Connecticut Anytime Fitness health club bonds.
$250 flat.
This is the standard $25,000 bond for an Anytime Fitness franchise location under Connecticut's Health Club Act, which the Department of Consumer Protection enforces. It is the location's own filing, not the statutory $125,000 bond a club barred from the Health Club Guaranty Fund must post (CGS § 21a-226). Ours is $250 flat.
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How much does a Connecticut Anytime Fitness 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 is the application — no financials, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
Franchise health club bonds like this are 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 with DCP
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Department of Consumer Protection or hand to your franchisor as proof of compliance. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Connecticut's Health Club Act (Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 21a-216 through 21a-230) puts the Department of Consumer Protection in charge of licensing health clubs and protecting members who pay for memberships in advance. The statute's main financial backstop is the Connecticut Health Club Guaranty Fund — clubs pay into it, and a club barred from the fund must instead post a guaranty bond satisfying the commissioner. This $25,000 bond is the compliance instrument Anytime Fitness uses for its Connecticut franchise locations to document that security to the state and to the franchisor.
It's a three-party arrangement: the franchise location (the principal), the surety carrier, and the party named as obligee on the bond form, with members as the people the bond is meant to protect. If the club closes early, fails to provide contracted services, or otherwise breaches its membership obligations in a way the bond covers, a harmed member can make a claim.
It is not insurance for the franchisee — if the surety pays a claim, the location repays the surety. We name the exact obligee your franchise paperwork or DCP filing calls for, and track the term so the bond stays continuous while you operate the location.
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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 with DCP. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Department of Consumer Protection or hand to your franchisor as proof of compliance. 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 — the credit consent checkbox only authorizes a soft pull, never a hard inquiry.
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$250 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.