Home Services · registry year 2024 · HQ TX
Mr. Rooter Plumbing Franchise
A Neighborly brand operating in the home services sector, franchising since 1974. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Mr. Rooter Plumbing, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $86K – $212K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 300
- Total locations · Small network
- $800K
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry mr-rooter-plumbing Mr. Rooter Plumbing
Mr. Rooter Plumbing needs $86K–$212K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost in line with the typical home services franchise.
- LO $86K
- HI $212K
- FEE $38K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 300
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #165/223
- UNT# #177/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: ServiceMaster Clean ($86K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Mr. Rooter Plumbing (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. Rooter Plumbing's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 3.3% net unit growth (YoY) 58/100 · 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 Mr. Rooter Plumbing's investment ranks nationally
Mr. Rooter Plumbing's listed Item 7 low of $86K 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. Rooter Plumbing vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$86,000 Among the lowest lower than 75% 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
- $38K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $800K
- 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
- plumbing
- Founded
- 1970
- Franchising Since
- 1974
- Headquarters
- TX
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Mr. Rooter Plumbing
This Mr. Rooter Plumbing page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Mr. Rooter Plumbing.
Compact-network entry costs for Mr. Rooter Plumbing
Signature read: 300 locations · Item 7 low $86K
Mr. Rooter Plumbing, a Neighborly franchise, has been franchising since 1974 - 4 years after the concept was founded in 1970 , currently with 300 total locations (300 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the home services sector, headquartered in TX. The registry records a total initial investment between $86K and $212K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. A franchise-fee field of $38K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
Ongoing royalties run 6.0% of gross sales with a separate 2.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 8.0%. The registry records an Item 19 field for Mr. Rooter Plumbing. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $800K; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $48K 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.
Network momentum is currently positive: Mr. Rooter Plumbing added units at a 3.3% net rate year-over-year (20 openings, 10 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 Mr. Rooter Plumbing: Understanding FDDs , Mr. Rooter Plumbing 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. Rooter Plumbing'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. Rooter Plumbing , both outside HQ state TX : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($86K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (300 here).
What to do with this
Mr. Rooter Plumbing at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Mr. Rooter Plumbing scores 79/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $86K – $212K entry cost runs in line with the typical home services franchise.
- Ranks #165 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- ServiceMaster Clean sits at a comparable investment level ($86K) 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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