I made a research and decided to choose a cleaning services franchise. I chose the Maid Simple House Cleaning Franchise. It offers light cleaning services including dusting, mopping, vacuuming, and tidying. Generally, two employees perform cleaning services at each customer's home. I chose this franchise because it is a growing company with 30 years history. It is home-based business. That means tmore freedom, tax advantages.

Maid Simple House Cleaning is helping aspiring enterpreneurs since 1979. Maid Simple House Cleaning has over 400 franchise territories in the United states and continuing to grow. Maid Simple House Cleaning offers a complete franchise package including an advertising and customer aqcuisition programm , a national sales center that handles customer scheduling, billing and payment processing, and continous training and marketing support. A Maid Simple House Cleaning franchisee will receive a license to operate a business under the trade name, trademarks, service marks, logotypes, and commercial symbols that Maid Simple House Cleaninge designate, including the service mark Maid Simple House Cleaninge, gain access to customers through Internet alliances and partnerships of Maid Simple House Cleaning, obtain otheir assistance in matters like marketing, management, human resources, products, financial planning, and services,gain access to the full array of proprietary products and services they offer, inciuding their confidentiai business information and specifications. Franchisee will operate the Franehised Business from home. will offer light day time house cleaning services for homes. Maid Simple House Cleaning will provide franchisee with an opening inventory of equipment and supplies.

The initial franchise fee is 10 000$. In addition to initial franchise fee franchisee will have to pay 19 500$, for what they call Turnkey Package that includes initial inventory of equipment and supplies, business cards, office forms, and route administration forms, training manuals, marketing to obtain customers and access to their Confidential Operations Manual,

The net worth of the Maid Simple House Cleaning Franchise is 30000$.

Maid Simple House Cleaning Franchise provides:

* Onsite start up training. * Marketing support. * Customer acquisition programm * Ongoing training * Payment processing * Scheduling * Billing

The franchisee must pay to the franchise the Royalty fee, the amout is 25% of all gross sales., Transfer fee 4000$, Renewal approximately 1000$, Management fee varies under circumstances but generally between 5%-10% of revenue earned during the period that franchise manage franchisee's business. Franchise charges a daily fee plus expenses for assistance they provide at franchisee's request is approximately 300$ a day. Franchisee has to pay for the insurance, proprietary items and services franchise provides to franchisee's customers.

The Maid Simple House Cleaning model is based on an operator cleaning an average of 2 homes per day. The average charge will be 99$ for each cleaning. The full schedule would include approximately 10 homes per week. That means that revenue per year will be approximately 50 000$. After paying Royalty fee the profit will be 35000$.