (no fee for subsequent territories)
Owner turnover
0.0%/yr
3-yr average from Item 20 — lower is better
Factbook Score
Pending
Only 2 year(s) of Item 20 outlet history on file
✓ No bankruptcy disclosures6 litigation disclosures · Item 3✓ Shares earnings data · Item 19Pre-confidence-scoring extractionWhy these flags?

Beyond the filing

Everything else on this page is quoted from Budget Blinds's franchise disclosure document. This is not — it is measured off the open web, it is not verified by the franchisor, and it never affects the Factbook Score.

Customer rating
4.9 / 5
6,977 Google reviews across 17 locations
Best to worst location
3.9 – 5.0
Where this brand's locations sit on the same scale — the gap is what varies between franchisees
Website health
10 / 10
Basic checks: HTTPS, mobile viewport, speed, metadata. Most sites clear them
Store locator
Yes
Their site has a finder that sends customers to their nearest branch — how walk-in trade reaches a franchisee
iPhone app
2.9 / 5
74 App Store ratings · SHC Budget Blinds
Android app
None found
No Play Store link on their site — an app they don't link from their homepage would read the same way
Google returns at most twenty locations for a search, so the rating is a sample of Budget Blinds's outlets rather than all of them. Measured Sep 11, 2026.

Seen advertising or featured on: Franchise Direct Top 100 Global top 10. Noted for provenance — paid placement elsewhere has no bearing on anything shown here.

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Opening a Budget Blinds: $101K–$211K
From its official FDD · franchisefactbook.com
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Data-integrity flags on this profile
  • warnUnderlying filing appears to be from 2014 (12 years old) — fees and investment ranges may have changed materially since; treat as historical until refreshed against a current filing.
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These figures predate our extraction-confidence scoring

They were captured before we began scoring extraction confidence, so we can't put a number on them. They remain sourced — the filing is linked below. We publish the score rather than hiding it — see the methodology.

Royalty
4%
Graduated flat fee: $300/mo (months 1-6), $700/mo (months 7-12), $1,100/mo (months 13-24), $1,500/mo thereafter
Franchised units
776
As of 2013
3-yr unit growth
+13.0%/yr
CAGR from Item 20

What it really costs

Every cost figure this brand's filing discloses — not just the headline range

Total initial investment · Item 7$101K–$211K
$0$250K
ExpenseLowHigh
Initial franchise fee
Total initial investment$100,500$211,250

Item 7 reports a total range, not a full line-item breakdown, in this brand's filing excerpt — the franchise fee is the only cost we can show separately today.

Costs more to open than 29% of home services franchises on this site with a disclosed Item 7 range (203 compared). Computed from total investment, not a figure from the filing itself.

Earnings disclosure

Does the franchisor share performance data? Yes

Average revenue$451,410
Median revenue$322,250
Sample size199

Legal history

CLEAR
No bankruptcy disclosures for the franchisor or its officers.
6 CASES
Six litigation matters disclosed, including one arbitration award against the franchisor for $275,234.58 and a related federal court denial of the franchisor's petition to vacate that award.
PROTECTED
Item 12 grants a protected territory.
NOTED
Non-compete: 2 year(s) / 25 mile(s) after leaving the system.

Openings, closures & reacquisitions

The numbers ranking sites don't show — straight from the brand's filings

OpenedClosed / terminated / not renewedReacquired
00020120002013

Tell me when Budget Blinds files something new

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Common questions

Answered from this brand's own FDD filing. Where the filing is silent, the question is left out rather than answered with a guess.

How much does a Budget Blinds franchise cost?

Budget Blinds' most recent Franchise Disclosure Document puts the total estimated initial investment at $101K–$211K. That is Item 7, which covers everything needed to open — the franchise fee, build-out, equipment, opening inventory and initial working capital. The initial franchise fee is not a single figure: $14,950 for first Territory (no fee for subsequent territories)

What royalty does Budget Blinds charge?

Budget Blinds charges a continuing royalty of 4% of gross sales, disclosed in Item 6. Royalties are charged on revenue, not profit, so they are owed whether or not the outlet is profitable.

Does Budget Blinds disclose earnings (Item 19)?

Yes. Budget Blinds makes a financial performance representation in Item 19 of its FDD. The filing reports average annual gross revenue of $451,410 and a median of $322,250. That figure covers 199 outlets. Item 19 is optional under the FTC Franchise Rule, and gross revenue is not profit — it is stated before royalties, rent, staff and every other cost.

Does Budget Blinds give a protected territory?

Budget Blinds' FDD describes a protected territory in Item 12. Protection varies in what it actually excludes — franchisors commonly reserve online sales and alternative channels inside it — so the wording in the filing matters more than the yes.

Facts on this page are sourced from Budget Blinds' Franchise Disclosure Document.

Item 19 figures are 2013 average/median annual sales for a single territory, based on 199 respondents (79% response rate). Item 20 table only had start/end counts extracted (opened/closed/terminated/etc. breakdown not captured in this pass). This is a 2014-vintage FDD; current fees/investment levels are likely higher today.