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Home Cleaning Centers franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Item 19 disclosed

What Home Cleaning Centers's most recent Franchise Disclosure Document says about the money, the litigation, and the franchisee churn — before you wire a five- or six-figure franchise fee.

Everything below is free, read straight off Home Cleaning Centers's registered filing. Weighing Home Cleaning Centers against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Home Cleaning Centers's most recent FDD (registered 2022). Source: Minnesota Dept. of Commerce — CARDS franchise registrations · filing 23431-202204-03 — check it yourself. See every other Minnesota-registered franchise.

How much does a Home Cleaning Centers franchise make?

Home Cleaning Centers 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 other brand that discloses earnings in the Other franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Home Cleaning Centers 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 Home Cleaning Centers's 5% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Home Cleaning Centers franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Home Cleaning Centers franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure.

Home Cleaning Centers lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Home Cleaning Centers's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2022) discloses no litigation in Item 3. That is a real signal rather than a gap: the FTC Franchise Rule requires a franchisor to disclose material litigation involving itself, its predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 in a current filing means there was nothing it was required to report. It is worth reading alongside the churn numbers — a system can have a clean Item 3 and still be losing franchisees, which is what Item 20 shows.

Home Cleaning Centers closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Home Cleaning Centers 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 Home Cleaning Centers's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a franchise 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. Home Cleaning Centers's outlet tables did not machine-read cleanly; Item 20 of the source FDD has them.

Who owns Home Cleaning Centers?

Home Cleaning Centers's franchise is offered by Home Cleaning Centers of America, Inc. — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2022), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at MN CARDS; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Other franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Home Cleaning Centers 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.

Home Cleaning Centers franchise — frequently asked