Home Clean Heroes franchise
2024 filing · April 8, 2024Shares sales figures
Home Clean Heroes at a glance
A cleaning service doing one-time, recurring and move-in or move-out cleaning for homes and light commercial customers. At the end of 2023 there were 18 Home Clean Heroes locations in the US, 16 franchised and 2 company-owned.
The business
- Franchisor
- Home Clean Heroes Franchising, LLC
- The company that sells the franchises
- Franchising since
- 2018
- 6 years of selling franchises
What you pay
- Cost to open
- $113K–$196K
- Fee, build-out and opening working capital
- Franchise fee
- $50,000
- Paid once, when you sign
- Royalty
- 6%
- 6% of total revenue, paid monthly
Where it is
- US locations, 2023
- 18
- Franchised and company-owned
- Franchised
- 16
- Company-owned
- 2
From Home Clean Heroes Franchising, LLC’s 2024 filing; SBA status from the SBA Franchise Directory, October 28, 2026.
Where it ranks
Home Clean Heroes among all franchises with the same figure.
| Figure | Home Clean Heroes | Among all franchises |
|---|---|---|
| Cost to open, midpointHalfway between the low and high estimate | $154,397 | Costs less than 76% of franchises |
| Franchise feePaid once, when you sign | $50,000 | Higher than 70% of franchises |
| RoyaltyShare of sales paid to the franchisor | 6% | Higher than 35% of brands with a set rate |
| US locationsFranchised and company-owned | 18 | Fewer than 52% of franchises |
| Sales per locationYearly, as the brand reports it | $291,041 | Lower than 89% of brands that share sales figures |
| Sales against cost to openYearly sales over the cost midpoint | 1.9× | Higher than 61% of brands that share sales figures |
How much a Home Clean Heroes franchise costs
Opening one Home Clean Heroes costs an estimated $112,745 to $196,049. That covers the franchise fee and everything else needed to open, through the first months of working capital.
Source: Home Clean Heroes Franchising, LLC, 2024 filing, page 25
Home Clean Heroes franchise fee
The franchise fee is $50,000. You pay it when you sign the franchise agreement.
Source: Home Clean Heroes Franchising, LLC, 2024 filing, page 14
Royalty and ongoing fees
| Royalty | 6% of total revenue, paid monthly. |
|---|
The typical franchise royalty is 6% of sales, plus 2% for marketing. See franchise fees and royalties to compare.
Source: Home Clean Heroes Franchising, LLC, 2024 filing, page 17
Sales and earnings
Shares figures Home Clean Heroes publishes sales or earnings figures for its locations. The full tables, with notes on which locations are counted, are in its filing.
- Average revenue
- $291,041
- Median revenue
- $238,002
Yearly figures for 2023, covering franchised businesses open 12 or more months at the end of 2023 (6 locations). The average is about 1.9 times the midpoint of the cost to open.
Sales are what a location takes in before rent, payroll, royalties and other costs, not what its owner keeps.
Source: Home Clean Heroes Franchising, LLC, 2024 filing, pages 57–64
SBA loans to Home Clean Heroes franchisees
Lenders approved 12 SBA 7(a) loans for Home Clean Heroes franchisees from 2021 to 2024, $1.76M in all. Of the 3 that have ended, 2 were paid in full and 1 was charged off. The other 9 haven’t ended yet.
A charged-off loan is one written off as uncollectible. See SBA franchise loans for how 7(a) and 504 loans work.
Source: SBA 7(a) and 504 loan data, as of September 30, 2026
How Home Clean Heroes compares
Of the 20 residential cleaning franchises on this site, Home Clean Heroes is the 14th cheapest to open and the 10th largest by number of locations.
| Figure | Home Clean Heroes | Typical residential cleaning brand | Typical franchise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to open, low end | $113K | $100K | $222K |
| Cost to open, high end | $196K | $144K | $477K |
| Franchise fee | $50K | $43K | $40K |
| Royalty | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Sales per location | $291K | $409K | $794K |
| US locations | 18 | 21 | 21 |
| Change in franchised locations, 0 yrs | +433.3% | +10.6% | – |
| Shares earnings figures | Yes | 14 of 20 | 2,147 of 3,352 |
Typical is the median across the 20 brands in residential cleaning franchises; typical franchise, across every brand here.
Locations opened and closed
| Year | Franchised | Company-owned |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 (+1) | 2 |
| 2020 | 3 (+2) | 2 |
| 2021 | 8 (+5) | 2 |
| 2022 | 12 (+4) | 2 |
| 2023 | 16 (+4) | 2 |
Closed or left counts terminations, non-renewals, locations bought back by the franchisor and locations that stopped operating.
See which brands grew most in the fastest-growing franchises rankings.
More in the guides: cleaning franchise costs and franchise failure rates.
Over 5 years, from the start of 2019 to the end of 2023, franchised locations went from 0 to 16 (+16). The earlier years come from the brand's 2022 filing.
Source: Home Clean Heroes Franchising, LLC, 2024 filing, page 67
2019–2020: Home Clean Heroes Franchising, LLC, 2022 filing, page 63
Who owns Home Clean Heroes?
Home Clean Heroes franchises are sold by Home Clean Heroes Franchising, LLC.
From Home Clean Heroes Franchising, LLC’s 2024 filing.
Lawsuits and bankruptcy
| Lawsuits and regulatory actions | Yes. The filing describes past or pending cases involving the franchisor, its affiliates or its executives on pages 99–101. |
|---|---|
| Bankruptcy | No bankruptcy of the franchisor. It discloses a personal bankruptcy filed years ago by one of its staff or executives. |
Franchisors must disclose lawsuits and bankruptcies involving the company, its parents and affiliates, and its executives. Many cases are routine disputes with franchisees over fees or contracts; read the descriptions in the filing and ask current owners about anything that worries you.
Source: Home Clean Heroes Franchising, LLC, 2024 filing, litigation on pages 99–101, bankruptcy on page 13
Home Clean Heroes filings
A franchisor files a new disclosure each year it sells franchises. The figures on this page come from Home Clean Heroes Franchising, LLC’s 2024 filing, issued April 8, 2024; the earlier ones below are on record with the Minnesota Department of Commerce and the NASAA Electronic Filing Depository and fill in older location counts.
| Filing | Issued | Registry | On this page |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 filing | April 8, 2024 | Minnesota | Costs, fees and locations, 2021–2023 |
| 2022 filing | March 16, 2022 | NASAA depository | Locations, 2019–2020 |
Each link opens the filing as a PDF. See the newest filings across all brands.
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