Handyman business franchise: Handyman Franchise Board

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

4 of the 22 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 18 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 70 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per franchisor per FDD year: initial franchise fee, Item 7 total initial investment low and high, royalty rate, ad-fund rate, liquid capital and net worth required, territory definition, veteran discount - read from the franchisor's own investment page and reconciled against the FDD the state registers hold; the figure nobody publishes is the BOARD: median and range of the initial fee and of total investment across every handyman and adjacent home-repair brand that publishes one, the share that publishes at all versus enquiry-gated, cost per protected household, and repriced-since the previous read (a franchise fee that moves is the news, because it moves once a year with the FDD filing)

70 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.