Franchise opportunities for veterans
A Restoration Franchise Founded by Veterans
Our co-founders served in the Marine Corps and the Navy before they built Texas Damage Response. If you’ve served, are getting ready to leave the service or are married to someone who has, and you’re looking at franchise opportunities, we’d like to talk.
What the Work Asks For
Restoration is emergency work. The phone rings at 2 a.m. because a pipe let go, and someone has to show up, size up a bad situation fast and get a crew working before the damage spreads. Then comes the slower part: drying to a measured standard, writing down everything for the homeowner’s insurance carrier and keeping a stressed family informed until the house is back.
That mix of urgency, procedure, documentation and leading a small team on someone else’s worst day is the job. Plenty of people who’ve served will recognize it. You can see how we run it, step by step, on our process page.
What a Location Gets
The opportunity is the same one on our franchise opportunity page: access to referral work from our exclusive agreements with several national plumbing franchises, an established system for building a new location, and founding-owner terms worked out one-on-one with our owner. Like any referral source, the plumbing referrals aren’t guaranteed, and how they flow depends on the market, so we go over your territory with you directly.
Our first locations are founding locations, and the details are still being finalized. Path to ownership lays out the general stages from the first conversation to opening day.
Check Us Out the Way the FTC Recommends
Buying a franchise is a big decision, and we’d rather you make it with your eyes open. The Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer’s Guide to Buying a Franchise (opens in a new tab) is a good place to start. It explains that you must receive a franchisor’s Franchise Disclosure Document at least 14 days before you’re asked to sign anything or pay any money, and it suggests having an accountant review the financial statements in it.
The guide also tells buyers to visit franchised outlets and talk to the owners. We’re opening our first franchise locations, so there are no franchise owners to call yet. What you can do is talk with our founders and see how we run jobs in San Antonio.
For outside help sizing up any business opportunity, ours included, the SBA’s Veterans Business Outreach Center program (opens in a new tab) offers resources to veterans, service members and military spouses who are interested in starting or growing a small business.
Who It’s For
Veterans of any branch, service members planning their transition and military spouses. Some come from restoration or the trades, and others led people or ran operations in uniform and want to do it for themselves. Tell us where you’d like to operate and a little about your background on the inquiry form, and we’ll take it from there.
Want to know who you’d be working with? Our story covers how our co-founders went from military service to building a restoration company.
Questions From Veterans
Terms for our founding owners are worked out one-on-one with our owner, and we don’t publish them here. Nothing is offered or agreed until you’ve received and reviewed our Franchise Disclosure Document.
Not necessarily. Tell us your background on the inquiry form, from the military or anywhere else, and we’ll talk through what our system covers and what it would ask of you.
No. Reaching out starts a conversation and commits you to nothing, so it’s fine to ask questions while you plan your transition.
The FTC’s Consumer’s Guide to Buying a Franchise covers what to check before you buy, and the SBA’s Veterans Business Outreach Center program offers resources to veterans, service members and military spouses interested in starting or growing a small business. An accountant and an attorney of your own are worth bringing in before you sign anything.
This information is not an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, a franchise. An offer can be made only through a Franchise Disclosure Document. Some states require a franchisor to register or file with the state before offering or selling a franchise there. We will not offer or sell a franchise in any such state until we have met that state’s requirements.