Seems like it can scale quite well. Look at Merry Maids and Jani-king. It wouldn't surprise me if a more modern maid service that was entirely corporate-owned (rather than a franchise) supplanted the current leaders at some point.
The margins seem high enough that layers of management could work.
Difficulty in keeping good employees hasn't stopped Wal-Mart or McDonald's.
Times are tougher than most people alive can remember, so if it's working at all now, it probably can only get better.
There may be a solid first-mover advantage, so barriers to entry that are non-financial may exist.
It sounds like his part of the work isn't difficult. I don't know if I'd define what a maid does as difficult either. It just sucks.
Running a business of any size is a major personal growth opportunity.
My guess is customer service calls will happen at reasonable hours. Nobody wakes up at 4 am to decide their maids did a bad job.
I can't comment on taxes. He claims to be insured/bonded. I don't know much about that for that sort of business though.
Seems like it can scale quite well. Look at Merry Maids and Jani-king. It wouldn't surprise me if a more modern maid service that was entirely corporate-owned (rather than a franchise) supplanted the current leaders at some point.
The margins seem high enough that layers of management could work.
Difficulty in keeping good employees hasn't stopped Wal-Mart or McDonald's.
Times are tougher than most people alive can remember, so if it's working at all now, it probably can only get better.
There may be a solid first-mover advantage, so barriers to entry that are non-financial may exist.
It sounds like his part of the work isn't difficult. I don't know if I'd define what a maid does as difficult either. It just sucks.
Running a business of any size is a major personal growth opportunity.
My guess is customer service calls will happen at reasonable hours. Nobody wakes up at 4 am to decide their maids did a bad job.
I can't comment on taxes. He claims to be insured/bonded. I don't know much about that for that sort of business though.