HOME SERVICES FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITIES
A home services franchise performs work at the customer’s property: hauling, moving, cleaning, repair, restoration. Demand is local, event-driven, and hard to automate away.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET IN?
Figures below are disclosed in Items 5, 7, and 19 of the current Franchise Disclosure Document, issued April 30, 2026, as amended August 26, 2026.
Junk and moving together. Single concept is $35,000.
Combined model. Trucks and working capital drive the range.
Across 144 franchised locations, per Item 19.
Some College Hunks Hauling Junk businesses have earned these amounts. Your individual results may differ. There is no assurance you will earn as much.
WHY DO BUYERS KEEP CHOOSING HOME SERVICES?
Three things make the category durable, separate from the marketing around any one brand.
A home services franchise licenses you a brand, an operating system, and a protected territory to deliver a physical service at the customer’s location. You are not opening a storefront and waiting for foot traffic. You are running trucks, crews, and a schedule inside a defined geography, and your revenue comes from jobs completed rather than shelf space sold.
WHY DOES THE CATEGORY HOLD UP?
The work has to happen in person. A sofa does not haul itself to the transfer station. Software can route the truck and book the job, but someone still has to carry the couch down three flights of stairs. That keeps the service resistant to the kind of displacement that has hollowed out other small-business categories.
The customer is already looking for you. Home services demand is search-driven and event-driven. A burst pipe, a closing date, a parent moving into assisted living: these create urgent buyers who need a provider today. You are capturing existing demand rather than manufacturing it.
The operating model is teachable. Trades that require years of licensure limit who you can hire. Hauling and moving do not. That widens your labor pool, which is the single most common bottleneck new franchisees hit in their first two years.
WHAT SHOULD YOU LOOK FOR IN AN OPPORTUNITY?
Most people evaluating home services franchises for sale start with the franchise fee, which is the least useful number on the page. The fee is a fraction of what you will actually spend and tells you nothing about whether the business works.
Total initial investment, not the fee
The fee buys the license and the training. The total initial investment covers trucks, equipment, local buildout, licensing, insurance, and the working capital to reach a full schedule. Ask for the full range from Item 7 and ask what drives a buyer to the top of it.
Whether the brand discloses performance at all
Franchisors are not required to publish financial performance. Many do not. A brand that discloses gross sales in Item 19 is giving you something to underwrite against. One that stays silent is asking you to take the opportunity on faith.
Whether one territory can carry more than one revenue line
A single service means a single reason for a customer to call you. Two related services inside one territory let you serve the same household twice, share dispatch and marketing, and smooth the seasonal dips that hit any one line. Junk removal and moving pair this way: the customer clearing out a house is often the same customer relocating out of it.
How College Hunks is structured
College Hunks Hauling Junk & Moving has operated since 2004 and runs the two-service model above: junk removal and moving inside one protected territory, one brand, one dispatch system. Read the specifics in the franchise model breakdown and the investment and costs page, or go deeper on the service line in our guide to the junk removal franchise.
How to evaluate the opportunity from here
Heather runs franchise development. A 20-minute call answers more than any brochure.
Qualifying veterans and first responders receive $3,750 off the initial franchise fee per concept, or $7,500 when both concepts are purchased together.
WHAT IS A HOME SERVICES FRANCHISE?
Your assets are mobile
Trucks and equipment, not a buildout on a lease you cannot exit. That matters enormously if circumstances change.
Your market is bounded
A territory defines who you can serve and protects you from a franchisee two towns over.
Your growth is operational
You add trucks and crews to add capacity, so scaling is a hiring and routing problem more than a real-estate one.
SEE IF YOUR MARKET IS STILL OPEN.
If the category fits and your territory is available, the next move is the disclosure document, not a deposit.
