Arkansas health club bonds.
$250 flat.
Opening or renewing an Anytime Fitness franchise location in Arkansas requires a $25,000 health club bond — ours is $250 flat, and the price you see is the checkout price. The application includes a credit consent, but it authorizes a soft pull only — never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
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How much does an Arkansas health club bond cost?
$250 at the $25,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps. One sitting.
A franchise health club bond is about the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details, your Anytime Fitness contract date, and an effective date. That's the application.
Pay & e-sign
This bond is among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. Issued when you pay. One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
File it with your paperwork
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your franchise opening or renewal packet. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
This is the $25,000 health club bond the Anytime Fitness franchise system requires of a franchisee opening or renewing a location — including in Arkansas. It guarantees the franchisee's obligations to members: refunds, prepaid dues, and the club's compliance with its own membership contracts.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the franchisee, the principal), the surety carrier, and the party the bond protects — members and, depending on the filing, Anytime Fitness Franchising, LLC as the named obligee. If a covered claim arises — a member denied a refund the contract owes them, for example — the harmed party can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Arkansas's own Health Spa Consumer Protection Act (Ark. Code § 4-94-101 et seq.) requires a health spa to file a registration statement with the Secretary of State naming its ownership and facilities, but that statute does not itself mandate a surety bond — the $25,000 bond requirement here comes from the Anytime Fitness franchise agreement, not a state bonding statute. Confirm the exact obligee and filing requirement your franchise packet names before applying — we'll issue to match it.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the $25,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose; a longer term is the same price per year, chosen at checkout.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
File it with your paperwork. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your franchise opening or renewal packet. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $250 at the $25,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields, including your Anytime Fitness contract date — the credit section is a soft-pull consent only.
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$250 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.