This is not the place where you will find franchise owners hanging out.
The main benefit of being part of a franchise is having someone to whine to and hold your hand. Carpet cleaning is a lot like what you are doing now. You are marketing and providing a service to customers. The problem most of us on this board have with Heavens best is they use one method to do everything. They scrub with a 175 rpm buffer.
Many of the guys on this board scrub with a 175 buffer but then they suck up the dirt with a steam cleaner system of some type.
I have no idea why you would sell your business if it is making good money to get into a similar business. Use it to leverage into carpet cleaning and if the new business does not work then you still have the lawn care business.
If you are doing all the work in your current business by yourself or with a helper you will find the carpet cleaning business about the same.
One advantage you have to adding carpet cleaning to your business is you already have a relationship with people that contract for a lot of carpet cleaning.
If you are already running multiple crews at mowing then it is even simpler for you to add carpet cleaning. Get off the mower and take some time to take classes or ride a long with a good cleaner that is willing to show you the ropes. Learn carpet cleaning so you can run it with a helper.
Carpet cleaning is not quite as simple as mowing--I have done both professionally---but in my opinion 3 days on a truck with someone that is willing to teach would get you where you could hold your own especially in cleaning empty apts.
No one has responded that you should buy the Heavens best deal. I agree with everyone else. Heavens Best has a very limited view of how to clean a carpet.
About 25% of the carpet cleaning we have done has involved pet issues---pee and sh#t-- Putting a cotton pad on a buffer and wiping that stuff up is not the best option. With Heavens best it is the only option.
Many of us have different opinions about how we would go if we were you but almost everyone on this board would say a combination of agitation and hot water extraction is what they use.
The other thing is how long will it take you to get your carpet business profitable enough to support you. Most guys do not make a living at it the first couple of years. If you are getting two years income for your mowing business you will be at the same point you are right now in two years except you do not know if you can make it carpet cleaning, you know you can make it mowing.
Keep your day job and moonlight until you know that carpet cleaning is for you.
Good Luck
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