Home Services · registry year 2024 · HQ MI
Molly Maid Franchise
A Neighborly brand operating in the home services sector, franchising since 1979. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Molly Maid, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $114K – $188K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 6.5%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 500
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $600K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry molly-maid Molly Maid
Molly Maid needs $114K–$188K to open and charges a 6.5% royalty - an entry cost above the typical home services franchise.
- LO $114K
- HI $188K
- FEE $15K
- ROY 6.5%
- UNT 500
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #144/223
- UNT# #139/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Mr. Handyman ($113K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Molly Maid (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Molly Maid's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 2.0% net unit growth (YoY) 43/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where Molly Maid's investment ranks nationally
Molly Maid's listed Item 7 low of $114K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
Molly Maid vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$114,000 Lower than most lower than 66% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $15K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $600K
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
20 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Home Services
- Subsector
- cleaning
- Founded
- 1979
- Franchising Since
- 1979
- Headquarters
- MI
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Molly Maid
This Molly Maid page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Molly Maid.
What the Molly Maid FDD reveals
Signature read: 500 locations · Item 7 low $114K
Molly Maid, a Neighborly franchise, has been franchising since 1979 , currently with 500 total locations (500 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the home services sector, headquartered in MI. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $114K to $188K, with separate listed low and high values. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $15K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
Royalty payments here are set at 6.5% of gross sales with a separate 2.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 8.5%. Molly Maid has a recorded Item 19 financial-performance field; Item 19 disclosure is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $600K; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $39K as a simple arithmetic illustration, not a cost or profit estimate. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.
The unit count trend here is positive -- Molly Maid posted 2.0% net growth year-over-year (30 openings, 20 closures). The registry records both the reported percentage and the count of openings and closures when those fields are available.
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Related reading for Molly Maid: Understanding FDDs , Molly Maid lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How Molly Maid's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Molly Maid , both outside HQ state MI : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($114K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (500 here).
What to do with this
Molly Maid at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Molly Maid scores 72/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $114K – $188K entry cost runs above the typical home services franchise.
- Ranks #144 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Mr. Handyman sits at a comparable investment level ($113K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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