Outdoor Lighting Perspectives
Home Services · Lawn Care & Landscaping
- Active units
- 141
- Avg unit volume
- $5k
- Royalty
- 7.0%
Franchised, year-end 2025
Item 19 cohort year 2025
of weekly Net Sales
About Outdoor Lighting Perspectives
The company offers specialized services including landscape, architectural, holiday, and hospitality lighting for homeowners, businesses, and venues. Its service offerings extend to permanent roofline lighting, festive string lights, and outdoor audio systems. The franchise model is designed as a home-based or mobile business that operates without a retail storefront. Owners provide ongoing support to clients through maintenance programs and seasonal lighting refreshes.
Key terms
- Franchise fee
$60k
- Add-On Discount (existing related home services business)
$10,000 discount per Territory if qualification criteria are met (operated ≥2 years, ≥$500,000 prior-year revenue, add OLP in separate entity).
- Multi-Territory Discount
If two contiguous Territories are licensed at the same time: second Territory fee reduced to $30,000 (total $89,500). Each additional contiguous Territory: $30,000. May allow installment payments for multi-territory purchases.
- Existing Franchisee Additional Standard Territory Discount
20% off the then-current franchise fee for one additional Standard Territory if conditions are met and not broker-facilitated.
- Existing Franchisee Additional Concept Discount
20% off the then-current franchise fee of an affiliated Empower Brand; limited to one affiliated brand territory; conditions apply.
- Employee Discount Program
5% off per year of service over two years (max 50% off the applicable initial franchise fee).
- Brand fund
1.5% of Net Sales
- Area Development Rights
$0
- Veteran discount
15.0% off franchise fee — VetFran: 15% discount on the applicable Initial Franchise Fee for one Territory; may be used only once.
Brand Percentile Rankings
Rankings compare brands in the same operating year. Fee and investment figures come from the FDD (2026 filing); filings on file: 2025, 2026.
Growth
- Total locations—
Franchised units open at year-end
- New openings—
Gross new units opened during the calendar year
- 1-year unit growth rate—
Net unit growth versus prior year
- 3-year unit CAGR—
Compound annual growth rate of unit count over the trailing 3 years
- Unit growth ratio—
Cumulative opens / closures through year-end
Unit economics
- Annual unit volume (Median)$5k
Item 19 cohort year 2025
- Annual unit volume (25th percentile)—
Per FDD Item 19 disclosure
- Annual unit volume (75th percentile)—
Per FDD Item 19 disclosure
- 1-year Median AUV growth rate-99.4%
Year-over-year change in median AUV
- Store-level EBITDA Margin—
Median unit-level EBITDA / AUV
Investment profile
- Estimated initial investment$204k
Midpoint of estimated initial investment range
↓ Lower is better - Time to open—
Midpoint of average time from agreement to opening
- Royalty rate7.0%
Percent of net sales paid to the franchisor
↓ Lower is better - Sales-to-investment ratio0.0×
Median AUV / estimated initial investment midpoint
- Cash-on-cash returns—
Median unit-level EBITDA / estimated initial investment midpoint. Steady-state estimate; year 1 returns will be lower as the unit ramps to median volumes.
Franchisee healthLocked
- Unit closure ratio
- Transfer vs. closure ratio
- Percent multi-unit franchisees
- Litigation rate
- EBITDA multiple on sales & transfers
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Sources
Financial and operating figures are sourced from the brand's Franchise Disclosure Documents. Brand percentile rankings are based on comparisons to other brands that include the same metrics in their Franchise Disclosure Documents.