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Parak: Uber-style on-demand models fail for vacation rental cleaning
“The biggest competitor is called Handy, where it's just like an Uber type service for cleaning. It can't, what we found is it can't really be like that for Airbnb vacation rentals. That's why we're doing the franchise model, which is much more localized for th…”
Parak: Vacation rental turnovers are far more profitable than residential cleaning
“High, high volume, right? You know, people are staying for three, four days at a time. So I realized how much more profitable was than a regular residential.”
Neil Parak: Franchise cleaning companies typically trade at 6x to 8x EBITDA
“So franchise cleaning companies trade at anywhere between like typically in normal times, six to eight times EBITDA.”
MaidThis pays 50% to 60% of cleaning fees to contractors
“So it does depend on the cleaner, but you're going to, you're looking at roughly 50 to 55%, maybe up to 60%. If we're outsourcing to a company, it could be even more, but like, let's say 50 to 60% is typically what you're pushing out to the cleaner.”
Parak: MaidThis has been bootstrapped with zero outside capital
“Bootstrap, bootstrapped from day one. And the great part about the business model is like, it is pretty lean, right? You get a job, you do the marketing at the beginning, but it's highly recurring revenue. So especially when you get that client in, you keep th…”
MaidThis charges franchisees a $35,000 initial fee and 6% royalty
“So the franchise model we charge 35,000 dollars for the initial fee and then we charge Six percent royalty is the amount that's charged for the ongoing fee.”
Parak: MaidThis invested roughly $200,000 to launch franchise operations
“For the franchise operations, I probably put 200,000 dollars in to get that set up.”