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Quality Inn: how 392 SBA-financed owners actually did

Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels · 757 units financed with SBA 7(a) loans since 2010 · 152 lenders have funded this brand.

Defaults run above comparable brands

4 of 392 seasoned units charged off — 0.8%, against 0.3% for similar brands. Worth asking the franchisor about directly.

Units financed
757
SBA 7(a), 2010 onward
Old enough to judge
392
loans at least 7 years old
Defaulted
4
charged off within 7 years
Default rate
0.8%
comparable brands 0.3%
Typical loan
$2.4M
$1.1M–$4.3M

How this brand compares

share of loan dollars charged off within 7 years
Quality Inn
0.8%
Comparable brands, typical
0.3%
Days Inn / Days Inn by Wyndham
0.7%
Comfort Inn
0.6%
Best Western - Best Western Plus - Best Western Premier- Executive Residency by Best Western- @Home by Best Western - GLo - Aiden - Membership Agreement
1.0%
All SBA 7(a) loans
2.1%

Franchise disclosure documents are not required to tell you how many owners failed. This is computed from the federal record of every SBA loan made to this brand, so it is the outcome, not the pitch.

Source SBA 7(a) FOIA, franchise field Released 2026-06-30 Sample 392 loans at least 7 years old Method dollar-weighted, grouped by year approved

When owners got into trouble

share of failures by year
Year 4
10%
Year 6+
90%

Failures usually cluster once the opening cash is spent and the first rent increase lands. Plan working capital for that window, not for month one.

Who still lends on it

last two fiscal years
LenderUnits funded
GBank16
US Metro Bank6
Enterprise Bank & Trust4
PromiseOne Bank3
Celtic Bank Corporation3

Fewer active lenders means less competition on your rate, and a harder time if the first bank declines.

Each year's owners, as they aged

cumulative % of loan dollars charged off
OpenedYr 1Yr 2Yr 3Yr 4Yr 5Yr 6Yr 7Yr 8Yr 9Yr 10
20130.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
20140.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.50.54.1
20150.00.00.00.00.00.00.01.61.61.6
20160.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0·
20170.00.00.00.00.00.01.81.8··
20180.00.00.00.00.00.81.7···
20190.00.00.00.60.60.6····
20200.00.00.00.00.0·····
20210.00.00.00.0······
20220.00.00.0·······
20230.00.0········
20240.0·········
2025··········
0%
12%+▨ too recent to know

Each row is one year's crop of new owners. Read across to watch them age; read down a column to compare different years at the same point in their life. Blank cells are simply too recent to know.

Brands worth comparing against this one

A default rate only means something next to its neighbours. These are the brands yours is being compared against.

Before you sign anything

This page tells you how past owners fared with SBA debt. It does not tell you whether this brand suits you, what the territory looks like, or how the franchisor behaves. Ask for Item 19, talk to at least five current franchisees and two who left, and run your own numbers.

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