Franchise Fridays: Home Improvement

A slowing housing market means home improvement is where the money is.

Mortgage interest rates are at their highest level in decades. There is economic uncertainty everywhere we look. At moments like these, people are more inclined to forego, or delay the decision to buy a new home and will look to remodeling and making improvements to their current home instead. This is what makes the home improvement sector recession resistant. Homeowners will need your services whether they are building or purchasing a new home, or remodeling their current home.

Lets explore five of the best home improvement franchise opportunities available today.

Get A Grip is a leading resurfacing company that offers innovative products and techniques to transform kitchen and bathroom surfaces for both residential and commercial properties. Our services include repairing and resurfacing fiberglass bathtubs, countertops, cabinets, and tile. With over 30 locations across the country, our team is dedicated to delivering quality work that is environmentally friendly and cost-effective.

Our focus on ingenuity and safety is evident in the quality of work that we deliver to our clients. By choosing resurfacing over replacement, our customers can avoid the stress and cost of full-scale remodels while reducing their carbon footprint. We believe in keeping materials out of landfills and cutting back on waste to help protect the environment.

We’re Granite Garage Floors. Invest in a niche home services and small commercial business with fantastic quality and customer service, lifetime satisfaction guarantee, terrific referrals and strong differentiation!

Few employees, high margins, easy operation, strong training and support, and universal appeal. No office required, can be home based.

We are somewhat unique in that we work with homeowners and many types of businesses to upgrade their garages, basements, patios, pool areas, showrooms, service bays and other concrete floors. Very little competition, fantastic consumer testimonials, lots of professional referrals and easy differentiation!

We have fantastic financial data, including every franchise location with annual revenue, # of jobs and average job cost. 10 years of sales data showing 50% of leads become in-home estimates, 50% of estimates become jobs!

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives is an outdoor lighting company that specializes in transforming your outdoor spaces with low-voltage architectural and landscape lighting. From outdoor lighting highlighting the architectural details of properties to garden illumination to festive patio string lights to seasonal holiday lighting, they have designed and installed over 150,000 lighting systems across North America and around the world.

We’re the leading outdoor lighting franchise in the industry with over 100 locations and over 150,000 professional outdoor lighting installations completed.  We offer a robust business model focusing on, Residential LED Low Voltage Lighting, Holiday Lighting (Commercial and Residential), and Commercial / Hospitality Lighting Solutions.

Refresh Renovations is the world’s largest renovation specialist with over 90 locations up and running across New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Refresh Renovations has helped franchise owners from all walks of life transform their careers, incomes, and lifestyles. Refresh seeks out business-minded individuals who have experience in business management, leadership, teambuilding and customer service. By pairing these traits with innovative systems, processes and a business and marketing support team – Refresh has developed a proven formula for business success.

Refresh is an end-to-end business model with all the software systems and tools to manage projects from lead in through build and completion. This enables franchisees to deliver the best customer experience and solve a massive problem for both homeowners and tradespeople.

The Grounds Guys, a Neighborly company, offers a full-service landscape and design concept with a year round recurring revenue model.

Our franchise provides the resources and support of a nationally respected brand and gives you the opportunity to scale your landscape business to meet your own personal, professional, and financial goals. Meanwhile, you’ll help customers enhance and maintain the beauty of their outdoor spaces.

As a franchisee you will provide commercial, residential and municipal property maintenance, landscaping and hardscaping services; snow and ice maintenance services; trash and debris removal; arboriculture services; lawn renovation; residential, commercial and municipal turf care services; and other related services and products.

As a part of Neighborly, The Grounds Guys franchisees have access to resources, marketing strategies, and proven systems that business owners won’t find anywhere else. We assist with technology training, solutions for day-to-day operations, education on advancement in the industry, and more. Neighborly™, Neighborly’s consumer-facing, united collective of home service brands, allows for valuable cross-promotional marketing and demographic research. Our approach includes extensive training and support for every franchisee at every step of the way.