Why Franchisees Choose Lodgewick ADU Builders
We’re the ADU company of the Kingswell family, and we’ve been building small homes on larger properties since 2010. If you’re a contractor, project manager, or builder who’s tired of chasing leads and guessing at pricing models, a Lodgewick franchise gives you a name homeowners already trust, a playbook that actually works, and a guarantee that keeps them calling back. Our mission is simple: room to grow, right on your lot. That applies to homeowners, and it applies to you.
The Lodgewick ADU Builders Advantage
Brand Recognition That Opens Doors
Homeowners know the Kingswell name. When you operate as Lodgewick ADU Builders, you’re not starting from zero trust in a market saturated with fly-by-night contractors. The 365-Day Done Right Promise, our written guarantee, and our live-answer call center give homeowners confidence before you ever set foot on their property. That recognition translates to shorter sales cycles and higher close rates on ADU consultations, garage conversions, and home additions.
Lead Generation Built In
We don’t hand you a territory and wish you luck. Our centralized marketing engine generates qualified homeowner inquiries and routes them to your local operation. You get leads from people who already know they’ll receive a written price before any work starts and a real arrival window, not a 8 AM to 6 PM guessing game. That pre-qualification means less time chasing, more time building.
The Operational Playbook, Tested Since 2010
There’s a right way to price an Abodu unit versus a Tuff Shed conversion versus a custom garage build-out, and we’ve documented it. Our franchisees receive the full Kingswell operational system: estimating templates, permitting workflows, vendor coordination protocols, and the five values of The Kingswell Way. Say the price before the work. Show up in the window we gave. Leave the place cleaner than we found it. Put the guarantee in writing. Come back if it fails. These aren’t posters on a wall. They’re the reason our callback rate stays low and our referral rate stays high.
Vendor Pricing You Can’t Get Alone
We’ve spent fifteen years building relationships with the leading ADU brands and materials suppliers: Abodu, Cover, Dvele, Mighty Buildings, Boxabl, Plant Prefab, Tuff Shed, and James Hardie. As a Lodgewick franchisee, you access pre-negotiated pricing and priority scheduling that an independent operator simply cannot match. When supply chains tighten or a homeowner needs a specific unit delivered on a specific date, those relationships matter.
Technology That Keeps You Organized
Our field management platform connects pricing, scheduling, job-site photos, guarantee documentation, and customer communication in one system. No more estimates written on napkins or guarantees that exist only in a verbal promise. Every written price, every arrival window, every 365-Day Done Right Promise is logged and trackable. You run a tighter business, and homeowners see the professionalism in every interaction.
Ongoing Coaching From People Who’ve Built ADUs
Your support team includes franchise coaches who have personally managed ADU projects, navigated local permitting, and handled the exact challenges you’ll face. This isn’t theoretical advice from a corporate office disconnected from job sites. When you’re stuck on a foundation issue with a Plant Prefab unit or need help explaining the price range to a hesitant homeowner, you talk to someone who’s been there.
Independent vs. Franchised
Going independent in the ADU space means building everything yourself: the brand, the lead flow, the vendor relationships, the pricing confidence, the guarantee language, the technology stack. It can work. Some builders make it work. But most spend their first two years figuring out what we already know, and many never get past the feast-or-famine cycle of referral-only work.
With Lodgewick ADU Builders, you keep the independence that matters. Each location is independently owned and operated. You hire your own team, set your own schedule, and build your own reputation in your community. What you gain is the infrastructure that lets you focus on building instead of scrambling. The Kingswell Guarantee is not a corporate mandate handed down from afar. It’s a commitment you make to your neighbors, backed by systems that make keeping that commitment straightforward and profitable.
The honest trade-off: you pay a franchise fee and ongoing royalties. In return, you get a call-answering system that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with a live person every time, not a voicemail loop. You get background-checked, uniformed technician standards that protect your reputation. You get written pricing protocols that prevent the awkward conversation where a homeowner claims you changed the number. You get the 365-Day Done Right Promise, a written guarantee that creates loyal customers who refer their friends. For most builders, that exchange pays for itself in the first year through higher close rates and lower customer-acquisition costs.
We don’t pretend this path fits everyone. If you want total autonomy with no structure, no shared systems, and no brand standards, independent is your route. If you want to build a local ADU business with proven backing, we’re worth a conversation.
Ready to Learn More?
Call (254) 602-5618 to talk with our franchise development team. We’ll walk through territory availability, investment ranges, and what your first 90 days would look like. No pressure, no countdowns, just straight answers about whether Lodgewick ADU Builders fits where you’re headed.
Written by Russ Delmar, Owner at Lodgewick ADU Builders, serving franchise partners since 2010.