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Home Instead vs Amada — which franchise is the better buy?

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	Home Instead	Amada
Disclosure honesty	B	B
Investment from	$91,040	$118,190
Total fees	7%	6%
Outlets	619	203
Lawsuits	3	10

Home Instead: what their numbers say

Discloses 2024 gross sales for 603 franchises (median $2.26M, average $2.61M) and care platform growth data. Cherry-picks by excluding closed units and using median rather than mean emphasis.

Amada: what their numbers say

Gross Billings data for 200 franchised outlets. 2024 median: $1,194,785; average $1,607,831. Top quartile average $3,543,407. Bottom quartile average $347,943. First-year average $562,578.

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