North Carolina Anytime Fitness franchise bonds.
$250 flat.
Selling prepaid health-club memberships at a North Carolina Anytime Fitness location means posting a $25,000 surety bond with the Attorney General under North Carolina's prepaid entertainment contracts law — ours is $250 flat, and the price you see is the checkout price.
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How much does a North Carolina Anytime Fitness franchise bond cost?
$250 at the $25,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps. One sitting.
A prepaid-entertainment bond like this is one of the simpler filings 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
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 the Attorney General
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the NC Attorney General's office and with your Anytime Fitness franchise paperwork. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
North Carolina regulates prepaid health-club memberships under the Prepaid Entertainment Contracts article of the General Statutes (Chapter 66, Article 21). Before selling a contract for services available on the day of sale, a seller must post a surety bond in favor of the State of North Carolina, in a form approved by the Attorney General, equal to the greater of your outstanding member liabilities or $10,000, up to a $250,000 cap per facility. This SKU is the $25,000 amount our carrier packages for Anytime Fitness franchise locations, which sits inside that statutory range.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal, the franchise location), the surety carrier, and the State of North Carolina (the obligee), with your members as the protected interest. A member damaged by the closing of your facility or your bankruptcy can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The statute directs filing with the Attorney General within 90 days of your first membership sale and updated filings at 180-day intervals after that, so keep your bond current and confirm your specific filing amount and schedule with the Attorney General's office and your Anytime Fitness franchise consultant.
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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 the Attorney General. Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the NC Attorney General's office and with your Anytime Fitness franchise paperwork. 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 authorizes a soft pull only.
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$250 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.