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Lime Painting franchise — is it worth it?

Low risk Growing network Item 19 disclosed

Lime Painting offers a painting and restoration franchise with an initial investment ranging from $133,250 to $277,075.

Everything below is free, read straight off Lime Painting's registered filing, with where the numbers land against other peers. Weighing Lime Painting against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Lime Painting's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 641726 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Lime Painting franchise make?

Lime Painting is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure is $680,354 in average unit revenue — read it alongside what Item 19 says about which units it covers (often only mature or top-performing locations). See every other brand that discloses earnings in the Other franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Lime Painting franchise profit vs. revenue

Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come Lime Painting's 7% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Lime Painting franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Lime Painting franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $680,354 of revenue, a 7% royalty alone is about $47,625 a year before any other cost.

Lime Painting lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Lime Painting's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) discloses no litigation in Item 3. That is a real signal rather than a gap: the FTC Franchise Rule requires a franchisor to disclose material litigation involving itself, its predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 in a current filing means there was nothing it was required to report. It is worth reading alongside the churn numbers — a system can have a clean Item 3 and still be losing franchisees, which is what Item 20 shows.

Lime Painting closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Lime Painting will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what Lime Painting's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a other of this kind.

The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. Lime Painting's latest tables show a growing franchised network. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 9.5%. Net franchised outlets moved +15 to 78 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Lime Painting?

Lime Painting's franchise is offered by LIME Franchise Systems, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at WI DFI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Franchises at a similar investment level at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Lime Painting is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.

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