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Local Hometown Heroes franchise — is it worth it?
Medium risk Item 19 disclosed
Local Hometown Heroes is a home services brand with a relatively low initial investment range of $96,250 to $234,500.
Everything below is free, read straight off Local Hometown Heroes's registered filing, with where the numbers land against home services peers. Weighing Local Hometown Heroes against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.
Figures above are as disclosed in Local Hometown Heroes's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 641828 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.
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How much does a Local Hometown Heroes franchise make?
Local Hometown Heroes 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 $632,865 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.
Local Hometown Heroes 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 Local Hometown Heroes franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Local Hometown Heroes franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure.
Local Hometown Heroes lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)
Local Hometown Heroes's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) 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.
Local Hometown Heroes closures & failure rate
Before you sign, Local Hometown Heroes 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 Local Hometown Heroes'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. Local Hometown Heroes's outlet tables did not machine-read cleanly; Item 20 of the source FDD has them.
Home services franchises at a similar investment level
Anyone weighing Local Hometown Heroes 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.
Local Hometown Heroes franchise — frequently asked
How much does a Local Hometown Heroes franchise cost?
Local Hometown Heroes's most recently filed FDD (Item 7) puts the total estimated initial investment at $96,250 – $234,500. That price is the franchisor's own estimate of what it takes to open, not a quote. Against home services peers it sits in the lower quartile (median $162,725).
How much profit does a Local Hometown Heroes franchise make?
Local Hometown Heroes discloses unit earnings in Item 19, but that figure is revenue — sales — not profit. Royalties, the ad fund, rent, payroll and supplies all come out of it, and no FDD discloses what an owner nets. Any Local Hometown Heroes franchise profit number quoted elsewhere is an estimate. The headline figure Local Hometown Heroes discloses is $632,865 in average unit revenue.
Does Local Hometown Heroes disclose financial performance (Item 19)?
Yes — Local Hometown Heroes reports unit-level earnings in Item 19. The headline figure is $632,865 in average unit revenue, as the franchisor states it.
Are there lawsuits against Local Hometown Heroes?
No — Local Hometown Heroes's most recently filed FDD (2026) discloses no litigation in Item 3. Franchisors must disclose material litigation involving themselves, their predecessors, parents, affiliates and management, so an empty Item 3 is a genuine signal rather than an omission.
Is Local Hometown Heroes a good franchise to buy?
Nobody can answer that from Local Hometown Heroes's numbers alone — it comes down to how its investment, earnings, litigation and franchisee churn stack up against home services peers and against your own budget. Our read on this filing is medium risk. Every figure behind that read is on this page for free. If you're comparing options, the free shortlist on this page matches you with 5–10 franchises that fit your budget and industry.
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