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The Maids Inter-national Inc. recently revved up its residentialcleaning service program by offering multiple-territory "MegaMarkets" to interested franchisees. A single territory isdefined as 10,000 homes with incomes over $50,000; a Mega Marketmultiplies that by four.
In July 1999, Terri Stull-Higgins, 43, and Lee Higgins, 47,decided to not only join the company but to take it a step furtherand start a Mega-5, a group of five markets, north of Dallas. Iftheir franchise stopped taking new clients today, it would stillmake $312,000 per year, but the couple won't be slowing downany time soon. "We just started," Lee points out."This business has the potential to be high-dollar andhigh-volume in a short amount of time."
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