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What does an owner commit to at CareBuilders at Home?

CareBuilders at Home gives an owner a territory of 30,000–40,000 residents aged 65 and over. That is above typical among home care systems.

Across 17 home care systems

How big are other systems' territories, next to CareBuilders at Home's? →

How long you are in, and what leaving looks like

How long the agreement runs
Home Instead: 5Nurse Next Door: 5SYNERGY HomeCare: 5A Place At Home: 10Amada Senior Care: 10Assisting Hands Home Care: 10BrightStar Care: 10CareBuilders at Home: 10ComForCare: 10Comfort Keepers: 10Executive Home Care: 10FirstLight Home Care: 10Griswold: 10Hallmark Homecare: 10Home Matters Caregiving: 10Homewatch CareGivers: 10HomeWell Care Services: 10One You Love Homecare: 10Right at Home: 10Senior Helpers: 10Seniors Helping Seniors: 10Visiting Angels: 10
10
near typical
Source ↗
How long you may not compete after
Post-term non-compete: 2 years within 75 miles
The typical system: 2 years
2 years
near typical
p. 44 ↗
What it costs to hand the business on
30% of the then-current initial franchise fee $7,500 if the transfer is to an immediate family member
A share of the joining fee
p. 14 ↗
What renewing means
$5,000
A flat fee
p. 14 ↗

A standard CareBuilders at Home territory holds 30,000–40,000 residents aged 65 and over.

Standard territory size, across the systems measuring it the same way

Every system here sizes on residents aged 65 and over.

Source: Item 12, 2026 filingsHomecareHQ Intelligence · 2026 FDDs
›View data & method
Standard territory population, systems sizing on residents 65 and over
SystemResidents aged 65+
A Place At Homeabout 40,000
Amada Senior Care32,000–42,000
Assisting Hands Home Careat least 25,000
BrightStar Careat least 15,000
CareBuilders at Home30,000–40,000
ComForCare25,000–35,000
FirstLight Home Careabout 25,000
Griswold25,000
Home Instead10,000
HomeCare Advocacy Network30,000–50,000
Homewatch CareGivers38,000–40,000
HomeWell Care Services30,000–40,000
Nurse Next Doorabout 9,000
One You Love Homecareabout 50,000
Right at Homeat least 15,000
Senior Helpers25,000–35,000
SYNERGY HomeCareabout 20,000

Only systems that state a 65-and-over population are drawn: a system sizing on the whole population has measured something different, and the two are never ranked against each other. Where a filing says “at least” a number, the qualifier travels with the value.

No exclusive territory: Territory is not exclusive

Adding to it: Added population priced at $1.85 per senior

30,000–40,000 people 65+p. 35 ↗

What an owner has to hit, and what happens if they miss

Sales you must reach
Miss it and the agreement can be terminated.
$625K a semiannual, once established
p. 35 ↗

What an owner may not do

What you may sell
  • Franchisor's System Standards may regulate required and authorized products/services and categories, and the franchisor may change them at any time without limit.p. 40 ↗
Who you may sell to
  • Franchisee may not present orders for private-care staffing services in specified circumstances (family financial interest, poor credit/delinquent clients, valuable property access, payroll funding, on-premises services, medical services beyond basic, or non-healthcare clients) without prior written consent.p. 41 ↗
  • Franchisee may not accept any employment order, assignment, or request that is discriminatory, in violation of wage/hour or other laws, for certain services unless approved, or for unauthorized services.p. 41 ↗
Other restrictions
  • Franchisee may only offer or sell goods/services and to clients as permitted, with no other restrictions except as described in Item 12 and below.p. 40 ↗

CareBuilders at Home’s filing states that it has no litigation to disclose.

That is 0.0 per 100 locations, against 1.3 per 100 locations across the whole field. A count of proceedings mostly measures how large and how old a system is, which is why it is shown as a rate and never as a score.

ITEM 3 LITIGATION Pending Litigation No litigation is required to be disclosed in this Item.

How to read these terms

  • Contract language does not summarize. Where a filing states a term in words, those words are what we publish, with the page they are on. Only the handful of terms that are genuinely numbers get compared with other systems.
  • A territory is only comparable to one measured the same way. Some systems size on residents aged 65 and over, some on the whole population. We keep those apart and never rank one against the other.
  • Disclosed cases are not a score. A count of proceedings mostly measures how big and how old a system is. We publish what each filing discloses, in its own words, with a rate per hundred locations so the count is not mistaken for a verdict.
›The numbers behind this page

What the agreement says about the minimums

  • Sales you must reach: “If you do not achieve these minimum revenue amounts then you must pay to us the balance of the minimum semi-annual Continuing Royalty Fee owed. In addition, if you do not meet the minimum revenue amounts or you are otherwise in default under your Franchise Agreement, we may reduce or eliminate your Designated Territory in our sole and absolute discretion. We may also terminate your Franchise Agreement.”

What this filing does not disclose

  • Nothing material to this question is missing from this filing.

Every term on this page is read from CareBuilders at Home’s own 2026 disclosure document, and the wording is the filing’s rather than ours. Territory sizes are compared only with systems measuring on the same basis. Disclosed proceedings are shown as the filing describes them, with their status where the filing states one. Source ↗

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