Home Services · registry year 2024 · HQ MI
Mr. Handyman Franchise
A Neighborly brand operating in the home services sector, franchising since 2000. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Mr. Handyman, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $113K – $157K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 7.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 340
- Total locations · Small network
- $700K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry mr-handyman Mr. Handyman
Mr. Handyman needs $113K–$157K to open and charges a 7.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical home services franchise.
- LO $113K
- HI $157K
- FEE $50K
- ROY 7.0%
- UNT 340
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #146/223
- UNT# #168/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: 1-800-GOT-JUNK? ($113K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Mr. Handyman (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 Mr. Handyman's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 5.9% net unit growth (YoY) 86/100 · B
- 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 Mr. Handyman's investment ranks nationally
Mr. Handyman's listed Item 7 low of $113K 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.
Mr. Handyman vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$113,000 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
- $50K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $700K
- 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
10 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Home Services
- Subsector
- home repair
- Founded
- 2000
- Franchising Since
- 2000
- Headquarters
- MI
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Mr. Handyman
This Mr. Handyman page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Mr. Handyman.
Small-network FDD fields for Mr. Handyman
Signature read: 340 locations · Item 7 low $113K
Mr. Handyman, a Neighborly franchise, has been franchising since 2000 , currently with 340 total locations (340 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the home services sector, headquartered in MI. The registry records a total initial investment between $113K and $157K, with separate listed low and high values. A franchise-fee field of $50K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
The brand charges 7.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties, plus a 2.0% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 9.0%. The registry records an Item 19 field for Mr. Handyman. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $700K; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $49K as an arithmetic illustration only. Revenue is not profit; this registry does not contain a complete operating-cost or profit record.
Mr. Handyman's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 5.9% net rate over the past year (30 openings, 10 closures). This is a reported network-size change, not a measure of profitability, demand, or franchisee outcomes.
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Related reading for Mr. Handyman: Understanding FDDs , Mr. Handyman 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 Mr. Handyman's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Mr. Handyman , 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 ($113K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (340 here).
What to do with this
Mr. Handyman at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Mr. Handyman scores 93/100 (A) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $113K – $157K entry cost runs above the typical home services franchise.
- Ranks #146 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- 1-800-GOT-JUNK? 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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