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CertaPro Painters franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Shrinking network Item 19 disclosed

CertaPro Painters is a home services franchise with a strong average gross sales performance exceeding $2.1 million, as disclosed in its Item 19.

Everything below is free, read straight off CertaPro Painters's registered filing, with where the numbers land against home services peers. Weighing CertaPro Painters against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in CertaPro Painters's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640884 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a CertaPro Painters franchise make?

CertaPro Painters is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure is $2,102,015 in average unit revenue — read it alongside what Item 19 says about which units it covers (often only mature or top-performing locations). See every home services brand that discloses earnings in the Home services & home improvement franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

CertaPro Painters franchise profit vs. revenue

Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come the royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a CertaPro Painters franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "CertaPro Painters franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure.

CertaPro Painters lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

CertaPro Painters's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) does disclose 2 legal proceedings in Item 3 . Item 3 is the item where a franchisor must put its material legal history on the record. Two things it is not: it covers the franchisor and its predecessors, parents and affiliates, so a disclosed case is not necessarily a suit against CertaPro Painters itself; and a disclosure is a fact, not a finding of wrongdoing — most entries are contract disputes with former franchisees, which every large system accumulates. 2 of those proceedings were brought by franchisees against the franchisor — the split that actually matters, because franchisees suing their franchisor is the signal a buyer is looking for. Item 3 of the source FDD describes each case.

CertaPro Painters closures & failure rate

Before you sign, CertaPro Painters 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 CertaPro Painters's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a home services 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. CertaPro Painters's latest tables show a shrinking franchised network — more units left than opened. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 1%, against a home services median of 5.1% — at or better than the category. Net franchised outlets moved -4 to 299 in the latest reported year.

Who owns CertaPro Painters?

CertaPro Painters's franchise is offered by Certa ProPainters, Ltd. — 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.

Home services franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing CertaPro Painters 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.

CertaPro Painters franchise — frequently asked