How Much Does a Comfort Keepers Franchise Cost? 2026 Sourced FDD Record
The published source receipt on this page supports the Comfort Keepers 2026 Item 7 record.
The Comfort Keepers Item 7 total initial investment is $119,560 to $190,700, with an initial franchise fee of $55k in the Inkvex benchmark. The total reflects minimal real estate rather than a real-estate purchase. The exact filing receipt appears below.
Source-backed filing record
Format breakdown
The published source receipt on this page supports the Comfort Keepers 2026 Item 7 record.
In-home senior care. The additional-funds high equals the total high in the filing, preserved verbatim. See footnote.
The total reflects minimal real estate rather than a real-estate purchase.
The sourced filing lists the additional-funds high as equal to the total high. The figures are preserved as filed and the inconsistency is disclosed.
Inkvex preserves the reported variance rather than silently choosing a different value. The filing receipt below lets a reader recheck it.
Source checked 2026-07-17: Minnesota Commerce Applications and Registration Database, 2026 FDD record 35155-202512-07, received 2025-12-23. Item 7 appears on PDF page 28.
- Royalty floor: The royalty is 5% of Gross Revenue, with a $500 monthly minimum during the first 24 months. (Item 6, PDF p. 19)
- Marketing fund: The contribution is the lesser of $802.89 per month, adjusted for CPI, or 2% of monthly Gross Revenue. (Item 6, PDF p. 19)
- Revenue benchmark caution: Item 19 reports net revenue on an unaudited, cash-basis royalty-report cohort, so it is not a gross-sales comparison. (Item 19, PDF p. 77)
- Opening-count caution: Of the 45 outlets reported as opened in FY2025, 30 were refranchised former company-owned units and 15 were brand-new openings. (Item 20, PDF p. 89)
Inkvex analysis, not a franchisor disclosure
What the Comfort Keepers numbers mean next to the rest of the benchmark
This section places the stored $119,560 to $190,700 range against the other 54 brand groups. The medians, ranks, ratios, and nearest peers are Inkvex arithmetic, not franchisor disclosures. The corpus mixes 2024 through 2026 records, multiple formats, and different real-estate treatments, so use it for directional comparison and verify the underlying rows before making a decision.
Against Senior care
Across the 5 Senior care format rows in this benchmark, the median low is $102,754 and the median high is $190,700. Comfort Keepers opens 16% above that median low, a gap of $16,806, and tops out 0% level with the median high, a gap of $0. 0% of Senior care formats here exclude real estate from the headline total, so check the real-estate handling before setting two brands in this category side by side.
Against all 55 brands
Comfort Keepers ranks 51st of 55 by high-end total, its $190,700 high end running 70% below the $644,000 corpus median high, and its $119,560 low end 57% below the $275,500 corpus median low. The brands sitting closest to Comfort Keepers on high-end total are Mosquito Joe at $191,575 in Home services, Molly Maid at $203,950 in Home services and Right at Home at $176,239 in Senior care, which is the company Comfort Keepers actually keeps on cost regardless of what industry it is sorted into.
The spread between low and high
Comfort Keepers discloses a high end 1.6 times its low end, against a median of 2.1 times across these 55 brands. At 1.6 times, the ratio sits at or below the lower quartile of this benchmark. The arithmetic shows a relatively narrow stored range; it does not establish that the estimate is complete or that a local project will fit inside it. The gap between the two ends is $71,140, and nothing in Item 7 tells a buyer where inside that gap their own build lands.
What financing review still requires
This page does not calculate the cash a buyer needs and does not predict lender approval. SBA currently lists a $5,000,000 maximum for a single 7(a) loan, but eligibility, loan amount, documents, and terms depend on the borrower, lender, project, and transaction. The currently effective SBA SOP 50 10, Version 8 contains transaction-specific equity rules; Version 8.1 is posted with an October 1, 2026 effective date. A lender should build the sources-and-uses schedule from the current FDD, local bids, working capital, and any costs the Item 7 range excludes.
What the headline total does and does not include
The total reflects minimal real estate rather than a real-estate purchase. In plain terms, the $119,560 to $190,700 headline for Comfort Keepers reflects occupying premises rather than buying them, so lease terms drive what the space actually costs.
Verify this before you sign a Comfort Keepers agreement
This page is a benchmark comparison with the source limitation stated above. When the relevant language appears in the Comfort Keepers FDD you upload, an Inkvex review can surface quoted passages, a 1-to-10 risk score, real-estate and working-capital issues, and an attorney-handoff summary. Coverage depends on the document and analysis output, so verify every material point against the filing and with franchise counsel.
Run a first-pass review of the Comfort Keepers FDD before counsel starts the full read.
Comfort Keepers franchise cost FAQ
Answers distinguish the stored benchmark record, source-backed filing evidence when available, and Inkvex arithmetic. The format breakdown above carries the record detail and custody status.
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This page is legal information, not legal advice. It is a first pass for your attorney or franchise counsel, not a substitute for one. Item 7 is a franchisor estimate. This page publishes an exact filing locator only where the source receipt says so; otherwise the figures are benchmark records whose locator is not published in the repository. Verify every number against the current FDD.