1-800-GOT-JUNK? franchise
A franchisee operates a residential and commercial junk removal business, dispatching branded trucks with dump bodies to haul away non-hazardous items across an assigned territory made up of census-based subterritories, with all customer orders booked through the franchisor's call center and CRM system.
Owner-operator required Disclosed
- Source
- 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document — 1-800-GOT-JUNK? LLC
- Document
- FDD 2026, issued 2026-04-30
- Item
- Item 15
- Page
- PDF p. 39
- Obtained
- Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration Search, file 641801
The Principal Operator must devote his or her full time, attention and effort to the Franchised Business.
The business must be under the direct supervision at all times of a Principal Operator who holds a minimum beneficial ownership share, generally 20% (the franchisor may require a different amount before the agreement is signed). The Principal Operator must devote full time, attention and effort to the business, must complete initial training, and cannot be changed or replaced without the franchisor's prior written consent. During the term, the franchisee's owners are barred from competing with or holding a financial interest in any competitive business.
What stands out
- Total initial investment of $182,300 to $303,500 for a territory of 8 to 12 subterritories, with $90,000 to $122,500 payable to the franchisor at signing (initial franchise fee of $8,125 per subterritory plus a $25,000 Initial Marketing Expense).
- Ongoing fees are 8% royalty plus an 8% Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee on Gross Revenue, with an additional 8% of Gross Revenue required to be spent on local advertising and a Minimum Royalty per subterritory payable regardless of sales.
- Item 19 gives 2025 gross revenue only, in tenure cohorts and split between independent and affiliate-owned outlets; no system-wide average and no cost or profit data are disclosed.
5 more observations
- The 72 independent U.S. franchisees operating more than six years averaged $3,700,612 in 2025, median $2,620,872, low $615,192, with 42% at or above the average.
- U.S. franchised outlets fell from 133 to 92 between the start of 2023 and the end of 2025 while affiliate-owned outlets rose from 8 to 46; Item 20 records no terminations or closures, only reacquisitions.
- No exclusive territory: the franchisor reserves the right to serve National Account Customers inside the territory and can reduce or remove territorial protection if the franchisee is in default.
- Five-year term with three five-year renewals; owner-operator model requiring a Principal Operator with roughly 20% equity working full time, personal guarantees from all owners and a spousal consent.
- The cover page carries four state-required special risks, including out-of-state dispute resolution, mandatory minimum payments, spousal liability, and a statement that the franchisor's financial condition calls into question its ability to support franchisees.
Things to verify
- Read the Item 21 financial statements alongside the cover-page special risk about the franchisor's financial condition, and ask what has changed since the statement date.
- Ask why 52 franchised outlets left the franchised count over three years with zero terminations recorded, and on what terms the affiliate DBA acquired them.
- Ask for the average and median 2025 gross revenue across all 138 U.S. outlets, and for the same figures excluding affiliate-owned outlets, since Item 19 reports neither.
5 more questions
- Model the full fee load — 8% royalty, 8% marketing and technology, 8% local advertising, plus Minimum Royalty per subterritory — against realistic gross revenue for the specific territory offered.
- Confirm the number of subterritories in the territory being offered and how it compares with the system average of 23, since revenue scales with territory size.
- Price two complete trucks with dump bodies from the designated supplier; Item 7 shows only the lease or deposit, not the roughly $77,750 to $82,700 each.
- Clarify which dispute-resolution provision governs, given the cover page describes mediation in Vancouver and litigation in Seattle while Item 17 states arbitration and litigation in King County, Washington.
- Ask about National Account work: how often the franchisor routes it to third parties inside a franchisee's territory and how the payment to the franchisee is set.
Economics: No calculator is offered because no annual average unit sales disclosed in Item 19. Model availability
Evidence confidence: High. This describes source support, not investment quality. AI-extracted and machine-verified where stated; no human line-by-line review. Source and review record.
Read the full research overview
A 1-800-GOT-JUNK? franchisee runs a residential and commercial junk-removal operation, sending branded trucks fitted with dump bodies to haul away non-hazardous items. The territory is the unit of sale: the franchisor assembles it from census-based subterritories of 62,500 to 75,000 people each, and the smallest territory offered is eight of them. Item 7 estimates the total initial investment at $182,300 to $303,500 for a territory of 8 to 12 subterritories, of which $90,000 to $122,500 goes to the franchisor at signing — the initial franchise fee of $8,125 per subterritory plus a mandatory $25,000 Initial Marketing Expense. The estimate assumes a small leased office and a leased or partly financed truck; a complete truck costs about $77,750 to $82,700 and at least two are required. Continuing fees are 8% of Gross Revenue in royalty and another 8% for the Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee, with a further 8% of Gross Revenue required to be spent locally, plus a per-subterritory Minimum Royalty payable whether or not sales occur.
Item 19 is a gross-revenue-only representation, unaudited and supplied by franchisees. It covers 138 U.S. Franchised Businesses for calendar 2025 but reports them in cohorts by age and splits independent franchisees from 46 outlets owned by the franchisor's affiliate DBA, so no system-wide average or median is disclosed. The largest cohort — 72 independent franchisees operating more than six years — averaged $3,700,612 with a median of $2,620,872 and a low of $615,192, and 42% reached the average. The three newest independent outlets averaged $242,191. Across all U.S. outlets, 81% billed over $1,000,000 and 6% billed $500,000 or less, on total U.S. franchised revenue of $588,680,112. No cost, margin or profit figure is given, and territory sizes range from 5 to 89 subterritories, so per-outlet figures are not directly comparable.
Item 20 shows a shrinking franchised base inside a growing revenue system. Franchised outlets went 133 to 133 to 104 to 92 across 2023–2025, while affiliate-owned outlets went 8 to 16 to 42 to 46. Only 11 franchised outlets opened in three years, and the FDD records zero terminations, zero non-renewals and zero other closures — every departure from the franchised count is logged as a reacquisition by the franchisor (7, then 30, then 15). Transfers to other buyers ran 14, 3 and 16. The franchisor projects a single new franchisee in the next fiscal year and reports no signed agreements awaiting opening.
Items 3 and 4 disclose no litigation and no bankruptcy. The main contractual risks are elsewhere: a five-year term, personal guarantees from every owner with a spousal consent, an 18-month post-term non-compete covering the former territory and its metropolitan area, no exclusive territory, and a cover-page statement — required by certain states — that the franchisor's financial condition calls into question its ability to provide services and support. Minimum liquidity and net-worth requirements are not disclosed in the reviewed source.
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How these are computedEach dimension is scored 1–5 from published formulas. Missing data yields “Not enough evidence to rate”, never a low score. There is no composite score by design.
How the system has performed, computed from the disclosed Items 7, 19 and 20. Figures a documented material source inconsistency puts in doubt are excluded, and the dimension shows “Not rated”.
Inputs
- Franchised outlets 133 → 92 (Item 20, Table 3)
- Thresholds: ≥15% → 5; 5–15% → 4; 0–5% → 3; −5–0% → 2; below −5% → 1
Inputs
- Attrition = (terminations + non-renewals + reacquisitions + ceased-other) ÷ start-of-year franchised units, averaged over 3 fiscal years
- Thresholds: <2% → 5; 2–4% → 4; 4–6% → 3; 6–10% → 2; >10% → 1
Inputs
- No annual average unit sales disclosed
How much this brand’s FDD discloses, and how well-supported our data on it is. This measures transparency, not business performance — a strong business that discloses little scores low here and stays unrated above.
Inputs
- Item 19 present (+1)
- Average plus median or a distribution (+1)
- Population 150% of franchised units, clearly described (+1)
- Multi-year or cohort data (+1)
Details
- Missing: Annual AUV
- Franchisor Track Record
- Franchising 27 years (since 1999) · 138 outlets · Item 3: no litigation disclosed · Item 4: none disclosed
- Multi-Unit Scalability
- Every franchise is inherently multi-territory: the smallest territory offered is eight subterritories and the Item 7 table runs to twelve, with each addition… · Owner-operator required
- Operational Intensity
- Owner-operator required
Initial investment
FDD Items 5 and 7Format shown: New territory of 8 to 12 subterritories (8 is the minimum territory offered), operated from a leased 300–400 sq ft office with a minimum of two trucks
$182,300–$303,500 total initial investment. Excludes real estate purchase. Includes 6 months of additional funds.
View full investment breakdown — Items 5 & 7
| Initial franchise fee (the named Item 5 fee only) | $65,000 Disclosed
Fee is $8,125 per subterritory with an 8-subterritory minimum ($65,000); FDD's own example for 12 subterritories is $97,500. No stated maximum. Prior-year sales as low as $50,000 are historical/expansion data, not the standard schedule. Other required Item 5 payments to the franchisor are listed separately below — this figure is the named fee only. $97,500 Disclosed
Fee is $8,125 per subterritory with an 8-subterritory minimum ($65,000); FDD's own example for 12 subterritories is $97,500. No stated maximum. Prior-year sales as low as $50,000 are historical/expansion data, not the standard schedule. Other required Item 5 payments to the franchisor are listed separately below — this figure is the named fee only. |
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| Other required initial payments to the franchisor (Item 5) |
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| Total Item 5 payments to franchisor/affiliates | $90,000 Derived
$122,500 Derived
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| Total initial investment — low | $182,300 Disclosed
Low end assumes 8 subterritories, a leased truck, and one person attending training. The printed TOTAL row foots exactly to the sum of the line items. |
| Total initial investment — high | $303,500 Disclosed
High end assumes 12 subterritories, a 20% down payment on a purchased truck, two people attending training, and the higher insurance premiums the franchisor associates with California, Florida, Louisiana, New York and Texas. The printed TOTAL row foots exactly to the sum of the line items. |
| Midpoint of range | $242,900 Derived
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| Real estate purchase included? | No — assumes a leased site |
| Additional funds assumed | 6 months |
| Required liquid capital | Not disclosed in the reviewed source Not disclosedNot disclosed in the reviewed source. We did not find this value in 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document — 1-800-GOT-JUNK? LLC; we do not fill gaps with estimates or third-party figures. No minimum liquid-capital requirement is stated on the cover pages or in Items 1, 5, 7, 11, 12 or 15 of the reviewed document. |
| Required net worth | Not disclosed in the reviewed source Not disclosedNot disclosed in the reviewed source. We did not find this value in 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document — 1-800-GOT-JUNK? LLC; we do not fill gaps with estimates or third-party figures. No minimum net-worth figure is stated. Item 12 requires an existing franchisee seeking additional subterritories to submit an annual financial statement and a current personal net worth statement, but sets no dollar threshold. |
The single Item 7 table covers a franchisee with 8 to 12 subterritories; no separate conversion, non-traditional or multi-unit table is presented. The estimates assume a leased office, so no land or building purchase is included. Real estate appears only as rent and deposits. Trucks are shown as a lease or purchase deposit rather than the full vehicle price; the notes state the full truck cost is about $77,750 (gasoline) or $82,700 (diesel) each and that at least two trucks are required at start-up, with more added on an agreed schedule for larger territories. Additional funds cover six months and expressly exclude royalties, debt service, owner's draw and living expenses. The initial franchise fee and Initial Marketing Expense are refundable only if the franchisor does not approve the application.
Item 7 line items (11)
| Expenditure | Low | High |
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| Initial franchise fee — $8,125 per subterritory; 8 subterritories at the low end, 12 at the high end. | $65,000 | $97,500 |
| Initial Marketing Expense — Paid to the franchisor at signing and spent by it on local marketing in the first 6 months. | $25,000 | $25,000 |
| Computer hardware and software | $1,500 | $4,000 |
| Miscellaneous opening costs — Truck-based marketing kit, listings, uniforms, truck equipment, deposits, licences, legal. | $5,000 | $15,000 |
| Equipment — vehicle lease/purchase deposit (truck with dump body) — Full truck cost estimated at $77,750 (gas) or $82,700 (diesel) including a $25,100 dump body; minimum two trucks required. | $10,000 | $30,000 |
| Real estate / rent — Leased office of 300–400 sq ft; low assumes $750 monthly rent, high assumes $1,666. | $1,200 | $5,000 |
| Local marketing — 3 months | $3,600 | $5,000 |
| Insurance | $10,000 | $30,000 |
| Additional insurance premiums — certain states — California, Florida, Louisiana, New York or Texas. | $0 | $9,500 |
| Training expenses — Travel, lodging and meals for a 5-day stay; low assumes one attendee, high assumes two. | $2,000 | $7,500 |
| Additional funds — 6 months — Excludes owner's draw, living expenses, royalties and debt service. | $59,000 | $75,000 |
Source for every row: the Item 7 estimated-initial-investment table of 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document — 1-800-GOT-JUNK? LLC (table begins PDF p. 19) — rows inherit the table's citation rather than carrying fifteen identical ones.
Ongoing fees
FDD Item 6Royalty
8% of gross sales Disclosed
- Source
- 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document — 1-800-GOT-JUNK? LLC
- Document
- FDD 2026, issued 2026-04-30
- Item
- Item 6 — Other Fees table — Royalty
- Page
- PDF p. 12
- Obtained
- Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration Search, file 641801
8% of Gross Revenue, paid semi-monthly by electronic transfer within three business days of the 15th and last day of each month. A separate Minimum Royalty applies to each subterritory each calendar year regardless of sales: $1,200 in the first (pro-rated) year, $1,900 in year two, $2,500 in year three, $3,200 in year four and $4,000 in year five, rising by at least 10% on renewal. Gross Revenue is defined broadly, with deductions allowed only for sales taxes, approved refunds and credits, uncollectible accounts and approved discount coupons.
Brand advertising fund
8% of gross sales Disclosed
- Source
- 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document — 1-800-GOT-JUNK? LLC
- Document
- FDD 2026, issued 2026-04-30
- Item
- Item 6 — Other Fees table — Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee
- Page
- PDF p. 13
- Obtained
- Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration Search, file 641801
Called the Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee and paid into the Sales, Marketing and Technology Fund; due on the same semi-monthly schedule as the royalty. It funds both marketing and the technology platform, including the Sales Center and CRM system. Item 11 states the franchisor is not obliged to spend any amount in a given territory, the fund is not audited, and in the fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025 the fund was spent 14% on sales-center agent wages, 51% on sales-center administration and technology, 8.7% on commercial sales administration, 15.6% on media/production/design, 9.7% on marketing administration and 1% on social media.
Local marketing
8% of gross sales Disclosed
- Source
- 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document — 1-800-GOT-JUNK? LLC
- Document
- FDD 2026, issued 2026-04-30
- Item
- Item 11 — Minimum Local Advertising/Promotion Expenditure
- Page
- PDF p. 32
- Obtained
- Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration Search, file 641801
A minimum of 8% of Gross Revenue must be spent quarterly on local advertising and promotion, in addition to the 8% Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee. In the first year of operation the quarterly requirement is the greater of 8% of Gross Revenue or $3,600. Contributions to a branding cooperative may be credited against this obligation.
Core requirements shown separately; caps, credits and conditions may overlap. Check the full schedule for technology, cooperative, transfer and other charges.
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| Royalty | 8% of gross sales Disclosed
8% of Gross Revenue, paid semi-monthly by electronic transfer within three business days of the 15th and last day of each month. A separate Minimum Royalty applies to each subterritory each calendar year regardless of sales: $1,200 in the first (pro-rated) year, $1,900 in year two, $2,500 in year three, $3,200 in year four and $4,000 in year five, rising by at least 10% on renewal. Gross Revenue is defined broadly, with deductions allowed only for sales taxes, approved refunds and credits, uncollectible accounts and approved discount coupons. 8% of Gross Revenue, paid semi-monthly by electronic transfer within three business days of the 15th and last day of each month. A separate Minimum Royalty applies to each subterritory each calendar year regardless of sales: $1,200 in the first (pro-rated) year, $1,900 in year two, $2,500 in year three, $3,200 in year four and $4,000 in year five, rising by at least 10% on renewal. Gross Revenue is defined broadly, with deductions allowed only for sales taxes, approved refunds and credits, uncollectible accounts and approved discount coupons. |
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| Advertising / brand fund | 8% of gross sales Disclosed
Called the Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee and paid into the Sales, Marketing and Technology Fund; due on the same semi-monthly schedule as the royalty. It funds both marketing and the technology platform, including the Sales Center and CRM system. Item 11 states the franchisor is not obliged to spend any amount in a given territory, the fund is not audited, and in the fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025 the fund was spent 14% on sales-center agent wages, 51% on sales-center administration and technology, 8.7% on commercial sales administration, 15.6% on media/production/design, 9.7% on marketing administration and 1% on social media. Called the Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee and paid into the Sales, Marketing and Technology Fund; due on the same semi-monthly schedule as the royalty. It funds both marketing and the technology platform, including the Sales Center and CRM system. Item 11 states the franchisor is not obliged to spend any amount in a given territory, the fund is not audited, and in the fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025 the fund was spent 14% on sales-center agent wages, 51% on sales-center administration and technology, 8.7% on commercial sales administration, 15.6% on media/production/design, 9.7% on marketing administration and 1% on social media. |
| Required local marketing | 8% of gross sales Disclosed
A minimum of 8% of Gross Revenue must be spent quarterly on local advertising and promotion, in addition to the 8% Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee. In the first year of operation the quarterly requirement is the greater of 8% of Gross Revenue or $3,600. Contributions to a branding cooperative may be credited against this obligation. A minimum of 8% of Gross Revenue must be spent quarterly on local advertising and promotion, in addition to the 8% Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee. In the first year of operation the quarterly requirement is the greater of 8% of Gross Revenue or $3,600. Contributions to a branding cooperative may be credited against this obligation. |
| Technology / software | Not disclosed in the reviewed source Not disclosedNot disclosed in the reviewed source. We did not find this value in 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document — 1-800-GOT-JUNK? LLC; we do not fill gaps with estimates or third-party figures. No stand-alone recurring technology or POS fee is listed in Item 6. Technology costs, including the Sales Center and CRM system, are funded out of the combined 8% Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee recorded under ad_fund. A separate Payment Processor Application Fee of 0.12% of each processed transaction (which the franchisor may raise to a maximum of 0.9%) applies to franchisees using the preferred payment vendor and is listed under other_recurring. |
| Advertising cooperative | 5% of gross sales Disclosed
This is a ceiling, not a standard rate. Item 6 states the fee is imposed only where the franchisor authorises a branding cooperative in an area and franchisees representing 65% of the cooperative's gross revenue consent to paying fees; a franchisee can never be required to contribute more than 5% of Gross Revenue in aggregate across all cooperatives. Amounts paid may be credited toward the local marketing obligation. Franchisor-owned outlets in the area pay and vote on the same basis. This is a ceiling, not a standard rate. Item 6 states the fee is imposed only where the franchisor authorises a branding cooperative in an area and franchisees representing 65% of the cooperative's gross revenue consent to paying fees; a franchisee can never be required to contribute more than 5% of Gross Revenue in aggregate across all cooperatives. Amounts paid may be credited toward the local marketing obligation. Franchisor-owned outlets in the area pay and vote on the same basis. |
| Transfer fee | $10,000 one-time Disclosed
$2,500 is payable when the franchisee announces an intention to sell and the $7,500 balance on transfer. $2,500 is payable when the franchisee announces an intention to sell and the $7,500 balance on transfer. |
| Renewal fee | $7,500 one-time Disclosed
Due within three months before the current term expires; stated to defray the franchisor's legal and administrative renewal costs. Due within three months before the current term expires; stated to defray the franchisor's legal and administrative renewal costs. |
| Royalty + ad fund (% of sales) | 16% Derived
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Fee schedule (21 fees; 11 verified against the source, 10 single-pass)
Every recurring, conditional and one-time fee found in this FDD's Item 6 table (plus mandatory recurring costs disclosed in Items 7/11), each cited to its page and carrying its verification status: verified means two independent readings agreed or a tie-break re-inspection of the page decided it; single-pass means one reading captured it and it has not been independently confirmed (permitted only for fees that cannot move modeled economics — see the materiality rule). Amounts marked “not stated” are charged at then-current rates the FDD does not quantify and are never modeled as $0.
| Fee | Amount | Frequency | Mandatory | Verification | Cite | Notes |
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| Royalty | 8% of gross sales (min $1,200/annual) | biweekly | Yes | verified (tie-break) | Item 6, p. 12 | Paid by electronic transfer semi-monthly, within three business days of the 15th day and the last day of each month. |
| Minimum Royalty | Tiered (base $1,200) | annual | Yes | verified (2-pass) | Item 6, p. 12 | Evaluated independently per subterritory; due on or before March 31 each year; payable only if Royalties actually paid for that subterritory in the year are less than the Minimum Royalty for that year. Table row is on PDF page 12; the itemized year-1-through-year-5 schedule is in Note 2 on PDF page 17. |
| Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee | 8% of gross sales | biweekly | Yes | verified (tie-break) | Item 6, p. 13 | Due on the same semi-monthly schedule as the Royalty. Item 11 (PDF p.30-31) requires a contribution of 'not less than 8% of your Gross Revenue' to the Sales, Marketing and Technology Fund, so the rate can be raised. Category resolved to brand_fund rather than national_ad_fund: Item 11's disclosed FY2025 use of funds is majority Sales Center wages and administration/technology, with media, production and design a minority, so it is a combined brand/system fund, not a pure national advertising fund. No overlaps_with is needed — Item 11 states the local 8% is spent 'in addition to your contribution to the Sales, Marketing and Technology Fund'. |
| Branding Cooperative | Not stated | varies | No | verified (2-pass) | Item 6, p. 13 | Imposed only where franchisor authorizes a branding cooperative for the area and 65% (by gross revenue) of participating franchisees consent; franchisor-owned outlets in the area pay and vote on the same basis. |
| Optional Local Marketing Services and Assistance | $100–$500 | per event | No | verified (tie-break) | Item 6, p. 14 | Charged only if the franchisor provides local marketing services or assistance and the parties agree the amount in writing beforehand. |
| Additional Training and Retraining | $100 | per event | No | verified (tie-break) | Item 6, p. 14 | Applies only to additional training or retraining after the initial training of the Principal Operator and any other director, officer or shareholder the franchisor requires. |
| Transfer Fee | $10,000 | one time | Yes | single-pass | Item 6, p. 14 | $2,500 due upon announcing intention to sell; balance due upon transfer. [Listed by one verification pass only (A); not independently confirmed.] |
| Renewal Fee | $7,500 | per event | Yes | single-pass | Item 6, p. 14 | Due within 3 months before expiration of the current term; up to 3 renewal terms of 5 years each are available. [Listed by one verification pass only (A); not independently confirmed.] |
| Audit Expenses | $3,000–$7,500 | per event | No | single-pass | Item 6, p. 14 | Payable if the franchisor's examination/audit reveals a material deficiency in a franchisee report. [Listed by one verification pass only (A); not independently confirmed.] |
| Failure to Report Fee | 5% of other | per event | No | verified (tie-break) | Item 6, p. 15 | Payable on demand if the franchisee fails to submit a required semi-monthly report. |
| Interest on Late Payments | 24% of other | varies | No | single-pass | Item 6, p. 15 | Applies to all overdue amounts owed to the franchisor. [Listed by one verification pass only (A); not independently confirmed.] |
| Reimbursement for Declined Transfers | $50 | per event | No | single-pass | Item 6, p. 15 | Payable if a franchisee's electronic funds transfer is declined by its bank for any reason. [Listed by one verification pass only (A); not independently confirmed.] |
| Annual Conference | $1,500–$2,000 | annual | Yes | verified (tie-break) | Item 6, p. 15 | Attendance is compulsory: 'You must send attendees for each Franchised Business' (Franchise Agreement s.7.1(bb)). Pass B recorded the same fee under the id 'annual-conference'; only this entry should be kept so the conference is not counted twice. |
| Management Assistance | Not stated | per event | No | single-pass | Item 6, p. 15 | Payable if the franchisor exercises its right to run the franchisee's business. [Listed by one verification pass only (A); not independently confirmed.] |
| Liquidated Damages – Breach of Standards | $25–$5,000 | per event | No | single-pass | Item 6, p. 15 | Payable if the franchisor determines the franchisee has contravened a standard in the Franchise Agreement or Operations Manual. [Listed by one verification pass only (A); not independently confirmed.] |
| Liquidated Damages – Termination | Not stated | one time | No | single-pass | Item 6, p. 16 | Applies if the Franchise Agreement is terminated due to franchisee default. [Listed by one verification pass only (A); not independently confirmed.] |
| Indemnity | Not stated | varies | No | single-pass | Item 6, p. 16 | Franchisee must indemnify the franchisor for losses arising from the franchisee's operation of the business. [Listed by one verification pass only (A); not independently confirmed.] |
| Proposed Supplier Evaluation | Not stated | per event | No | single-pass | Item 6, p. 16 | Only charged if evaluating the proposed supplier requires the franchisor to incur non-trivial costs. [Listed by one verification pass only (A); not independently confirmed.] |
| Payment Processor Application Fee | 0.12%–0.9% of gross sales | varies | No | verified (2-pass) | Item 6, p. 16 | Applies only to franchisees signed up for payment processing with the franchisor's preferred vendor. |
| Payments for Future Products and Services | Not stated | varies | Yes | verified (tie-break) | Item 6, p. 16 | The franchisor reserves the right to designate itself or its affiliates as supplier for any product or service, and to require new products and services in the future. Pass B filed the same row under the id 'future-products-and-services'; keep only this entry. Category resolved to other_recurring — nothing in the row describes a subscription. |
| Minimum Local Advertising/Promotion Expenditure | 8% of gross sales (min $3,600/quarterly) | quarterly | Yes | verified (2-pass) | Item 11, p. 32 | In addition to the 8% Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee; Branding Cooperative contributions may be credited toward this obligation. |
The two headline continuing fees together take 16% of Gross Revenue (8% royalty plus 8% Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee), with a further 8% of Gross Revenue required to be spent on local advertising. Dollar fees in Item 6 are subject to an annual CPI adjustment. Item 6 states continuing fees are currently imposed uniformly on new franchisees, but franchisees awarded franchises in earlier years, franchisees prototyping new formats, and franchisees in which the franchisor or its affiliates hold an ownership interest may pay different fees; the franchisor also reserves discretion to reduce fees case by case and to change future fees. On termination for franchisee default, liquidated damages equal 100% of the royalties and 30% of the Sales, Marketing and Technology Fees that would have been due for the remainder of the term, based on the average of the 12 months before termination.
Financial performance (Item 19)
What the franchisor actually disclosedWho is represented: Part I covers the 138 Franchised Businesses that operated in the United States for more than one day and made any gross sales during the 12 months ended Dec 31, 2025 — 92 franchisees unaffiliated with the franchisor and 46 outlets owned and operated for the whole of 2025 by subsidiaries of affiliate 604816 LLC ('DBA'), which Item 20 classifies as company-owned. The two groups are reported in separate tables and each table is broken into cohorts by how long the outlet has been operating, so no single average covering all 138 outlets is given. Figures are per Franchised Business (a territory averaging 23 subterritories, ranging from 5 to 89, median 20), not per truck; the franchisor also reports the same statistics on a per-subterritory basis. Revenue includes partial-year results of outlets transferred during the year, combining both owners. Part II counts U.S., Canadian and Australian franchised businesses that reported revenue and were open on Dec 31, 2025; Part III totals revenue for all U.S., Canadian and Australian franchised businesses that operated at least one day in the year.
Qualifications: The data are compiled from unaudited figures supplied by franchisees. Gross Revenue is sales less taxes and approved refunds and credits; the FDD states expressly that the figures do not reflect cost of sales or operating expenses, so no profit information is disclosed. Parts II and III mix U.S. results with Canadian and Australian results from separate affiliated franchisors, converted at annual average exchange rates. Part I mixes independent franchisees with 46 outlets owned by the franchisor's own affiliate (DBA), reported in a separate table; DBA outlets show much higher averages, and there are no DBA outlets under 24 months old. Several cohorts contain only one to six outlets, and in the 36–48 and 48–60 month cohorts a single very large outlet lifts the mean well above the median. Figures are per Franchised Business, and territories vary from 5 to 89 subterritories, so per-outlet averages are not comparable across franchisees without the per-subterritory view. Revenue of outlets transferred mid-year combines both owners.
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Item 19 is a historical gross-revenue representation only. It reports 2025 Gross Revenue for 138 U.S. Franchised Businesses, split into a table of 92 independently owned franchisees and a table of 46 outlets operated by the franchisor's affiliate DBA, each broken into cohorts by how long the outlet has operated. Because of that structure there is no single system-wide average or median per outlet. The most heavily populated cohort — 72 independent franchisees operating more than six years — averaged $3,700,612 with a median of $2,620,872 and a range from $615,192 to $11,441,048, and 42% of those franchisees reached the average. Newer independent outlets are far smaller: the three that had operated under a year averaged $242,191. Item 19 also shows that 81% of U.S. outlets billed over $1,000,000 in 2025 and 6% billed $500,000 or less, and reports total U.S. franchised gross revenue of $588,680,112. What it does not show is any cost, margin or profit figure, any average across the whole system, or any indication of what an owner earns after the 8% royalty, 8% marketing and technology fee, 8% local advertising requirement, trucks, labour and disposal costs.
| Metric | Subset | Value | Units | Period | Cite |
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| Gross Revenue per franchisee — U.S. unaffiliated franchisees operating more than one day but less than 12 months 67% of units met or exceeded Median $260,541; range $201,185 to $264,846. Excludes DBA affiliate-operated outlets. | Unaffiliated U.S. franchisees, <12 months operating Average | $242,191 | 3 | CY2025 | FDD p.46 |
| Gross Revenue per franchisee — U.S. unaffiliated franchisees operating 12 to 24 months 100% of units met or exceeded Single outlet, so the average, median, high and low are all the same figure. | Unaffiliated U.S. franchisees, 12–24 months operating Average | $644,577 | 1 | CY2025 | FDD p.46 |
| Gross Revenue per franchisee — U.S. unaffiliated franchisees operating 24 to 36 months 67% of units met or exceeded Median $604,264; range $345,617 to $635,818. Average per subterritory $334,300. | Unaffiliated U.S. franchisees, 24–36 months operating Average | $539,928 | 6 | CY2025 | FDD p.46 |
| Gross Revenue per franchisee — U.S. unaffiliated franchisees operating 36 to 48 months 17% of units met or exceeded Median $561,477 against a range of $453,191 to $8,750,292; one outlier pulls the mean far above the median, and only 1 of 6 outlets reached the average. | Unaffiliated U.S. franchisees, 36–48 months operating Average | $1,946,893 | 6 | CY2025 | FDD p.46 |
| Gross Revenue per franchisee — U.S. unaffiliated franchisees operating 48 to 60 months 33% of units met or exceeded Median $766,106; range $282,544 to $4,838,989. | Unaffiliated U.S. franchisees, 48–60 months operating Average | $1,962,546 | 3 | CY2025 | FDD p.46 |
| Gross Revenue per franchisee — U.S. unaffiliated franchisees operating 60 to 72 months 100% of units met or exceeded Single outlet; average per subterritory $290,135. | Unaffiliated U.S. franchisees, 60–72 months operating Average | $870,404 | 1 | CY2025 | FDD p.47 |
| Gross Revenue per franchisee — U.S. unaffiliated franchisees operating more than 72 months 42% of units met or exceeded The largest single cohort disclosed: 72 of the 92 unaffiliated U.S. franchisees. Excludes all 46 DBA affiliate-operated outlets and all outlets under six years old. | Unaffiliated U.S. franchisees, 72+ months operating (largest cohort) Average | $3,700,612 | 72 | CY2025 | FDD p.47 |
| Gross Revenue per franchisee — median, U.S. unaffiliated franchisees operating more than 72 months The median sits about 29% below the cohort mean. | Unaffiliated U.S. franchisees, 72+ months operating Median | $2,620,872 | 72 | CY2025 | FDD p.47 |
| Gross Revenue per franchisee — highest, U.S. unaffiliated franchisees operating more than 72 months | Unaffiliated U.S. franchisees, 72+ months operating High | $11,441,048 | 72 | CY2025 | FDD p.47 |
| Gross Revenue per franchisee — lowest, U.S. unaffiliated franchisees operating more than 72 months | Unaffiliated U.S. franchisees, 72+ months operating Low | $615,192 | 72 | CY2025 | FDD p.47 |
| Gross Revenue per subterritory — U.S. unaffiliated franchisees operating more than 72 months 38% of units met or exceeded Median per subterritory $916,493; range $205,064 to $4,611,101. The franchisor computes each franchisee's revenue per subterritory first, then averages those results. | Unaffiliated U.S. franchisees, 72+ months operating, per subterritory Average | $1,151,054 | 72 | CY2025 | FDD p.47 |
| Gross Revenue per outlet — DBA affiliate-operated outlets operating more than 72 months 41% of units met or exceeded Median $5,284,988; range $567,806 to $21,194,166. These outlets are owned by an affiliate of the franchisor, not by independent buyers, and are counted as company-owned in Item 20. | DBA affiliate-operated outlets, 72+ months operating Average | $6,444,567 | 39 | CY2025 | FDD p.48 |
| Gross Revenue per outlet — median, DBA affiliate-operated outlets operating more than 72 months | DBA affiliate-operated outlets, 72+ months operating Median | $5,284,988 | 39 | CY2025 | FDD p.48 |
| Share of U.S. Franchised Businesses with 2025 Gross Revenue over $1,000,000 112 of 138 U.S. outlets. Comparable figures: Canada 18 of 21 (86%), Australia 6 of 6 (100%). | All 138 reporting U.S. Franchised Businesses open on Dec 31, 2025 % of units | 81% | 138 | CY2025 | FDD p.50 |
| Share of U.S. Franchised Businesses with 2025 Gross Revenue of $500,000 or less 8 of 138 U.S. outlets. A further 10 (7%) reported $500,001–$750,000 and 8 (6%) reported $750,001–$1,000,000. | All 138 reporting U.S. Franchised Businesses open on Dec 31, 2025 % of units | 6% | 138 | CY2025 | FDD p.50 |
| Total 2025 Gross Revenue — all U.S. Franchised Businesses operating at least one day in 2025 Part III does not restate an outlet count for this total; its population ('operating at least one day in 2025') differs slightly from the 138 outlets counted in Parts I and II, so no per-outlet average has been computed from it here. | All U.S. Franchised Businesses Total | $588,680,112 | n/s | CY2025 | FDD p.50 |
| System-wide 2025 Gross Revenue — U.S., Canada and Australia combined Canada contributed $52,240,890 and Australia $19,906,606, converted at 2025 average exchange rates of 0.7156 and 0.6448. Prior years: $537,460,900 (2024) and $525,190,289 (2023), a stated growth of 23.0% in 2025, 2.3% in 2024 and -0.6% in 2023. The Canadian and Australian outlets are franchised by separate affiliated franchisors. | All Franchised Businesses in the U.S., Canada and Australia Total | $660,827,609 | n/s | CY2025 | FDD p.51 |
System health (Item 20)
Outlets, openings, exits and transfers by fiscal year · U.S. onlyView detailed Item 20 tables and source notes
| Fiscal year | Start | Opened | Terminated | Not renewed | Reacquired | Ceased — other | End | Transfers | Company-owned (end) |
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| 2023 | 133 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 133 | 14 | 16 |
| 2024 | 133 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 104 | 3 | 42 |
| 2025 | 104 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 92 | 16 | 46 |
Disclosed 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document — 1-800-GOT-JUNK? LLC, Item 20, Tables 1–3 (PDF p. 52). Counts are U.S. outlets only and are stated as of fiscal years ended 12/31. Franchised outlets fell from 133 at the start of 2023 to 92 at the end of 2025, a net loss of 41, while company-owned outlets rose from 8 to 46. Item 20 records zero terminations, zero non-renewals and zero other closures of franchised outlets in all three years; every franchised outlet that left the franchised count was reacquired by the franchisor (7 in 2023, 30 in 2024, 15 in 2025), and a footnote states all company-owned outlets are owned 100% by affiliate 604816 LLC (DBA). Only 11 franchised outlets opened over the three years. Table No. 3 reports 15 franchised outlets reacquired in 2025 while Table No. 4 reports 14 reacquired from franchisees that year, a one-outlet difference the document does not explain; the 2023 and 2024 figures agree. Table No. 4 also shows 11 company-owned outlets closed in 2025, which its footnotes attribute mainly to mergers of acquired locations into existing DBA locations rather than to a location ceasing service. Transfers to new owners other than the franchisor totalled 14, 3 and 16 across the three years. All Item 20 tables foot to their printed totals.
Source data notes (9) — inconsistencies found in the FDD itself during verification
Our verification re-reads every table. Where the FDD's own printed tables disagree, we document the discrepancy rather than silently "fixing" it. Classes: B = arithmetic error in the source's derived column; C = the printed tables genuinely disagree; D = a legitimate definitional difference (e.g., transfers netted, explained by a footnote); E = unresolved ambiguity. Figures a material C/E issue puts in doubt are excluded from our derived metrics, scores and rankings.
- [C/minor] Table 3 vs Table 4 2025: Table 3 TOTAL row reports 15 outlets 'Reacquired by Franchisor' in FY2025 ('Total 2025 104 3 0 0 15 0 92', PDF p.57), while Table 4's TOTAL row reports only 14 'Outlets Reacquired from Franchisees' ('Total 2025 42 1 14 11 0 46', PDF p.59). The one-unit gap traces to Arizona: Table 3 shows Arizona 2025 start 1, opened 0, reacquired 1, end 0 (PDF p.54), whereas Table 4 shows Arizona 2025 start 1, opened 1, reacquired 0, end 2 (PDF p.57). Covers Pass A's observation and Pass B's Arizona trace, which agree. — Same outlet, labelled two ways: the company-owned table books the Arizona reacquisition as a newly 'Opened' company location. Table 3's 15 is corroborated twice over — its state rows sum to 15 (AZ 1, CA 2, HI 1, ID 1, LA 2, MI 2, MN 2, NY 2, NC 1, SC 1) and Table 1's franchised line foots at 104 + 3 - 15 = 92 — and Table 4's own state rows sum to its printed 14, with its end-of-year 46 corroborated by Table 1 and by Item 19's 46 DBA franchisees. Use 15 reacquisitions and 3 franchised openings for FY2025, and treat FY2025 company-owned openings as 0 rather than 1. Severity is minor, not material: although one unit is about 1.0% of the 104 start-of-year franchised outlets, no TOTAL the site uses is in doubt — the discrepancy is a classification split inside Table 4 and every start/end figure
- [C/minor] Table 2 vs Table 3 2024: The FDD treats affiliate acquisitions inconsistently between years. In FY2025, 15 outlets appear both as 'Reacquired by Franchisor' in Table 3 and inside Table 2's 16 'Transfers of Outlets From Franchisees to New Owners (Other than the Franchisor)' (PDF pp.53, 57). In FY2024, Table 3 records 30 reacquisitions (PDF p.57) — footnoted in Table 4 as Southwind and Flywheel locations 'transferred to our affiliate, DBA' (PDF p.59) — yet Table 2's FY2024 total is only 3 ('Total 2024 3', PDF p.53). — The 2024 acquisitions by the DBA/Flywheel affiliate were omitted from the transfer table while the economically identical 2025 acquisitions were included, so the Table 2 series (14 / 3 / 16) is not comparable year to year and cannot be read as a franchisee-to-franchisee transfer trend. Unit counts are unaffected: Tables 1, 3 and 4 all foot and agree, so the printed TOTALs stay usable and the severity is minor. Use Table 3's reacquisition column, not Table 2, for the affiliate roll-up.
- [D/minor] Table 2 vs Table 3 2025: Pass B's double-counting observation: FY2025 shows 16 transfers 'to New Owners (Other than the Franchisor)' in Table 2 alongside 15 outlets 'Reacquired by Franchisor' in Table 3, and the state detail overlaps almost exactly (AZ, CA x2, HI, ID, LA x2, MI x2, MN x2, NY x2, NC, SC). — Definitional, not an error: the acquirer is the affiliate DBA, so the same acquisitions legitimately fall inside Table 2's caption (a new owner other than the franchisor) while Table 3 books them as reacquisitions under the Table 1/4 footnote that treats affiliate-owned units as company-owned. Netting the state lists, Table 2's 16 = the 15 reacquisitions + one genuine franchisee-to-franchisee transfer in New Jersey. Do not add 16 transfers to 15 reacquisitions; FY2025 arm's-length transfers are 1.
- [D/minor] Table 1 and Table 4 2025: The footnotes to Tables 1 and 4 both read 'all locations are owned 100% by our affiliate, 604816 LLC (DBA) and its subsidiaries' (PDF pp.52, 59), so the 46 'company-owned' outlets are affiliate-owned units operated under franchise agreements, and Item 19 counts the same 46 as 'DBA franchisees' (PDF p.45). — A table-definition difference the FDD's own footnote explains; the printed totals are correct as printed. Reading the 46 as corporate stores run by the franchisor would misstate the system — present them as affiliate-operated franchises, and note that franchised units are 92 on Item 20's definition but 138 on Item 19's.
- [D/minor] Table 3 2025: Terminations, non-renewals and 'ceased operations - other' are zero in every state and every year 2023-2025; the entire 41-outlet decline in the franchised base (133 to 92) is recorded in the 'Reacquired by Franchisor' column, against only 11 franchised openings in three years (7, 1, 3). — No arithmetic or extraction defect — the columns are internally consistent and match Item 1's account of Flywheel and DBA buying out long-term franchise partners. Attrition here is consolidation into an affiliate rather than franchisee failure, but the derived attrition rate is still driven entirely by reacquisitions and should be labelled as such.
- [D/minor] Table 4 2025: Table 4 records 11 company-owned closures in FY2025 against 42 outlets at the start of the year; the footnote marked *** states 'these locations merged with an already existing location operated by DBA' (PDF p.59). — The footnote explains the closures as mergers of acquired locations into existing DBA operations, so the count is a territory consolidation rather than 11 economic failures. The state rows sum to the printed 11 and Table 4 foots (42 + 1 + 14 - 11 = 46), so the total stands; flag the closures as mergers wherever a closure rate is shown.
- [D/minor] Table 5 2025: Table 5 shows 0 agreements signed but not open, 1 projected new franchisee (Minnesota) and 0-2 projected company-owned locations for the next fiscal year (PDF p.60), against 15 reacquisitions in FY2025. — No discrepancy — the columns sum to the printed totals of 0, 1 and 0-2 and are corroborated by Item 5, 'In the year ended December 31, 2025, we sold three franchises to new and existing franchisees'. The pipeline is a near standstill and the U.S. franchised base is contracting, which any growth metric should reflect.
- [D/minor] Tables 1-5 2025: Pass B's footing and cross-table checks: Table 3 TOTAL rows foot (133+7-7=133, 133+1-30=104, 104+3-15=92), Table 4 TOTAL rows foot (8+1+7-0=16, 16+0+30-4=42, 42+1+14-11=46), Table 2 state rows sum to the printed 14, 3 and 16, Table 5 columns sum to 0 and 1, Table 1's franchised and company-owned lines match Tables 3 and 4 with each year's start equal to the prior year's end, and Table 1's Total Outlets equals franchised plus company-owned in every cell (141/149, 149/146, 146/138). — Re-verified independently in this pass; no defect. The only arithmetic that does not tie across tables is the FY2025 reacquisition count handled in the first issue above. Table 1 and Table 3 agree on the franchised TOTAL rows the site uses, so those totals are corroborated.
- [D/minor] Item 20 (all tables) 2025: Item 20 covers U.S. outlets only and does not print separate U.S. and international tables, so the TOTAL rows are the U.S. TOTAL rows. Non-U.S. outlets appear only in Item 1 (21 Canadian franchisees under Rubbish Boys and 6 Australian under GJ AUS as of 12/31/2025) and in Item 19 Parts II and III. — No defect; confirms that the Table 1/3/4 TOTAL rows are the right figures to use and that Item 19's Canada and Australia columns must not be folded into U.S. unit counts.
Company-owned outlets (Table 4)
| Year | Start | Opened | Reacquired from franchisee | Closed | Sold to franchisee | End |
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| 2023 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| 2024 | 16 | 0 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 42 |
| 2025 | 42 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 46 |
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Ownership and operations
Items 11, 12, 15, 17Owner-operator required Disclosed
- Source
- 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document — 1-800-GOT-JUNK? LLC
- Document
- FDD 2026, issued 2026-04-30
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- Item 15
- Page
- PDF p. 39
- Obtained
- Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration Search, file 641801
The Principal Operator must devote his or her full time, attention and effort to the Franchised Business.
The business must be under the direct supervision at all times of a Principal Operator who holds a minimum beneficial ownership share, generally 20% (the franchisor may require a different amount before the agreement is signed). The Principal Operator must devote full time, attention and effort to the business, must complete initial training, and cannot be changed or replaced without the franchisor's prior written consent. During the term, the franchisee's owners are barred from competing with or holding a financial interest in any competitive business.
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| Owner involvement (Item 15) | Owner-operator required Disclosed
The business must be under the direct supervision at all times of a Principal Operator who holds a minimum beneficial ownership share, generally 20% (the franchisor may require a different amount before the agreement is signed). The Principal Operator must devote full time, attention and effort to the business, must complete initial training, and cannot be changed or replaced without the franchisor's prior written consent. During the term, the franchisee's owners are barred from competing with or holding a financial interest in any competitive business. The business must be under the direct supervision at all times of a Principal Operator who holds a minimum beneficial ownership share, generally 20% (the franchisor may require a different amount before the agreement is signed). The Principal Operator must devote full time, attention and effort to the business, must complete initial training, and cannot be changed or replaced without the franchisor's prior written consent. During the term, the franchisee's owners are barred from competing with or holding a financial interest in any competitive business. |
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| Initial training | Initial training runs five business days, roughly 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, at the franchisor's offices in Vancouver, British Columbia (or another location it determines). The published programme lists about 18 classroom modules covering marketing, recruitment, daily operations, people and culture, business planning, fleet, finance and QuickBooks, the Sales Center, sales engagement, brand and customer experience, plus two four-hour on-site modules (daily operations and truck day). Separately, in-field shadowing at an existing franchise — Truck Team Member, Field Operations Manager and Franchise Partner roles — is required before opening and generally takes another five business days, typically in the Nashville or Las Vegas area. The Principal Operator must attend and pass; the franchisor may also require other directors, officers or shareholders to attend. There is no tuition charge for those attendees, but the franchisee pays travel and living costs, estimated in Item 7 at $2,000 to $7,500. Training must be completed at least two weeks before opening, and a field visit revisits training within 180 days of launch. Disclosed
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| Multi-unit / development options | Every franchise is inherently multi-territory: the smallest territory offered is eight subterritories and the Item 7 table runs to twelve, with each additional subterritory costing $8,125. Item 12 sets minimum criteria for buying more: the franchisee must submit annual financial statements and a current personal net worth statement, hold three to six months of operating capital beyond the additional fees, be in good standing and full compliance including minimum performance standards, and have operated at least six months before requesting extra subterritories or a year before acquiring a whole new Franchised Business. Approval remains at the franchisor's sole discretion, and it may require the franchisee to terminate existing agreements and sign its then-current form covering all subterritories, on materially different terms. Item 5 reports that in 2025 existing franchisees paid $8,125 to $38,000 to expand territories. No formal area development agreement is described. Disclosed
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| Territory (Item 12) | The franchisee receives a protected but not exclusive Territory, assembled before signing from subterritories of 62,500 to 75,000 people each based on U.S. Census data, with a minimum of eight subterritories. While the franchisee is in full compliance, the franchisor will not operate or license another 1-800-GOT-JUNK? business in the Territory, but it expressly reserves the right to serve National Account Customers — multi-location customers — inside the Territory itself, through an affiliate, a subcontractor or another franchisee. The franchisee may be offered such work at a payment the franchisor sets and is treated as refusing if it does not accept within one business day. A local commercial customer can be reclassified as a National Account Customer at the franchisor's discretion. The franchisor also reserves the right to sell similar services under other brands anywhere, including inside the Territory, and to acquire or merge with competing chains. If the franchisee is in default, the franchisor may shrink the Territory, remove its protection, or both. Soliciting or serving customers outside the Territory is prohibited. Disclosed
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| Initial term | 5 years Disclosed
Five years, with three further five-year renewal terms available; the franchisor may offer additional renewals to qualified franchisees at its discretion. |
| Renewal | Three additional five-year terms are available if the franchisee is in full compliance and has not committed stated defaults. Conditions are written notice, meeting the franchisor's then-current requirements for franchisees, signing the current form of franchise agreement — which may differ materially from the existing one — paying the $7,500 renewal fee, and upgrading vehicles. The Minimum Royalty rises by at least 10% on renewal. Disclosed
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| Staffing | Item 7 states a minimum of two trucks is required at start-up, with additional trucks added on a schedule agreed with the franchisor for larger territories, and that the franchisee needs a minimum of 300 to 400 square feet of space from which to operate. The FDD does not state a required headcount or operating hours for the Franchised Business. Disclosed
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Risk and legal observations
Items 3, 4, 8, 15, 17 — summarized neutrallyLitigation: None disclosed Disclosed · Bankruptcy: None disclosed Disclosed
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| Litigation (Item 3) | None disclosed Disclosed Item 3 states that no litigation is required to be disclosed. No pending or concluded matters involving the franchisor or its management are listed. |
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| Bankruptcy (Item 4) | None disclosed Disclosed Item 4 states that no bankruptcy information is required to be disclosed. |
| Personal guaranty | Required Disclosed
All of the franchisee's directors, officers, shareholders, partners or members must personally guarantee every obligation under the Franchise Agreement, including the confidentiality and non-competition covenants, on the franchisor's form of Guarantee. Spouses must sign a Consent to the Guarantee. The cover page flags spousal liability as a state-required special risk, noting the guarantee places marital and personal assets at risk. All owners must also personally guarantee any initial franchise fees paid in instalments (Item 10). |
| Non-compete | During the term, the franchisee and its owners may not compete directly or indirectly with the System or any system owned by the franchisor or its affiliates, and may not hold a financial interest in any competitive business. After expiration or termination, the same restriction applies for 18 months at the former Franchised Location, anywhere in the former Territory, in another System franchisee's territory, or in the metropolitan area containing the former Territory — subject to state law. The franchisee must also, within 60 days of termination, either sell its dump-body truck boxes to another System franchisee or destroy them. Disclosed
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| Transfer restrictions | Any direct or indirect transfer of the agreement, the business or an ownership interest requires the franchisor's written approval, which it may withhold in its sole discretion subject to state law. Conditions it may impose include the transferee meeting current franchisee requirements and not being involved in a similar business, the transferee holding no more than 5% of the system's existing territories, approval of the sale advertisement, payment of transfer and administration fees, the transferee signing the then-current franchise agreement on possibly materially different terms, completion of training, signed releases, all agreements in good standing, and assignment of the premises lease and vehicle lease plus a security agreement. The franchisor holds a right of first refusal to buy any interest offered for sale on the same terms as the third-party offer. The transfer fee is $10,000, with $2,500 due when the franchisee announces an intention to sell. On death or permanent disability the estate has six months to assign to a qualified person. Disclosed
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| Termination / non-renewal | The franchisee may terminate only as applicable law allows; Item 17 lists no contractual right of termination for the franchisee. The franchisor may terminate on written notice, in some cases after a cure period: 15 days for a payment default and 30 days for other breaches or loss of good standing. A long list of defaults cannot be cured at all, including three or more curable defaults in any 12 months, failing to open by the scheduled date, closing for five business days in any 30-day period without consent, losing good standing under a vehicle lease, insolvency or bankruptcy, unauthorised assignment, and the Principal Operator failing to complete initial training. On termination for franchisee default, liquidated damages equal 100% of the royalties and 30% of the Sales, Marketing and Technology Fees that would have been payable for the rest of the term, based on the average of the prior 12 months. On termination or expiry the franchisee must cease operating, settle accounts, transfer telephone numbers, stop using the marks and observe the non-compete; the franchisor may buy some or all of the business assets at fair market value. Disclosed
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| Supplier restrictions (Item 8) | All customer orders and inquiries must be placed and processed through the franchisor's designated Sales Center and CRM system, of which the franchisor is the only approved supplier. Trucks and dump bodies must come from a designated supplier, and signage, uniforms, marketing materials, tools, equipment, card processing services, communications equipment, computers and software must be bought or leased from the franchisor, approved suppliers, or to its specifications. Insurance types and limits are specified and can change during the term. The franchisor says it is not currently an approved supplier of any item, and received no revenue from franchisee purchases in the year ended Dec 31, 2025; its parent Rubbish Boys received about $35,179,782 that year from fees paid by franchisees for required purchases and leases, and suppliers paid the franchisor $77,629 in annual-conference sponsorships. It estimates required or specified purchases at 10–30% of establishment costs and 40–50% of ongoing costs if vehicles are leased, or 70–90% and 50–60% if vehicles are purchased. There are no purchasing cooperatives, and the franchisor reserves the right to designate itself or an affiliate as a supplier for any item in future. Disclosed
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| Dispute resolution | Item 17 states that, subject to any limits imposed by the franchisee's state law, all claims must be resolved by arbitration in King County, Washington, with litigation also in King County, Washington; the franchisor keeps the right to seek injunctions and emergency relief. Delaware law governs construction and interpretation of the agreement, subject to applicable state law. The cover page describes the same provisions as requiring mediation only in Vancouver, British Columbia and litigation only in Seattle, Washington, and flags out-of-state dispute resolution as a state-required special risk. Disclosed
The cover page's special-risk wording and the Item 17 table describe the forum differently (mediation in Vancouver and litigation in Seattle, versus arbitration and litigation in King County, Washington). Both are recorded as disclosed; the franchise agreement itself would settle which controls. |
- A Minimum Royalty is payable for each subterritory each calendar year regardless of sales, rising from $1,200 in the first year to $4,000 in the fifth and by at least 10% on renewal; the cover page lists mandatory minimum payments as a state-required special risk.
- The cover page states that the franchisor's financial condition, as reflected in its Item 21 financial statements, calls into question its ability to provide services and support to franchisees.
- Continuing fees total 16% of Gross Revenue (8% royalty plus 8% Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee), with a further 8% of Gross Revenue required to be spent on local advertising and up to 5% possible for a branding cooperative.
- Franchised outlets fell from 133 at the start of 2023 to 92 at the end of 2025 while affiliate-owned outlets rose from 8 to 46; Item 20 records the entire decline as reacquisitions by the franchisor rather than terminations or closures.
- Item 20 states that in some instances current or former franchisees signed provisions restricting their ability to speak openly about their experience with the franchisor.
- The franchisee does not receive an exclusive territory and the franchisor may serve National Account Customers inside it; territorial protection can be reduced or removed if the franchisee is in default.
- Item 6 allows the franchisor to require payments for future products and services it designates, priced at cost plus a markup it does not expect to exceed 35%, and to designate itself or its affiliates as the supplier.
- The Sales Center and CRM system that take all customer orders are supplied solely by the franchisor and its parent, so the franchisee does not control its own order intake.
Summaries are neutral paraphrases of the cited document and are not legal advice. Read the full Items in the current FDD and consult a franchise attorney.
Illustrative unit economics
Not disclosedNo model is offered for 1-800-GOT-JUNK? because no annual average unit sales disclosed in Item 19. We do not manufacture estimates where the disclosure does not support them.
Sources and provenance
Primary source: 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document — 1-800-GOT-JUNK? LLC · issued 2026-04-30. Find the FDD at Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration Search. We cite source pages and do not redistribute PDFs.
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| Document | Obtained from | Dates | Status |
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| 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document — 1-800-GOT-JUNK? LLC Registry file 641801 · 273 pages Cover page reads 'Issuance Date: April 30, 2026' and the running footer reads 'Version Date: 4/30/26'. Wisconsin registration effective 5/22/2026, status Registered; this is the newest document available in that registry for the brand. | Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration Search | Issued 2026-04-30 Retrieved 2026-08-29 | Newest available at retrieval |
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Fields flagged as uncertain (5)
- item19.headline_auv — Item 19 discloses no average across all 138 U.S. outlets; only tenure cohorts and a separate affiliate table, so the field is left null rather than computed.
- item19.headline_median — same reason; medians are per cohort only.
- item19.population_share_of_system — the Item 19 population of 138 includes the 46 outlets Item 20 counts as company-owned, so a share of the 92 franchised outlets would exceed 100% and is not meaningful.
- investment.franchise_fee_low / franchise_fee_high — recorded as the total mandatory payment to the franchisor at signing ($90,000–$122,500 per the cover page): the initial franchise fee of $65,000–$97,500 plus the $25,000 Initial Marketing Expense. A reader looking only for the line labelled 'Initial Franchise Fee' would see $65,000–$97,500.
- fees.technology — no stand-alone recurring technology fee exists; technology is funded from the combined 8% Sales, Marketing and Technology Fee recorded under ad_fund.
Extraction notes (8)
- Item 9 was not split into its own text file for this document; it appears at the end of item_08.txt and was reviewed there.
- The Item 7 line items foot exactly to the printed TOTAL row of $182,300 and $303,500.
- Item 20 Table No. 3 reports 15 franchised outlets reacquired by the franchisor in 2025 while Table No. 4 reports 14 reacquired from franchisees in the same year; 2023 and 2024 agree at 7 and 30. The document does not explain the one-outlet difference.
- Item 20 classifies the 46 outlets owned by affiliate 604816 LLC (DBA) as company-owned, while Item 19 counts the same outlets among the 138 U.S. Franchised Businesses because they operate under franchise agreements. Unit counts here follow Item 20.
- An outlet in these tables is a Franchised Business covering a territory of at least eight subterritories, not a single truck or storefront, so per-outlet revenue is not comparable with brands that count individual sites.
- Item 19 Parts II and III combine U.S. results with Canadian and Australian results from separate affiliated franchisors at annual average exchange rates; only the U.S. figures are treated as this franchisor's system in the metrics above.
- No minimum liquidity or net-worth requirement is stated anywhere in the reviewed cover pages or Items 1, 5, 7, 11, 12 or 15.
- The cover page and Item 17 describe the dispute-resolution forum differently; both descriptions are recorded in risk.dispute_resolution.
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