IME affiliate bonds.
From $100. Enter your amount.
Installation Made Easy, Inc. (IME) is a nationwide network that places flooring installation work with independent contractors. Joining as an Affiliate requires posting a surety bond running to IME as obligee — a condition of your vendor agreement, not a government filing. Premium is priced at 1% of the bond amount, $100 minimum — enter the bond amount your vendor agreement specifies and your exact price appears at the application.
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A vendor bond like this one is ordinary commercial surety — no committee, no financial package at a routine amount. Here is the whole thing:
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Your entity type and FEIN (or your name and SSN if you apply as an individual), owner details, and the bond amount your Affiliate agreement specifies. The form closes with a credit consent that authorizes a soft inquiry only.
Issued the moment you pay
Vendor bonds at routine amounts approve on the spot, and the executed bond generates as soon as payment clears. The consent authorizes a soft credit pull only — a soft inquiry that never affects your score. A large penal sum can draw a short review before the bond releases.
Send it to IME
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to send to Installation Made Easy, Inc. so your network placements can start or continue uninterrupted. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the IME Affiliate bond actually guarantees
Installation Made Easy, Inc. (IME) does not employ its own installation crews — it places flooring installation jobs with a nationwide network of independent contractors who sign on as vendors. An Affiliate is one of the vendor tiers in that network, and IME conditions Affiliate status on posting this bond.
The bond is the performance half of that arrangement: it protects IME and the customer whose floor gets installed. If an Affiliate’s work falls short of IME’s or the customer’s standards, IME can claim against the bond for the resulting costs, losses, or damages. It is the usual three-party arrangement — you (the principal), the surety carrier, and IME as the obligee — and it is not insurance for you: if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety.
Because no statute requires this bond, IME — not a legislature — sets the penal sum. Bond amounts on this program generally run from a few thousand dollars up to $100,000, sized to the volume and scope of installation work an Affiliate takes on. Enter the amount your vendor agreement specifies; we price it at 1% of that figure, $100 minimum — the application includes a soft-pull credit consent only, never a hard inquiry.
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One application, issued the moment you pay.
These are the actual issuing fields — entity type and FEIN (or your name and SSN if you apply as an individual), owner details, and the bond amount your Affiliate agreement specifies. The form closes with a consent that authorizes a soft credit inquiry only.
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From $100, priced at 1% of the bond amount. Enter the amount your agreement specifies and send the executed bond to IME the same day. Free until issued.