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Weed Man

Weed Man

Partial FDD data
Pest Control/Lawn Care · Mississauga, ON · Founded 1970 · Franchising since 1976
Low confidence · 0.40Unclaimed profile
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Total to open · Item 7
$81K–$108K
Franchise fee · Item 5
Structured
$20,000 (territory under 150,000 population) to $33,750 (150,000-300,000 populat
Owner turnover
Awaiting Item 20 extraction
Factbook Score
Pending
Brand has 0 year(s) of Item 20 history in our current extraction
No Item 19 earnings dataWhy these flags?

Beyond the filing

Everything else on this page is quoted from Weed Man'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
2.9 / 5
8 Google reviews across 1 location
Website health
8 / 10
Basic checks. Issues here: slow first byte
Store locator
No
No finder on their site, so customers can't look up a nearby branch from it
iPhone app
0.0 / 5
0 App Store ratings · Weed Man Conference
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 Weed Man's outlets rather than all of them, and this one is small enough that it should be read as a single franchisee's reviews rather than the system's. Measured Sep 11, 2026.

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Every figure on this page comes from Weed Man's own disclosure filings, source linked. Compare it against its category before any discovery call — and read the FDD with an attorney before signing anything.

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Opening a Weed Man: $81K–$108K
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Figures below were extracted with low confidence (0.40 of 1.00)

They have not cleared our 0.85 QA bar, usually because no primary regulator-hosted filing was reachable and the figures come from a secondary source. Treat them as indicative and check the linked source before relying on them. We publish the score rather than hiding it — see the methodology.

Royalty
7%
6.5% of net sales up to $1,000,000 annual sales, then 5.5% above that threshold
Franchised units
3-yr unit growth
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$81K–$108K
$0$250K
ExpenseLowHigh
Initial franchise fee
Total initial investment$80,535$107,785

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 17% 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? No

This brand's filing does not include an Item 19 financial performance representation. That's common — a large share of franchisors disclose nothing here — but it means you should ask for unit-level economics directly during discovery calls. Compare against home services brands that do disclose one.

Legal history

CLEAR
No bankruptcy disclosures for the franchisor or its officers.
NOT DISCLOSED
Non-compete term/radius wasn't separately quantified in the filing excerpt we have on file.

Tell me when Weed Man files something new

Franchisors refile every year, and fees, investment ranges and closure counts move between filings. We'll email you when this brand's figures change — nothing else, and never a sales sequence.

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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 Weed Man franchise cost?

Weed Man's most recent Franchise Disclosure Document puts the total estimated initial investment at $81K–$108K. 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: $20,000 (territory under 150,000 population) to $33,750 (150,000-300,000 population), per franchimp.com 2024 FDD preview text

What royalty does Weed Man charge?

Weed Man charges a continuing royalty of 7% of gross sales, disclosed in Item 6. A separate brand or advertising fund contribution of 1% applies on top. Royalties are charged on revenue, not profit, so they are owed whether or not the outlet is profitable.

Does Weed Man disclose earnings (Item 19)?

No. Weed Man makes no financial performance representation in its FDD. Item 19 is the only optional item under the FTC Franchise Rule, so omitting it is lawful and common — but it means the franchisor publishes no revenue or profit figures for its outlets, and any figure quoted elsewhere is not from the filing.

Facts on this page are sourced from a third-party archive's copy of Weed Man's Franchise Disclosure Document, not filed with us directly — treat figures here as one step further from the original filing.

Weed Man is a Canadian-founded (Mississauga, ON) lawn care franchisor operating under a Delaware-incorporated US entity for the American FDD. sharpsheets.io separately quotes a rounder Item 5 figure of '$30,000-$50,000' that conflicts with the tiered figure pulled directly from the franchimp.com FDD preview text; the franchimp figure is treated as more authoritative since it reads like verbatim FDD language. Item 19: the FDD excerpt notes financial performance information exists but states it was not independently audited/verified; no specific average/median revenue or sample size was recoverable from the free preview. Item 20: sharpsheets.io states there are 23 total locations, all franchise-owned (no company-owned units), but provides no year-by-year opened/closed/transferred breakdown, so no item20_by_year entry could be populated without guessing.