Guide · Franchise
Visiting Angels' 2026 FDD: franchise fee $51,950–$89,950, scaled by territory population; total initial investment $125,460–$171,150; royalty 3–3.5% of gross revenue; advertising fund 2–2.5% of gross. Of the three brands on our truth table, Visiting Angels' percentages are the ones published in the sources we read — which is why the 10-year example on the franchise truth page runs on them.
Bigger territory, bigger fee — you are buying population, not clients. What the fee cannot buy is a license outcome: your state's verdict, timeline and gates apply unchanged, and a territory that overlaps a need-test county carries that gate inside the purchase.
Ask for the current FDD, then read Item 7 against Item 19 (financial performance representations — most franchisors publish none, which is itself information). Any earnings figure quoted verbally that is not in Item 19 is marketing, and the FTC's franchise rule exists precisely because of that sentence.
Guides are general; verdicts are specific. The license checker applies your state's rules to your service mix, and the cost calculator prices your opening from the same dataset this guide cites.
The free checkers give you the verdict and the number. The Kit gives you the working papers: your state's application packet walked through in filing order, the policies-and-procedures binder spec (what your binder must contain — never a boilerplate binder), the administrator self-audit, the insurance & bond spec sheet, the Medicaid gate map, the franchise-vs-independent 10-year worksheets, and the payroll-runway planner.
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