Operating an Anytime Fitness location in Louisiana means posting a $25,000 surety bond under your franchise agreement — 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 — no hard inquiry ever runs on this bond.
















A franchise-agreement bond like this is one of the simpler filings in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details, your Anytime Fitness contract date, and an effective date. That's the application.
Franchise 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 submit as part of your Anytime Fitness location paperwork. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
Louisiana's own consumer-protection statute for prepaid fitness services, R.S. 51:1582, separately requires a health, fitness, or exercise center that sells prepaid or credit contracts longer than one month to maintain a $25,000 surety bond, CD, or irrevocable letter of credit with the state treasurer — but that filing is a separate question from the bond in front of you. This $25,000 figure is fixed by your Anytime Fitness franchise agreement, and it ships identically across every state's Anytime Fitness product regardless of that state's own health-club law.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal, the franchisee), the surety carrier, and Anytime Fitness or its designated affiliate (the obligee on this particular bond), with the franchise system and its members as the protected interest. If a franchisee fails to meet the obligations the bond covers, a claim can be made against it up to $25,000.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Keep a copy of this bond alongside your franchise agreement and any state-treasurer filing your location also needs under R.S. 51:1582, since the two obligations can run in parallel. Confirm the current required amount and the correct obligee for each with your franchisor and, separately, with the Louisiana treasurer's office before you apply.
These are the actual issuing fields, including your Anytime Fitness contract date. The credit section authorizes a soft pull only.
Start the application →$250 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.