MaidPro Franchise Cost, Revenue & Review 2026
Data from FDD filing + SBA 7(a) records
Analysis by FranchiseVerdict Research · Methodology
MaidPro is a residential cleaning franchise providing recurring house cleaning with trained staff. Franchisees run a route-based operation managing cleaners, scheduling, and customer retention in a territory.
FranchiseVerdict summary · 2026
A MaidPro franchise requires a total initial investment of $110K – $159K, including a $45K franchise fee and an ongoing 6.0% royalty[2]. Per the 2025 FDD, average unit revenue was $462K[2]. SBA 7(a) loans show a 9.7% charge-off rate across 48 loans[1]. FranchiseVerdict grade: A (Strongest tier), an editorial assessment, not investment advice. Run a live ROI scan →
Data last verified · figures per the 2025 FDD issuance
Overview
- Investment
- $110K – $159K
- 42nd pct Cleaning & Ma…
- Avg gross sales
- $462K
- 13th pct Cleaning & Ma…
- Royalty
- 6.0%
- 9th pct Cleaning & Ma…
- Units
- 237
- 74th pct Cleaning & Ma…
- SBA charge-off
- 9.7%
- % of SBA 7(a) loans not repaid · median varies by category
Quick verdict · Cleaning & Maintenance · color = vs category peers
Green = favorable by >10% vs Cleaning & Maintenance avg · No shading = within ±10% · Red = unfavorable by >10% · Source: FDD filings + SBA 7(a)
Data from public FDD filings and SBA records. Not financial advice. Methodology
Bottom line
- COSTTotal investment $110K – $159K including a $45K franchise fee, 6.0% ongoing royalty.
- RETURNSAverage unit revenue of $462K/year (median $398K).
- RISKVerdict A (Strongest tier), verdict score 64/100 (higher is better). SBA loan charge-off rate of 9.7% across 48 loans (near or below the 16% franchise average, based on all SBA 7(a) franchise lending, 2010–2025).
Item 1 · who you're contracting with
The Franchisor
Corporate structure & franchisor financials
- Legal entity
- MaidPro Franchise, LLC
- Parent company
- Threshold Brands, LLC
- Ultimate parent
- HS Group Holding Company, LLC
- Predecessor
- MaidPro Franchise Corporation (converted from Massachusetts corporation)
- Prior franchisor entity
- CEO title
- Chief Executive Officer and Manager
- Theodore Demarino
- Incorporated in
- DE
- HQ
- 77 North Washington Street, Boston, MA 02114
- Auditor
- Plante & Moran, PLLC
- Audited financials
- Franchisor revenue
- $49.0M
- vs $49.0M prior year
Overview
About
- CEO
- Theodore Demarino
- Headquarters
- MA
- Founded
- 1996
- FDD year
- 2025
- States available
- 39
Can you afford it, and what does the money buy?
Entry cost runs 57% below the typical cleaning & maintenance franchise.
Source: FDD 2025 · Items 5–7
FDD Item 7 · 2025 filing
Initial investment breakdown
| Cost component | Low | High |
|---|---|---|
| Initial franchise fee | $45K | $45K |
| Working capital (3–6 mo) | $19K | $23K |
| Equipment, build-out, other | $46K | $91K |
| Total initial investment | $110K | $159K |
Source: MaidPro 2025 FDD, Items 5 and 7[2]. “Equipment, build-out, other” is computed as total minus disclosed line items above.
Item 7 · what it costs to open + operate
The Vitals
- Total investment
- $110K – $159K
- Middle of category vs category
- Liquid capital req'd
- $19K – $23K
- Middle of category vs category
- Franchise fee
- $45K – $45K
- Top 40% of category vs category
- Royalty
- 6.0%
- percentage · typical 6–8%
- Ad fund
- 2.0%
- typical 3–5%
- Total fee load
- 8.0%
- vs 9–13% typical
Ongoing fees · Item 6
| Fee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Royalty | 6.0% of gross sales |
| Marketing / ad fund | 2.0% of gross sales |
| Technology fee | $500 |
| Training fee | $500 |
| Transfer fee | $5K |
| Renewal fee | $3K |
| Total fee load | 8.0% of rev |
What do units actually make?
Average unit sales run 49% below the cleaning & maintenance norm.
Source: FDD 2025 · Item 19
Single-unit · estimated
Returns at a glance
Indicative numbers using FDD Item 7 / Item 19 inputs and category-benchmarked cost ratios. Full single-unit, 25-unit portfolio, and LBO models (with every input editable to stress-test your own scenario) live on the financials page.
Store EBITDA · annual
$51K
11.0% margin
Unlevered ROIC
33%
EBITDA / total invested capital
Payback
3.1 yrs
cash-on-cash, unlevered
ROI & LBO modelsSingle-unit · 25-unit portfolio · editable
What one unit earns on your invested capital
Model A · Single-Unit Return
Computes unlevered return on invested capital (ROIC) for a single franchise unit. The target band for an attractive franchise is 30–60% ROIC. Below that and a passive index fund likely outperforms; above that and the franchisor has pricing power you're subsidizing.
Note: Item 19 revenue is what the franchisor discloses. It's the top line only. Operating costs below are category estimates. Override them to match your real lease quote, labor market, and build-out budget.
Returns model · single-unit ROIC
What would one MaidPro unit return on the cash you put in?
Unlevered ROIC · per unit
Estimated return on your total franchise investment, before any debt financing.
33%
Within the 30–60% "attractive franchise" band
What 25 units return when you use SBA financing
Model B · Return on Equity: Debt-Financed Acquisition
Models a 25-unit portfolio acquisition financed with an SBA 7(a) loan. Shows equity IRR (your return on cash invested), DSCR (how safely the cash flow covers debt service), and the capital stack (SBA + seller + equity breakdown).
This is the “search fund” or “entrepreneurship through acquisition” scenario: you buy an existing multi-unit operator, use leverage to amplify returns, and either operate or hire management. The 25-unit size is the typical minimum for an SBA-backed franchise portfolio acquisition to pencil as a full-time income.
What “return on equity” means here: if you put in $500K of your own cash and the business generates enough EBITDA to pay down debt and grow, your equity IRR is the annual return on that $500K, including the value created when you eventually sell. Target IRR for a search fund is typically 25–35%.
Levered LBO scenario · Yale Crease Capital framing
What would 25 MaidPro units return on equity?
Equity IRR · 5-yr
49.9%
7.57× MOIC
Year-1 DSCR
1.88×
EBITDA ÷ debt service
Equity required
$370K
on $1.8M purchase
Total debt
$1.5M
SBA $0.9M + senior + seller note
These models are for research and scenario planning only. Not investment advice. Actual results depend on your specific location, management, and market conditions. Consult a franchise attorney and accountant before signing any franchise agreement.
Item 19 · Source: 2025 FDD
Financial Performance
- Avg gross sales
- $462K
- Per unit, per year
- Median gross sales
- $398K
Gross sales are revenue before expenses — not profit. Actual owner earnings depend on rent, labor, royalties, marketing fees, and debt service.
- Item 19 type
- gross sales
- Sample size
- 231 outlets
- vs category median 32 · large
- Range (low → high)
- $14K→$2.8M
- Cohort dispersion (min → max)
- Quartile band
- $134K→$958K
- Bottom 25% → top 25%
- Reporting year
- 2024
- Fiscal year the figures cover
- Source filing
- FDD 2025
- Disclosed in the 2025 filing, covering 2024
- Transparency
- 4 / 10
- vs category median 4 / 10 · typical
Compared against 192 Cleaning & Maintenance brands
Operator outlook
What the numbers say
Data-driven interpretation of this brand's financial disclosures, fee structure, and system trajectory.
Unit economics
Average unit generates $462K/year in gross sales. Revenue-to-investment ratio: 3.4x.
Fee burden
Total ongoing fee load of 8.0% — below the Cleaning & Maintenance average of 9.7%.
Disclosure
Transparency score 4/10 — this franchisor discloses detailed breakdowns (quartiles, segments, or cohort data). Buyers can model unit economics with higher confidence.
Operator retention
System roughly stable (-1.7% 3-year CAGR) with 237 units.
Source: FDD Item 19 financial performance representations and publicly filed FDD data. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Verify all figures with the franchisor and current franchisees before making any investment decision.
vs Cleaning & Maintenance averages
How MaidPro Compares
Is the system healthy?
Source: FDD 2025 · Item 20
Unit growth
Item 20 · unit dynamics
The Growth Chart
- Total units
- 237
- Opened
- 7
- Last reporting year
- Closed
- 3
- Terminated
- 4
- Franchisor ended the franchise (per Item 20)
- Non-renewed
- 0
- Term expired, not renewed (per Item 20)
- Turnover rate
- 10.5%
- Company-owned
- 0
- Corporate units in the system
- % franchised
- 100%
- vs corporate-owned
- Net growth (3-yr)
- -1.7%
- Net unit change over 3 years
- 3-yr CAGR
- -1.7%
- Compounded over last 3 years
3-year detail · Item 20
- Opened (3yr)
- 19
- Closed (3yr)
- 11
- Terminated (3yr)
- 13
- Non-renewed (3yr)
- 1
- Transfers (3yr)
- 40
- Reacquired (3yr)
- 0
- Franchisor bought back
Year-over-year franchised unit counts and net change. Source: FDD Item 20.
Item 20 · 38 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).
States derived from franchisee contact records (FDD Item 20). Shows states with at least one current operator on file. Full state registration data (Item 12) will appear on a future FDD refresh.
SBA loan performance
Government records
SBA Loan Data
Aggregated from SBA 7(a) and 504 loan disclosures, public data unique to FranchiseVerdict.
- Total loans
- 48
- Loan volume
- $8.5M
- Median loan
- $125K
- 50th percentile
- Charge-off rate
- 9.7%
- rates vary by category · see methodology
Historical SBA 7(a) lending data, not predictive of future performance. How SBA charge-off rates are calculated
- Repayment rate (PIF)
- 90.3%
- 5-yr charge-off
- 0.0%
- Loans approved 2021+
- Active lenders
- 33
- Defaults
- 3
- Typical loan rate
- 7.3%
- avg rate to borrowers
- Franchised industry avg
- 15.4%
- brand beats franchise avg ↓
- Jobs supported
- 952
- 11.2 per loan
- Lender concentration
- 15%
- top lender's share
Borrower mix: 37% went to startups / new businesses, 63% to established operators
Franchise vs independent — in janitorial services, franchised businesses charge off at 15.4% vs 22.8% for independents — franchising is associated with 32% lower SBA default risk in this category.
Vintage analysis
MaidPro charge-off rate by loan vintage
Top lenders financing MaidPro franchisees
Showing 3 of 33 lenders. The full breakdown — every lender, state distribution, interest rates & risk ratings — is in the SBA Lending Report below.
Explore lender portfolios on Bank Reports or regional data on State Reports.
Premium insight
SBA Lending Report
Deep-dive into MaidPro's SBA lending history: lender network, geographic footprint, interest rates, and more.
SBA Lending Report
- Principal loss rate and NAICS industry benchmark
- 10 lenders with concentration factor
- Per-state charge-off rates across 15 states
- Startup risk premium and job creation velocity
- 15-year lending trend
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What could kill this investment?
SBA loans charge off at 9.7% — 40% below the 16.0% national norm, i.e. lower lender-observed risk.
Source: SBA 7(a) FOIA · FDD Items 3, 21
Risk analysis
FranchiseVerdict rating + FDD Items 3, 4, 8, 16, 21
Risk & Legal
MaidPro presents moderate-to-cautious risk due to missing profitability disclosure, stagnant unit reporting, recent franchisee litigation, and gross-based royalty structure that obscures true franchisee economics.
Litigation (Item 3)
1) MaidPro v. La Lucha Inc. - arbitration for failure to pay amounts due and post-termination non-compete violation, settled June 2024. 2) In the Matter of MaidPro Franchise LLC (Maryland Securities Commissioner) - consent order for 2022 franchise sales violating deferral condition, $15,000 penalty paid.
Largest disclosed settlement: $15,000
Bankruptcy (Item 4)
None disclosed
Audited financials (Item 21)
Yes · Plante & Moran, PLLC
Franchisor revenue (Item 21)
Franchisor entity revenue (not unit-level)
ⓘ These are the parent company's consolidated financials (the parent guarantees the franchisor), not this brand's standalone results — the figure reflects the whole corporate group, not this brand alone.
Supplier relationship · Items 8 & 16
- Franchisor sells you products: Yes
- Must buy proprietary products: Yes
- Restricted to system-approved products: Yes
Score breakdown · what drove the 64 / 100 verdict
- 01MEDNo average net income disclosed in Item 19 — impossible to verify actual franchisee profitability against $109,860-$158,650 investment
- 02MINORUnknown unit growth trajectory — 237 units reported but no growth metrics; potential stagnation or contraction masked
- 03HIGHRecent litigation (March 2024) involving non-compete enforcement suggests franchisor-franchisee conflict and potential post-termination difficulties
- 04MINOR6% royalty on gross (not net) sales creates cash flow pressure during slow periods and misalignment with franchisee profitability
- 05MEDHigh franchise fee ($45,000) relative to service-based model with uncertain payback period given missing profitability data
Severity inferred from the FDD text · not a regulatory classification
What are you signing up for?
Ongoing fees run about 8.0% of sales (royalty + ad fund), before rent and labor.
Source: FDD 2025 · Items 11, 12, 17
FDD Items 12, 15, 17 · continued from Risk & Legal
Contract & Territory Detail
| Initial term | 5 years |
|---|---|
| Renewal term | 5 years |
| Allowed renewalsℹ | 1 |
| Territory type | exclusive |
| Protected territory | Yes |
| Exclusive territoryℹ | Yes |
| Territory population | 45,000 |
| Online sales rightsℹ | Granted |
| Franchisor can compete | Yes |
| Hire a manager? | Allowed |
| Owner-operator | Required |
| Non-compete (years)ℹ | 1 year |
| Right of first refusalℹ | Yes |
| RoFR response window | 30 days |
| Transfer requires consent | Yes |
| Termination notice | 10 days |
| Curable defaultsℹ | 3 |
| Mandatory arbitration | Yes |
| Arbitration location | Boston, MA (AAA closest to principal office) |
| Jury trial waiver | Yes |
| Governing law | MA |
| Litigation count | 2 |
View Item 3 litigation summary
1) MaidPro v. La Lucha Inc. - arbitration for failure to pay amounts due and post-termination non-compete violation, settled June 2024. 2) In the Matter of MaidPro Franchise LLC (Maryland Securities Commissioner) - consent order for 2022 franchise sales violating deferral condition, $15,000 penalty paid.
Items 10, 11
Training & Operations
- Classroom training
- 182 hrs
- On-the-job training
- 14 hrs
- Training location
- Boston, MA (headquarters) or remote/virtual
- Ongoing training
- Required
- Time to open
- 4 mo
- From signing to launch
- Site selection
- Franchisee selects, subject to franchisor consent
- Franchisor financing
- Offered
- Item 10
- POS system
- MaidPro Software
- Operating tech stack
Items 5 & 11
Franchisor Support
Technology: MaidPro Software
Item 20 · call current owners
Franchisee Contacts
224 owners to call
Name · phone · city · state. Extracted from FDD Item 20
FDD download
MaidPro · FDD (2025) PDF
Frequently asked questions
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to open a MaidPro franchise?
The total investment to open a MaidPro franchise ranges from $110K – $159K, with an initial franchise fee of $45K. This includes real estate, equipment, inventory, and working capital as disclosed in their Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD).
What do MaidPro franchise owners earn?
According to Item 19 of the MaidPro FDD, the average gross sales per unit is $462K. The median is $398K. Note: this is gross revenue, not profit. Actual owner earnings vary based on location, operating costs, and management.
What is Item 19 in the MaidPro FDD?
The FDD section where a franchisor may disclose financial performance of its outlets. Disclosure is optional and formats vary; figures are typically gross sales, which is revenue before expenses, not profit. FranchiseVerdict extracts these figures directly from the MaidPro FDD and qualifies whose outlets they describe.
What is MaidPro's franchise failure rate?
Based on SBA 7(a) loan data, MaidPro has a charge-off rate of 9.7% across 48 loans, meaning 9.7% of franchise loans were charged off. Charge-off rates are one proxy for franchise risk, though they do not capture all closures. This data comes from FOIA-sourced SBA lending records.
How many MaidPro franchise locations are there?
As of their most recent FDD filing, MaidPro has 237 total units in the United States, including 237 franchised units and 0 company-owned units. 7 new units were opened in the latest reporting year.
Is MaidPro a good franchise to buy?
FranchiseVerdict rates MaidPro as a A-grade franchise with a verdict score of 64 out of 100 (higher is better), based on our analysis of investment costs, revenue data, SBA loan performance, and growth trends. Our rating is based solely on publicly available FDD and government data; we recommend speaking with current franchisees before making any investment decision. This is not investment advice.
Data sourced from public FDD filings and SBA 7(a) FOIA records. Not financial advice.
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Data extracted from public FDD filings and SBA 7(a) loan disclosures (FOIA). This information is provided for research purposes only and does not constitute financial, legal, or investment advice. Verify all figures with the franchisor's current Franchise Disclosure Document before making any investment decision.