Franchise Facts Report → brands → Surv

Surv franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Stable network Item 19 disclosed

Surv is a home services franchise with a relatively low initial investment range of $111,825 to $160,650.

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

Figures above are as disclosed in Surv's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 641438 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Surv franchise make?

Surv 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 $181,808 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.

Surv 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 Surv's 7% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Surv franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Surv franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure. On $181,808 of revenue, a 7% royalty alone is about $12,727 a year before any other cost.

Surv lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

We do not publish a litigation answer for Surv. Item 3 could not be read reliably from this particular filing, and a claim that a company has no legal history is not one to make on a failed parse — so we say we do not know instead. Item 3 of the FDD itself is the place to check; the methodology page explains what we do and do not machine-read.

Surv closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Surv 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 Surv'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. Surv's latest tables show a stable franchised network. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 0%, against a home services median of 5.1% — at or better than the category. Net franchised outlets moved 0 to 4 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Surv?

Surv's franchise is offered by Surv Franchisor, 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 Surv 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.

Surv franchise — frequently asked