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Maintaining Home Maintenance


No matter how well built, all homes will eventually begin to deteriorate without ongoing maintenance and care. In the past, these tasks were almost always carried out by the homeowner themselves, who were often the ones to have built the home in the first place.

Now, however, it takes more than a basic working knowledge of plumbing and electrical work to carry out appropriate home repairs and, to get the job done right, skilled labor must be brought in. What’s more, even when a family member does know how to correctly address a home maintenance issue, there is rarely the time to get it done, let alone done right the first time. It’s no real surprise, then, that Entrepreneur magazine rated home improvement as one of the hottest trends in franchising in its January 2004 "Good as Gold" edition.

The home maintenance and repair industry may be as old as real estate itself, but as a sophisticated new franchise model, Maintenance Made Simple is overhauling the home repair industry and changing the way homeowners think about home maintenance.

  • Nearly1000 second homes will be purchased every day from now until the year 2010

  • Spending on home improvements annually exceeds $150 billion

  • Home improvement spending grows by approximately $30 billion every year

  • Professional trades people perform 78% of all remodeling projects

  • Over 3 million homes are bought and sold in the U.S. each year.

  • Within 18 months of their purchase, most new homeowners remodel

  • 42% of new home buyers face unexpected repairs after moving in

  • To prepare their home for sale, 33% of home sellers will spend more than $1000
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