Crawl Space Ninja of Fort Smith, AR

It starts from the ground up to create a healthy home. Likewise, a healthy business starts from the ground up. As a franchise opportunity in an underserved sector of the home-improvement and home-repair industry, Crawl Space Ninja is unique. The United States has millions of homes with crawl spaces or basements today, and hundreds of thousands more are being built every year. Because of the dynamic real estate market, the need for inspections, renovations, and unexpected emergencies, Crawl Space Ninja is now available to qualified franchise owners.

Fort Smith is the third-largest city in Arkansas, located in Sebastian County. The population of the city was 89,142 in 2020. The city is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes the Arkansas counties of Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian, and the Oklahoma counties of Le Flore and Sequoyah. The number of homes in this area is estimated at 98,199, with at least 14,730 of them having crawl spaces. Fort Smith's median household income is $46,424. Located at the confluence of the Arkansas and Poteau rivers, Fort Smith is on the Arkansas-Oklahoma state border.

Fort Smith was established as a western frontier military post in 1817, when it was also a center of fur trading. There was a rapid development of the city. With its long history of law enforcement, as well as being a base where migrants were settling in the wild west, the city became well known as a place to settle. There is no doubt that Fort Smith has had a long history as a regional manufacturing center, with major plants operating in the city. Among these companies are Rheem, Trane, Georgia-Pacific, Gerber, Kraft Heinz Company-Planters Peanuts, Mars Petcare, Umarex USA, Graphic Packaging, International Paper, and Pernod Ricard-USA. The city of Fort Smith is home to many corporations, such as Baldor Electric Company, a member of the ABB Group, ArcBest Corporation, and OK Foods, which is a poultry company.

There are generally mild winters in Fort Smith, followed by hot, humid summers. The monthly mean temperature varies from 40.4 degrees Fahrenheit in January to 83.1 degrees Fahrenheit in July; on average, the high temperature stays at or below freezing on 3.8 days, reaches 90 degrees Fahrenheit on 77.8 days, and reaches 100 degrees Fahrenheit on 11.1 days annually. Fort Smith is home to a relatively high level of relative humidity throughout the year, which averages at 67%. As a result, this humid climate creates the ideal conditions for mold spores, allergens, and other pollutants. The combination of these two factors creates the ideal environment for potential crawl space encapsulation sales.