Become an AJ Shades Dealer in Vermont

Vermont squeezes its outdoor living into a glorious few months, and nobody wastes a single evening of it willingly. The pattern is familiar statewide: spectacular days, low-angle sun hammering west-facing decks, and evenings when the mosquitoes and black flies take over right at prime porch time. From Burlington's lakefront to Stowe's second homes to the Northeast Kingdom's camps, homeowners invest heavily in maximizing the season. Motorized power screens give them the evening back, one button, bugs gone, view intact. Retractable awnings give them the afternoon, with LED options that stretch the usable hours past dusk. When the season is this short, every reclaimed hour is worth real money to the buyer.

AJ Shades is a veteran-owned American manufacturer headquartered in Southern California, building a nationwide network of independent dealers for our Quality Improvement Products line: motorized power screens, open-roll retractable awnings, and full-cassette awnings. The model, stated plainly: AJ Shades' own installation crews serve only Southern California (San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties). As a Vermont dealer, you sell and install our products in your own market; we supply them wholesale, train you on the full line, and back every awning and screen with our 15-year factory warranty.

Vermont's buyer mix is unusually favorable: second-home owners from Boston and New York who buy premium without hesitation, plus a strong local market of homeowners who invest in their properties for the long term. Dealers buy manufacturer-direct at wholesale and keep the retail margin, no distributors, no rep layers. Premium shade competition across the state is essentially zero, which means the dealer who establishes the category, in Burlington, the Upper Valley, or the resort corridors, writes the playbook for everyone who follows.

One thing to understand up front: our own install teams work exclusively in Southern California (San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties). Your dealership covers your market, you sell, you install, you keep the customer relationship. We supply the products wholesale and back them with the factory warranty.

Vermont's second-home economy means your customer is often deciding from Boston or New York, sight unseen, which makes your process the product. Dealers who measure precisely, communicate clearly, and install on schedule get specified by architects and property managers who never set foot on the job site.