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Buy a STOP Restoration Franchise

STOP Restoration, short for Service Team of Professionals, is a property restoration franchise that helps homeowners and businesses recover after water, fire, smoke, mold, and storm damage. Beyond core mitigation, local offices handle reconstruction, contents cleaning, biohazard cleanup, duct and specialty cleaning, crawl space encapsulation, and asbestos abatement, much of it carried out as insurance-backed claims work.

The brand traces its roots to 1971 and has franchised since 1996. It now operates as part of Authority Brands, one of North America’s largest home services platforms, sitting within a restoration division alongside sister brand DRYmedic. The Authority Brands network spans more than a dozen brands and over 1,000 franchise owners.

STOP runs a territory-based model built on local, branch-led operations and round-the-clock emergency response. Each location is independently owned and operated, with trained technicians delivering restoration work across residential and commercial properties. The brand positions itself around fast response, certified workmanship, and compassionate service to people dealing with property loss.

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Why buy a STOP Restoration Franchise?

STOP Restoration operates in a non-discretionary, insurance-backed category where demand holds up across economic cycles: property damage needs urgent professional attention regardless of interest rates or consumer confidence. That gives the model a measure of resilience many service businesses lack.

Buying a STOP Restoration franchise also means joining the Authority Brands platform, which gives owners access to ongoing training and business coaching, localized marketing support, advertising strategies, and integrated business-management systems that an independent restorer would have to assemble alone. The multi-service model, spanning water, fire, mold, reconstruction, and specialty work, lets a single territory pursue several revenue lines from one operating base.

STOP Restoration Franchise Costs & Information

  • Minimum Qualifications

    • Initial Franchise Fee

      $48,000

    • Initial Investment

      $78,600 – $143,500

  • Royalty

    • Royalty Fee

      9%

  • Training & Support

    • Comprehensive technical

    • Business training

    • Ongoing support

    • Marketing support

STOP Restoration – Additional  Information

  1. Training & Support

    As part of Authority Brands, STOP Restoration owners receive ongoing training, business coaching, localized marketing support, and integrated business-management systems. Franchisees also gain access to industry-specific operations software for scheduling, customer communication, estimating, job documentation, and insurance-claim workflows. Initial training pairs classroom instruction with hands-on field experience and online learning. Buyers of an existing STOP unit should confirm what transfer training and operating-system access the franchisor provides to incoming owners and staff.

  2. Ideal Owner

    STOP Restoration suits a hands-on local operator who can lead a team of field technicians rather than work every job personally. Day to day, the owner drives local marketing, builds referral relationships with insurance adjusters, agents, and property managers, and oversees scheduling, estimating, and quality on emergency-response jobs. Because losses happen around the clock, comfort with 24/7 intake and dispatch matters. Prior construction, restoration, or property-management experience helps but is not required; the model rewards process discipline, customer empathy, and steady people management.

  3. Recognition & Awards

    STOP Restoration has been recognized by Franchise Business Review, including a Top Innovative Franchises listing and recognition among top franchises for veterans, signals tied to franchisee satisfaction in a brand operating since 1971. It is an IFA member and a VetFran and DiversityFran participant, and is verified through FRANdata's Franchise Registry. As part of Authority Brands, a platform of more than a dozen home-services brands and over 1,000 owners, STOP also draws on parent-company scale. For resale buyers, brand recognition should be weighed alongside the territory's local reviews, referral sources, and reputation.

  4. Industry / Market

    The US property restoration and remediation market was valued at roughly $22.2 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $31.5 billion by 2030, a 6.4% annual growth rate (Bainbridge, 2025). Demand is largely non-discretionary and insurance-backed: water, fire, mold, and storm losses require urgent professional repair. Rising billion-dollar weather events, with NOAA recording 27 in 2024 against a long-run average near nine, plus aging housing stock support steady volume. For resale buyers, local demand depends on territory weather exposure, property mix, and competition.

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