An Anytime Fitness franchise location in Delaware files a $25,000 surety bond with the Division of Consumer Protection before selling memberships — ours is $250 flat, and the price you see is the checkout price. The application includes a credit consent, but it authorizes a soft credit pull only — a soft inquiry that never affects your score.
















A franchise health club bond filing is short. Here's the entire process:
Business details, your Anytime Fitness contract date, and an effective date. A short credit consent runs alongside it, authorizing a soft pull only.
Health club bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your health spa registration. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
Delaware regulates health spas — clubs and studios selling prepaid membership or fitness-service contracts — under its Health Spa Regulation Act (Title 6, Chapter 42), administered by the Division of Consumer Protection within the Delaware Department of Justice. The Act conditions the sale of pre-opening and membership contracts on a surety bond or letter of credit filed with the Director, protecting members if a club fails to open or substantially fails to deliver the services sold.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the Director acting for the State (the obligee), with paying members as the protected parties. If a covered club closes early or doesn't deliver, a member with a valid claim can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. This filing carries a $25,000 penal sum specific to the Anytime Fitness franchise arrangement; a standalone Delaware health spa's statutory bond is $50,000. We track your term and notify you 60 and 30 days out to keep the filing continuous.
These are the actual issuing fields — a short credit consent runs alongside them, authorizing a soft pull only.
Start the application →$250 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.