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What does an owner commit to at Home Matters Caregiving?

Home Matters Caregiving runs its agreement for 10 years.

Across 22 home care systems

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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 50 miles
The typical system: 2 years
2 years
near typical
p. 39 ↗
What it costs to hand the business on
$5,000 if you transfer the Business to an existing franchisee of ours. In all other cases, you must pay a Transfer Fee of $10,000.
It depends who buys
p. 11 ↗
What renewing means
$10,000
A flat fee
p. 11 ↗

A standard Home Matters Caregiving territory is sized on the whole population, at about 200,000 people.

This size is shown on its own: Home Matters Caregiving sizes territories on the whole population, so it has not made the same measurement as the systems that size on residents aged 65 and over.

No exclusive territory: Territory is not exclusive

Adding to it: Added population priced at $0.26 per each additional individual over

about 200,000 total populationp. 9 ↗

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

Sales you must reach
Miss it and the agreement can be terminated.
$1M a year, once established
p. 69 ↗

What an owner may not do

What you may sell
  • Franchisee may only offer products and services that have been approved and specified by the franchisor in the Manual, including updates.p. 37 ↗
  • Franchisee must offer any products or services designated by the franchisor as required in the Manual.p. 37 ↗
  • Franchisee may not offer any products or services not specifically approved in writing, and may not use the Business for any purpose other than operating the Business and selling approved products/services.p. 37 ↗
What else you may run
  • Franchisor has unlimited ability to change the products or services the franchisee is required to sell.p. 37 ↗
Other restrictions
  • Franchisee may not sell products through other channels of distribution such as wholesale, internet, or mail order without express written approval.p. 37 ↗
  • Establishment of accounts and participation in social networking sites for marketing must be done with franchisor approval and franchisor must be granted access; use of the Marks online may be prohibited unless approved in writing.p. 37 ↗

Home Matters Caregiving’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.

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: “In order to maintain your rights under this Agreement, you must meet certain minimum annual Gross Revenue requirements as follows:”

What this filing does not disclose

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

Every term on this page is read from Home Matters Caregiving’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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