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Always Best Care Senior Services

Health & Wellness - Senior CareFranchising since 2007Website
Investment
$90K – $146K
42nd pct Senior Care
Avg revenue
74th pct Senior Care
Royalty
6.0%
37th pct Senior Care
Units
275
87th pct Senior Care
SBA default
0.0%
vs <3% typical

Bottom line

  • Total investment $90K – $146K including a $50K franchise fee, 6.0% ongoing royalty.
  • No Item 19 financial performance data disclosed — the franchisor chose not to publish revenue figures.
  • Rated STRONG with a risk score of 53/100. SBA loan default rate of 0.0% across 70 loans (below the industry average).
  • System growing at 19.0% CAGR over 3 years with 275 total units — strong expansion trajectory.

Item 1 · who you're contracting with

The Franchisor

Legal entity
ABCSP, LLC
Parent company
AB Care Acquisition, Inc.
Incorporated in
California
HQ
1406 Blue Oaks Blvd, Roseville, California 95747
Auditor
Whitley Penn LLP
Audited financials
Franchisor revenue
$18.0M
vs $21.3M prior year

Yale framework · single-unit ROIC

Returns Analysis

Pulls Item 7 (investment) and Item 19 (revenue) from this brand's FDD into the Yale unlevered-ROIC formula. Override any input to stress-test it against your own assumptions.

The model · Yale framework

What would one Always Best Care Senior Services unit return on the cash you put in?

Revenue · per unit, per year
$
Item 19 not disclosed — typing your own estimate
Franchisor take · royalty + ad fund
Royaltytyp 68%
%
Ad fundtyp 35%
%
Operating costs · category default: personal services
COGS
%
Labor
%
Rent / occupancy
%
Other operating
%
Total invested capital · what you actually put in
Initial investment
$
FDD Item 7: $90K–$146K
Working capital
$
FDD reports $17K–$30K

Unlevered ROIC · per unit

111%

Above typical band (30–60%)

0%30–60% Yale band80%
ROIC above 100% usually means the revenue figure is a system-wide aggregate or top-cohort number rather than a single-unit average. Verify the "Revenue · per unit" field against the brand's FDD Item 19 detail tables before relying on this output.

Store EBITDA · annual
$158K
EBITDA margin
21.0%
Total invested
$141K
Payback
11 mo
Unit-level only. A multi-unit portfolio gives up roughly 5–15% of this to shared services (corporate G&A) before reaching the ~10-unit break-even Yale describes.

Overview

About

Franchisees operate a senior home care service business, recruiting and managing caregivers who provide in-home assistance to elderly clients. Day-to-day operations include client acquisition, caregiver scheduling/supervision, quality assurance, and billing/payroll management. Revenue is generated through hourly billing for caregiver services, typically with franchisees managing 10-50+ active client relationships per location.

CEO
Jake Brown
Founded
2000
FDD year
2025
States available
31

Item 7 · what it costs

The Vitals

Total investment
$90K – $146K
All-in to open one unit
Liquid capital
$17K – $30K
Cash you must have on hand
Franchise fee
$50K
Royalty
6.0%
Gross Sales · typical 6–8%
Ad fund
Greater of 2% of Gross Sales or $300 per month
Total fee load
8.0%
vs 9–13% typical

Item 19

Financial Performance

This franchisor did not disclose financial performance representations in Item 19, or our extractor could not parse them.

Item 20 · unit dynamics

The Growth Chart

Total units
275
Opened
27
Last reporting year
Closed
1
Turnover rate
0.4%
Company-owned
0
Corporate units in the system
% franchised
100%
vs corporate-owned
Net growth (yr3)
+10.4%
Net unit change last year
3-yr CAGR
+19.0%
Compounded over last 3 years
2023
275+26
Franchised units
2024
249
Franchised units
2025
231
Franchised units

Year-over-year franchised unit counts and net change. Source: FDD Item 20.

Item 20 · 25 states with active franchisees

The Territory Map

Derived from franchisee contact records. Shows states with at least one current operator — not where the franchisor is registered to sell new units (that data is re-extracting in a future refresh).

AK
ME
VT
NH
MA
RI
CT
NY
NJ
PA
DE
MD
DC
WA
OR
CA
NV
ID
MT
WY
UT
CO
AZ
NM
ND
SD
NE
KS
OK
TX
MN
IA
MO
AR
LA
WI
IL
MS
TN
MI
IN
KY
AL
OH
WV
GA
VA
NC
SC
FL
HI
Registered · 25 states
Not registered

States derived from franchisee phone area codes (Item 20). Approximate — ported numbers may show the original state, not the franchisee's current location.

Government records

SBA Loan Data

Aggregated from SBA 7(a) loan disclosures, public data unique to FranchiseVerdict.

Total loans
70
Loan volume
Avg loan
Default rate
0.0%
vs <3% typical · system-wide
5-yr default

FranchiseVerdict rating + FDD Items 3, 5, 6, 12, 17

Risk & Legal

53
Risk · 0-100
STRONG53 / 100

Undisclosed financials, recurring litigation including recent franchisor collection action, and modest unit growth present meaningful profitability and operational risk despite reasonable initial investment and protected territory.

Score breakdown · what drove the 53 / 100 rating

  1. 01MEDNo Item 19 financial disclosure (Avg Revenue and Net Income not disclosed) prevents ROI validation on $89,725-$145,900 investment
  2. 02HIGHMultiple litigation incidents over 14 years including recent 2024 franchisor lawsuit for past-due amounts and 2012 FTC consent order, suggesting compliance and collection issues
  3. 03MED10.4% YoY unit growth is modest for senior care sector; 275 units is relatively small system with limited scale economies
  4. 04MED6% royalty + minimum royalty structure creates fixed cost burden if revenue targets aren't met, especially without disclosed benchmarks
  5. 05HIGHProtected territory language vague—unclear if territorial exclusivity is truly enforced given litigation history and franchise compliance concerns

Severity inferred from the FDD text · not a regulatory classification

FDD Items 5, 6, 12, 17 · continued from Risk & Legal

Contract & Territory Detail

Territory
Demographic/Zip Code based
Protected territory
Yes
Initial term
10 years
Renewal term
10 years
Online sales rights
Restricted
Franchisor can compete
Yes
Hire a manager?
Allowed
Litigation count
4
Right of first refusal
Yes
Franchisor can buy back on resale
Mandatory arbitration
Yes
Jury trial waiver
Yes
Non-compete
2 yrs
Post-termination restriction
Owner-operator
Optional
Governing law
California

Item 11

Training & Operations

Classroom training
40 hrs
On-the-job training
204 hrs
POS system
WellSky
Operating tech stack

Item 20

Franchisee Contacts

Phone numbers extracted directly from this brand's FDD Item 20. After purchase, you'll also receive a list of validation questions tailored to this brand.

Franchisee contacts

96 numbers

Locked
(707) 317-••••
CA
(505) 898-••••
NM
(410) 877-••••
MD

One-time purchase · CSV download · Validation questions included

FDD download

Always Best Care Senior Services · FDD (2025) PDF

Single-page checkout · instant download · CSV export of contacts available separately above