HouseMaster : Top-3 Franchisee Cesar Costa Calls HouseMaster a 10-Year Shortcut
How to use this video
This video features insights from a current franchisee sharing their experience with the HouseMaster franchise. As you watch, listen for details about daily involvement, support, and challenges as well as successes. If this perspective resonates, the next step is to request more information and speak directly with the franchisor.
About This Video
Hear HouseMaster franchise owner Cesar Costa of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, walk through six years of ownership—from leaving corporate work in Brazil and immigrating to the U.S., through launching a HouseMaster franchise, to being named a top-three franchisee with a multi-service home-inspection practice across South Florida. Costa's path into ownership was driven by frustration with corporate compensation. He had closed a $200M contract for his prior employer; the recognition was a 3% salary increase. The arithmetic of working hard for someone else's enterprise stopped making sense, so he committed to opening his own business and timed it with his immigration to the United States. The Neighborly platform was decisive at startup. New franchise owners need access to suppliers and vendors, the playbooks for marketing and promotion, and the operational systems that turn a license into a working business. HouseMaster, backed by Neighborly, gave Costa all of that on day one. As he frames it: when you take a franchise, you take on the learning of someone who has done it before—it's a 10-year shortcut compressed into one. Costa has expanded service breadth aggressively. Beyond standard property inspection, he is a certified mold assessor, a pest-control operator, a certified residential thermographer, a certified sewer-camera inspector, and a certified drone pilot. That stack lets him offer essentially every inspection-adjacent service buyers and Realtors look for, which has been a key driver of his top-three franchisee performance. On the cultural side, Costa highlights the Neighborly network: friendly people, open hearts, peers who actively want each other to succeed. The financial outcome reflects the operating model—he describes earning enough to afford education for his kids, buy a house, and establish life in the U.S. This watch page surfaces a multi-service, high-performer testimonial for HouseMaster prospects evaluating home-inspection franchise opportunities.