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Five Star Painting franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Stable network Item 19 disclosed

Five Star Painting is a home services franchise with an initial investment ranging from $82,200 to $194,600.

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

Figures above are as disclosed in Five Star Painting's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640754 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Five Star Painting franchise make?

Five Star Painting 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 did not machine-read cleanly from this filing, so we don't print one; Item 19 of the source FDD has the tables. See every home services brand that discloses earnings in the Home services & home improvement franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Five Star Painting 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 Five Star Painting franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Five Star Painting franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure.

Five Star Painting lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Five Star Painting's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) does disclose 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 Five Star Painting 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. Item 3 of the source FDD describes each case.

Five Star Painting closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Five Star Painting 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 Five Star Painting'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. Five Star Painting's latest tables show a stable franchised network. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 4.1%, against a home services median of 5.1% — at or better than the category. Net franchised outlets moved 0 to 245 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Five Star Painting?

Five Star Painting's franchise is offered by Five Star Painting SPV LLC — 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 Five Star Painting 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.

Five Star Painting franchise — frequently asked