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The Cleaning Authority

cleaning · HQ Columbia, Maryland · Founded 1977 · Franchising since 1996
Directory onlyUnclaimed profile
Factbook Score: pending
Brand has 0 year(s) of Item 20 history in our current extraction; needs 3+ to compute a Factbook Score. Per methodology, this shows as 'Score pending — insufficient history', never a penalized score. See the methodology — this score can never be bought.
Data-integrity flags on this profile
  • warnItem 7 range incomplete
Total initial investment
FDD Item 7
Franchise fee
FDD Item 5
Royalty
Franchised units
3-yr unit growth
CAGR from Item 20
Owner turnover
3-yr average, Item 20

What it really costs

Every cost figure this brand's filing discloses — not just the headline range

ExpenseLowHigh
Initial franchise fee
Total initial investment

Item 7 reports a total range, not a full line-item breakdown, in this brand's filing excerpt — the franchise fee is the only cost we can show separately today.

Earnings disclosure

Does the franchisor share performance data? No

This brand's filing does not include an Item 19 financial performance representation. That's common — a large share of franchisors disclose nothing here — but it means you should ask for unit-level economics directly during discovery calls.

Legal history

CLEAR
No bankruptcy disclosures for the franchisor or its officers.
NOT DISCLOSED
Non-compete term/radius wasn't separately quantified in the filing excerpt we have on file.

Profile changelog

Jul 30 Initial FDD data extracted (directory only) — M0 pipeline batch

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Facts on this page are sourced from The Cleaning Authority's Franchise Disclosure Document. Source: https://franchimp.com/?f=104327_2024.pdf&page=pdf

Only unsourced marketing-page-level territory sizing was visible ('Territory' defined by zip codes: 30,000-60,000 households for Enterprise Markets, 15,000-29,999 for Hometown Markets) but that text could not be confirmed as literal Item 12 language vs. site copy, so it was left out of facts rather than guessed. HQ/founding/franchising-since are public-record facts used for brand identification only, not FDD-sourced.