SBA loan outcome check · franchise brand · SBA data as of 30 September 2026

How have SBA loans to Signs Now franchisees turned out?

Of 38 loans approved in fiscal 2000 to 2013 (at least five years old), 5 (13.2%) were charged off by the lender, against 20.2% across all 7(a) loans approved in those same years. Signs Now appears on 38 SBA-guaranteed 7(a) loans approved from fiscal 2000 to 2013, $8.6 million in gross approvals. These are loans, not a rating.
Not financial, legal or franchise advice. This page reports what the SBA's loan file records for SBA-guaranteed loans. A charge-off rate is not a rating of a brand or an industry, it does not predict a new loan, and a franchisee's loan is not a measure of the franchisor. Read the franchise's disclosure document and talk to a lender or an adviser before you borrow.
Signs NowFranchise brand · 38 loans
13%of seasoned loans charged off
  1. Signs Now appears on 38 SBA-guaranteed 7(a) loans approved from fiscal 2000 to 2013, $8.6 million in gross approvals.
  2. Of 38 loans approved in fiscal 2000 to 2013 (at least five years old), 5 (13.2%) were charged off by the lender, against 20.2% across all 7(a) loans approved in those same years.
  3. A charge-off is a loan the lender wrote off. It is not a statement about the borrower, the brand or the franchisor, and it does not predict how a new loan will turn out.

Every approval year

Approval yearLoansApprovedPaid in fullCharged offNot yet resolvedCharged-off share
FY20002$935,800200few loans
FY20013$2.4 million300few loans
FY20023$627,000210few loans
FY200311$1.3 million11000.0%
FY20041$50,000100few loans
FY20053$900,000210few loans
FY20061$216,400010few loans
FY20071$800,000100few loans
FY20083$445,000210few loans
FY20092$145,000200few loans
FY20104$416,000400few loans
FY20111$50,000100few loans
FY20133$307,000210few loans

US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA loan data as of 30 September 2026. SBA-guaranteed 7(a) loans only, aggregated; no borrower or lender is shown. SBA open data.

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Compiled and checked by Vincent Wesley Couey (ORCID 0009-0005-6869-308X) from the SBA 7(a) FOIA loan data, as of 30 September 2026. Not an official source.

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