How to Buy a Curves Franchise for $1.00… or Less!
(FranchisePick.Com) Do you dream of joining the fastest growing franchise system in history, of owning your own Curves for Women 30 minute fitness franchise… but you only have a dollar? No Problem!
You CAN own a Curves fitness franchise for less than the cost of a Big Mac.
I will tell you the secret as long as you promise to you must promise to appear on my upcoming infomercial (Sean Kelly’s 36-Cassette No-Money Down Wealth Building Franchise Secrets!) and read whatever comes over the teleprompter verbatim, no questions asked.
On the Curves resales website, there are approximately a 1.2 jillion established Curves franchise clubs the franchise owners are trying to unload, I mean, willing to part with. Here are a few lower cost examples:
EXAMPLES OF LOW COST CURVES FRANCHISES FOR SALE
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$1.00 or less: DeQuincy, Louisiana $1.00* Make An Offer Best Offer Peculiar, MO** $10,000 or less $5,000.00 Glendale AZ $9,900.00 Rochester Hills MI $10,000.00 Sterling MA $10,000.00 Oxford CT $10,000.00 Must Sell, IN*** |
$20,000 or less $16,000.00 Grafton OH $18,000.00 Lake Mills IA $19,000.00 Huron OH $19,000.00 Cherry Hill NJ $20,000.00 Tyngsborough MA $20,000.00 Port St. Lucie, FL $22,000.00 Lancaster PA******
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$15,000 or less $11,500.00 Waterford CA $12,000.00 Lowell MA $12,000.00 Lancaster PA***** $12,500.00 Reedsport OR $13,500.00 Sartell MN $13,500.00 San Antonio TX $15,000.00 Lavonia GA $15,000.00 Waipahu HI***** $15,000.00 Brooklyn NY $15,000.00 Hot Springs, Wy****** |
$25,000 or less $21,000.00 red bud IL $24,900.00 Cape Coral FL $25,000.00 Bay Minette AL $25,000.00 Superior CO 1k down, 1k mo $25,000.00 Fort Myers FL
NOTES * Or best offer. ** Clientele is a tad… odd. *** Possible typo **** Amish customer base. Low electric bill. ***** As seen on DOG The Bounty hunter ****** SmartCurve Hydraulic bullrider very popular ****** Proud Sponsors of World Whoopie Pie Eating Championship |
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Why are Curves Owners Selling so Cheaply?
Why are these franchise owners selling? Isn’t it obvious?
Some want to pursue other interests, like spending the wealth they’ve amassed.
Some want more time with family, spending time together spending the wealth they’ve amassed.
And others just want to share their good fortune… with you!
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8 opinions for How to Buy a Curves Franchise for $1.00… or Less!
Carol Cross
Apr 23, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Curves looks like it is going down the tube and all of those poor souls who invested their faith and money will suffer great financial losses. Obviously, you could buy a Curves for $1.00 or less from some poor distressed franchisee who wants to get out from underneath the personal guarantee on the ten-year lease they signed.
Is Curves still selling franchises and is Curves still on the SBA franchise registry?
The trouble with franchising is that the franchisors always saturate the markets with the same or a similar concept and hide the great risk of the investment from the new buyer until everyone fails —even the franchisor.
Greed is not always good. $1.00 for a Curves is too much!
sean
Apr 23, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Carol:
It’s even worse than that. Curves Int’l requires a $10,000 fee for closing your club. That’s right, a $10K Loser Tax.
Imagine the feeling of trying to save up $10,000 so you can close your club?
Curves is unparalleled in its ability to charge on the front end and on the backend.
Sadderbutwiser
Apr 26, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Our relative who was a former co-owner bought our two clubs last year for 50 cents each in exchange for not suing us, despite our warnings that the clubs were losing money. She and her husband already owned another club out west they had picked up for $1.
Since then, they’ve closed the $1 club and are struggling to keep our old clubs open.
They were warned, but didn’t listen.
sean
Apr 26, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Sadderbutwiser:
Pretty bad when you can’t make a $1.00 club work.
Why were they going to sue? Something club-related?
Sounds like your relative overpaid for the clubs (!)
Sadderbutwiser
Apr 27, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Breach of contract. We overpaid to buy out the relative’s share of the two clubs we co-owned together, foolishly using our home equity after they threatened an INITIAL lawsuit if we didn’t go through with it. When we couldn’t make payments, they threatened a SECOND lawsuit if we didn’t surrender the clubs. So we did. Now it’s their nightmare. We’ve got our own to deal with, like moving out of the only home our young children have ever known.
sean
Apr 28, 2008 at 7:40 am
Sadderbutwiser: Sorry to hear about both those tragedies: moving out of your home and having your family at odds over a business deal. With all these expensive lessons, we should be geniuses any day now… hang in there.
Marc
Jun 16, 2008 at 11:08 am
Is this for real , ?? 1 $ club ?? I understand that your $ value is low but wow! and also is this 10,000$ closing fee a urban legend? someone that is able to make people sign a franchise agreement with a clause like this is GOOD!! if Curves goes down I am shure that a lot of used car lot will hire him !! or her..
Dorothy vonFriewalde
Jul 23, 2008 at 5:52 am
I am in the process of “selling” my club for the sum of $10k, under duress from McCord. I brought the buyer to the table and Curves talked her into going through McCord,circumventing me altogether. So now they are taking thier fee of 5k leaving me a sum of 5k, after 1k transfer fee and $1800 escrow fee. The poor woman thought she was doing me a favor going through them. They lied to her and to me. Now we can’t get out of it. So I am going to strip my club down to just the basic circuit and the member files. These poor people aqre going to have to buy furniture, computers, music etc. One of the new owners is a memeber already in my club. My landlords are being stupid, not wanting to concede to lower rent and cosmetic upgrades and the a/c needing to be replaced, what I have been complaining of for four years. Now she will probably have an empty building, and will come after me for the remainder of the lease. I had decided to close on July 31, 2008 when the buyer came forward. Then the strong arming began. I will have a mutual release from my 10year agreement, so they say, that’s if they haven’t lied about that. My territory should be closed and never re-opened, but you know it’s all about the money and not the franchisees. Gary Heavin is a liar and all his henchmen will answer someday for thier deceptions and thievery. I am so tired after four years, I can’t wait to get out and not look back. I hate the word Curves or any reasonable facsimile thereof.
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