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ECHO Suites franchise — is it worth it?
Medium risk Growing network
ECHO Suites Extended Stay by Wyndham is a new hotel franchise with 18 outlets, experiencing rapid growth with 13 net new locations last year.
Everything below is free, read straight off ECHO Suites's registered filing. The $99 report is the part a single FDD can't give you: the fee and churn detail, and where every number lands against travel & hospitality peers.
The numbers above tell you what ECHO Suites discloses. The report tells you whether that's good:
- What the missing Item 19 means here — how many travel & hospitality franchisors do disclose, so you know whether this silence is ordinary or not.
- Where every number ranks — investment, fees, royalty, earnings and churn against travel & hospitality median and quartile. This is the part no single FDD, and no AI reading one, can produce.
- What's driving the medium risk read — the specific figures behind it, not the label.
- The litigation, split properly — each case, and which ones franchisees brought against the franchisor rather than the reverse.
- The questions to ask before you sign — drawn from what ECHO Suites's own filing leaves open, in the words to use on the call.
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Compare 3 brands — $249 See a sample reportFigures above are as disclosed in ECHO Suites's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640639 — check it yourself. The Item 19 figures, where each number ranks against peers, and the litigation & churn detail are in the full report.
ECHO Suites franchise profit — what the FDD discloses
Plainly: ECHO Suites does not disclose franchise profit or revenue. Its most recent FDD makes no Item 19 financial performance representation, so there is no franchisor-backed earnings figure for ECHO Suites — any number quoted elsewhere is an estimate, not a disclosure. The absence is itself worth weighing (many travel & hospitality franchisors do disclose), and the full report reads the risk signals ECHO Suites's FDD does contain — fees, litigation, and outlet churn — against peers. For brands that put earnings on paper, see Hotel, travel & hospitality franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings.
ECHO Suites lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)
We do not publish a litigation answer for ECHO Suites. Item 3 could not be read reliably from this particular filing, and a claim that a company has no legal history is not one to make on a failed parse — so we say we do not know instead. Item 3 of the FDD itself is the place to check; the methodology page explains what we do and do not machine-read.
ECHO Suites closures & failure rate
Before you sign, ECHO Suites 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 ECHO Suites's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a travel & hospitality 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. ECHO Suites's latest tables show a growing franchised network. The actual closure and termination counts, and how ECHO Suites's churn ranks against travel & hospitality peers, are in the full report.
What the fee, litigation and churn signals imply, every number ranked against travel & hospitality peers, and the litigation and churn detail — delivered instantly, yours to keep.
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Who owns ECHO Suites?
ECHO Suites's franchise is offered by WHR Extended Stay, 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.
Other travel & hospitality franchises
Anyone weighing ECHO Suites 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.
ECHO Suites franchise — frequently asked
Who owns ECHO Suites — who is the franchisor?
ECHO Suites's most recently filed FDD (2026) names WHR Extended Stay, LLC as the franchisor — the entity you would actually sign the franchise agreement with, as stated on the disclosure document itself. A registry filing names the franchisor, not necessarily its ultimate parent company.
How much does a ECHO Suites franchise cost?
ECHO Suites's most recently filed FDD (Item 7) puts the total estimated initial investment at a range disclosed in Item 7 and a 5% royalty. That price is the franchisor's own estimate of what it takes to open, not a quote. The full report breaks down every fee line and benchmarks it against travel & hospitality peers.
How much profit does a ECHO Suites franchise make?
ECHO Suites makes no Item 19 financial performance representation, so there is no franchisor-disclosed revenue or profit figure for ECHO Suites at all — and profit would never be disclosed even where earnings are, because it depends on your rent, labor and how you operate. Any profit figure quoted elsewhere is an estimate, not a disclosure.
Does ECHO Suites disclose financial performance (Item 19)?
No — ECHO Suites's most recent FDD makes no Item 19 financial performance representation. Its absence is worth weighing; the report focuses on the verifiable risk signals instead.
Are there lawsuits against ECHO Suites?
We do not publish a litigation answer for ECHO Suites: Item 3 could not be read reliably from this filing, and we would rather say so than assert a clean record we have not verified. Item 3 of the FDD itself is the place to check.
Is ECHO Suites a good franchise to buy?
Nobody can answer that from ECHO Suites's numbers alone — it comes down to how its investment, earnings, litigation and franchisee churn stack up against travel & hospitality peers, which is what the full report is for. Our read on this filing is medium risk, stated free above. For $99 you get the figures driving that read, the actual Item 19 earnings (absent from this FDD — and how unusual that is for the category), where every figure ranks against peers, and the specific questions to ask the franchisor before you sign.
A ECHO Suites franchise is a six-figure decision you make once, on a ten-year agreement, usually with a personal guarantee behind it. For $99 you get an independent read of the document that decides it: what the absent Item 19 earnings imply, and how unusual that absence is for the category, every figure ranked against travel & hospitality peers, the litigation split into franchisee and corporate matters, the churn behind the outlet count — and the questions to put to the franchisor before you sign. If it tells you nothing new, reply within 14 days and we'll refund it.
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