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title: "What Are the Best Home-Based Franchises?"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/b8b28856-f2c0-470f-b472-04eb0780d95f
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/what-are-the-best-home-based-franchises-2717137
category: "Home Services"
industry: "Home Services"
published: 2021-11-10T13:08:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T22:34:06.261Z
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# What Are the Best Home-Based Franchises?

**TL;DR:** Home-based franchises such as Mosquito Joe, Lawn Doctor, and JAN-PRO have become increasingly popular due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These franchises offer a permanent work-from-home lifestyle with lower start-up and operating costs.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2021-11-10. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/what-are-the-best-home-based-franchises-2717137).*

## Story

For franchisees looking for a permanent WFH lifestyle, some of the best franchises include Mosquito Joe, Lawn Doctor, JAN-PRO and more.

The best home-based franchises include senior care concepts, home repair businesses, painting brands, vacation planning concepts and more, which have all become more popular than ever following the COVID-19 pandemic. Even the most established brands have begun to explore why they need to rent expensive downtown office space when work can get done just as well when employees work from home.

Now, as more and more qualified prospects pursue entrepreneurship for the first time to take control of their future, home-based businesses offer the ability to better manage their schedule, spend more time with their family and enjoy a better work/life balance. Not only that, but without the need for an additional physical office space, home-based businesses generally have lower start-up and operating costs as well. The streamlined operating model, which often requires fewer employees, is also a major perk as industries everywhere struggle through the ongoing labor shortage.

Here are 16 of the best home-based franchises available right now.

- Total investment: $104,500

- Total investment: $126,760–$152,815

- Total investment: $84,450–$136,600

- Total investment: $100,000–$125,000

- Total investment: $80,000–$133,000

- Total investment: $86,000–$165,000

- Total investment $142,000–$220,000

- Total investment: $72,000–$94,000

- Total investment: $99,000–$140,000

- Total investment: $68,000–$96,000

- Initial Investment $113,000–$199,000

- Initial investment: $68,000–$100,000

- Initial investment: $2,295–$23,665

- Initial investment: $4,170–$56,020

- Initial investment: $21,000–$29,000

- Initial investment: $40,000–$146,000

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Home Services (sector)
- Mosquito Joe (company)
- Lawn Doctor (company)
- JAN-PRO (company)
- home-based franchises (topic)
- work from home (topic)
- low cost startups (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/what-are-the-best-home-based-franchises-2717137). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/b8b28856-f2c0-470f-b472-04eb0780d95f).