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ShelfGenie franchise — is it worth it?

Low risk Growing network Item 19 disclosed

ShelfGenie is a home services franchise with a relatively low initial investment range of $55,550 to $148,350.

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

Figures above are as disclosed in ShelfGenie's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640773 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a ShelfGenie franchise make?

ShelfGenie 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.

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

ShelfGenie lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

ShelfGenie'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 ShelfGenie 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.

ShelfGenie closures & failure rate

Before you sign, ShelfGenie 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 ShelfGenie'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. ShelfGenie's latest tables show a growing franchised network. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 3.1%, against a home services median of 5.1% — at or better than the category. Net franchised outlets moved +1 to 262 in the latest reported year.

Who owns ShelfGenie?

ShelfGenie's franchise is offered by ShelfGenie 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 ShelfGenie 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.

ShelfGenie franchise — frequently asked