The Anago Cleaning Systems franchise website boasts that it has been named by Entrepreneur magazine as 5th fastest growing franchise in 2010, and that it is “ahead of the competition due to the availability of profitable markets throughout the nation.”
Like most commercial cleaning franchises (janitorial franchises), Anago Cleaning Systems offers both “Master” franchise opportunities and “Unit” franchise opportunities. According to the Anago website:
“An Anago Master Franchisor has exclusive rights to a defined territory. The Master sells and trains Unit Franchisees throughout the territory. The Master also obtains cleaning contracts to be serviced by the Unit Franchisees. A Master Franchise candidate should have a strong sales & marketing background
An Anago Unit Franchisee owns his or her own cleaning business, and the business can be started with a minimal investment.”
However, unhappy franchisee commenters have posted complaints about the Anago Cleaning Systems franchise opportunity, with some claiming the Coverall franchise is a scam.
In December, 2009, commenter “holy one” wrote on the Complaints Board website:
“I thought my family and I were making a great move by purchasing into Anago not true. This is the worst experience I have ever gone throug they promise cleaning contracts never fulfill their mission. We invested $9, 000 into this company guess how many contracts we recieved 2 that’s right. Guess how much a total of 1300.00. Please do not invest with Anago please pass the word they are a noncompliant company here in atlanta GA their out to take your money.
More recently (on the same board) “Coverall Franchise owner/until expires” wrote:
I totally agree with the complains. I am a franchise owner myself. they are totally liers. I made a contract for $20k, I gave $14.000 downpayment and we agree that I was going to pay the rest each month /deducted from my paycheck. I though I was going to get my acconts (offices to clean) in one month. But, they made me wait about a year, plus I was making $9 dollars per hour (fast and hard work) and I did not had any money to hired an employee to help me. How much I was supposed to pay if I hire one? 1 dollar? THEY ARE SCAMMERS. Yes, they are in the forbes magazine, of course because they make money but franchises dont. they will take you money and make you work like crazy. they also charge for administration but you are the one who has to comfront the office owners if something is wrong or if you want them to increase your payment because you are working extra hours. DONT MAKE ANY CONTRACT WITH THEM, They are not good, this business is not worth it at all. I am totally dissapointed :(
on the same board, jjamiranda wrote that all janitorial franchises, not just Coverall, are scams:
I bought a franchise with Anago in 2006 and when I started everything sounded great – when I actually started doing the "real thing" it was different than what I was told in my initial interview- so the first 6 months I didn’t make any return on my investment (I was spending more money than expected or than I was making) – I had complaints from companies and lots of various problems – the whole conversion into franchise owner was very unorganized and chaotic – it made me very upset and frustrated.
After a year or so I began to understand why I was having all those problems and most of the problems were because I simply did not read the contract – although the person I bought the franchise from did not supply me with the training necessary to begin my journey after we worked it out everything began to get better and I began to learn and make good money.
Being a franchise owner is NOT for everyone no matter if it’s a cleaning company or a restaurant – you have to posess the certain skills and determination to keep trucking along when times are tough and become the proper business owner that you need to be.
The thing to make you successful at anything in life -not just this is to read and constantly develop your personal skills on every spectrum of learning – from managerial skills to business knowledge in general – building your self esteem as a business owner will put you leaps and bounds in front of others.
A franchise is a learning experience – in the first half of it – consider yourself an employee you are still learning THEIR system and training and developing the skills – it is not until YOU learn how to work and run the system for YOU that you become a business owner and start making the system work for you instead of against you.
Anago is a good starting point for any franchise owner – it allows you to get in cheap and develop your necessary skills to make more than you have put in – in a short period of time compared to other big name mainstream franchises. I learnt how to make my franchise system work for me and with me beside me at all times – I hope you can too – the key = learn the system.
NEVER quit – or give up – let your obstacles guide you in a new direction – good luck!
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Also read:
JANI-KING Franchise Complaints
JAN-PRO: Janitorial Franchise Warning
FTC Guide to Buying a Janitorial Services Franchise
FTC’s Janitorial Franchise Buyer’s Guide
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I WORKED FOR ANAGO FOR OVER 3 YEARS. FIRST AT SELLING THE SERVICE THEN AS A REGIONAL DIRECTOR SELLING THE FRANCHISE. WHAT AN EYE OPENER. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND PURCHASING AN ANAGO FRANCHISE. THEY ARE ONLY OUT TO STEAL YOUR MONEY. THEY USE COMPLAINT FEES AND TELL YOU THAT YOU FAILED TO FUFILL YOUR END OF THE CONTRACT. PEOPLE ARE LOOSING THEIR HOMES IN OUR STATE AND THE AUTO INDUSRTRY IS FAILING AND ANAGO THINKS THEY CAN JUST CASH IN ON PEOPLE TAKING BUY OUTS FROM THE BIG 3.
THEY TEACH YOU HOW TO TALK AND WALK THE WALK AND IF YOU DO NOT CONFORM TO THEIR WAY OF STEALING THEY GET RID OF YOU.
IT GOES AGAINST MY ETHICS TO "STEAL" FROM PEOPLE. SO I QUIT.
THEY PAY THEIR REGIONAL DIRECTORS AND STAFF VERY WELL. LOOK OUT MARY BARKER IF YOU DO BUY A FRANCHISE FROM ANAGO SHE IS THEIR CO PLAINCE OFFICER AND WILL FIND AWAY TO STEAL FROM YOU.
My husband and i put down 1500.00 down for Clean Net USA. We finished the 2 wk class still got no responds on our contracts.
I purchased a franchise with anago about 3 years ago.I put down 15,000 dollars,had to wait about 3months before receiving anything.The places we were cleaning had no complaints at all,but it just seems like Dave and Bill were basically complaining themselves to get rid of me, to give the contract to another person so that they can make more money off it.Telling me they lost a contract,but weeks later the same place they said they lost called me talking about we left the keys.So all they did was give that contract to a new franchise.You wont wake as much as they say you will,but as you see they are making BIG money off of your services.While you basically lose everything and go bust.They dont care neither,never gave me a call about getting anything else,MONEY WAS JUST GONE.I had a friend call me a few days ago and you were right they done me the same way.So it wouldnt be wise to spend your hard earned cash with them because they are out for them selves,they care nothing about you.
Hello, I just want to say that Anago is the worst company to invest in,They only want i s to get your money promesing you a lot if pretty things,but once they got you they don't care about you.Also,they don't fill your package as it should be.I bought with them at the end of 2009 and still thay haven't fill my package.
ANAGO CLEANING SERVICES IS A BIG SCAM DO NOT GIVE YOUR MONEY TO THEM!!!!!!THIS GUY FROM ORLANDO MANUEL KUBOYAMA"OPERATIONS MANAGER " WHICH HE REALLY IS THE OWNER OF ORLANDO CENTER HE IS A LIAR.
It seems like all of these fake cleaning franchises are all a scam. All of us who have been riped-0ff by cleaning franchisors need to come together. You should file a complaint with the FTC Federal trade commision. http://www.FTC.Gob You should also file a complaint with the Attorney General.
I'm a lead plaintiff in a national class action lawsuit againts jan-pro. I have heard the same stories from people that had a franchise with jan-pro, coverall, cleannet, and janiking.
We need to all come together. You can find my e-mail adress on http://www.complaintsboard.com under the jan-pro complaint and I think we should start a page on Facebook.com on all of these rip-off cleaning franchisors.
Please go to http://www.franchiserimes.com and read the following article
"Taking off the Gloves"
1st amendment: REALLY aren't you getting tired yet. Same old stuff, now you are wanting to start a "facebook" page. Oh come on, who wants to see your smiling face full of monkey pooh!!!!
Here you go again, giving hope to the hopeless, spreading the fact that you are the lead plantiff in a lawsuit against one of the big "3" what's your contingency plan as you talked about on the other posts. You and your minions with SEIU money going after the "tier two" or "tier three" companies!
Please say it isn't so! Am I going to have to type all of this "stuff" all over again, Can you teach me how to "cut and paste"!
To the people of Anago there is a troll here who works for jan-pr. he says that his name is jerry ?? and that he is from Indiana ?? He works for jan-pro and the other cleaning franchisors he is getting paid to come in here and attack us. He does this 7 days a week 24 hours a day. He is getting paid allot of money $$$$$$
Don't let him intimidate you. You all need to unite and stop these franchisors from ripping of any more people.
1st amendment, Jerry "v", Iloveamerica and friend of "guest":
Could you please make up your mind, on one site you call me a "monkey", on another site you call me a "troll" when you keep calling me different names, I get confused!
Getting paid by Jan-Pro and the other cleaning franchisors REALLY! I didn't know that, wish it were true, but its not. Can you say the same thing? How about your "pimping" your attorneys, drinking and eating with the SEIU membership etc... Think there's only one of us getting PAID! I know it's not me!!!!!!
Intimidation tactics, REALLY!!! Was I the one that attempted to close down multiple cleaning companies, was I the one that followed teenagers to school calling their father name's and threatening them with posters and signs, was I the one wanting "secret ballots taken", was I the one intimidating management and employees of a "traditional company"? NO, it was your "friends" of the SEIU against David Bego and EMS!!!! These are facts, not lies, not misdirection, not misstatments of facts.
Need to try harder.
To jerry ?? From Indiana ??
So now your mad because I posted an article that I saw on the internet on how some people who had a job for over 20 years got laid of and the company that they worked for hired a fake cleaning franchise to replace them.
Do you know why they did that ?
Because this way they dont have to pay for workers compensation or any benefits ay all.
To jerry ?? From Indiana ?? What if they shiped your job to someone in bangledash? What if they did it to your Mom or family, then you would feel diferent wouldn't you!
This company that laid off it's employees wont pay no benefits, no Taxes, no workers compensation and now they can abuse the people who bought the fake franchise! The fake cleaning franchise will do it for any low badly underbid price and the people who bought the fake franchise gets screwed. The people who got laid of get screewed and now they have to collect unemployment. The American Taxpayer gets screwed and the only ones that made money is the fake cleaning franchise.
1st amendment, Jerry "v", Friend of "guest", IloveAmerca!!!!:
I'm not mad that you "cut and paste" it just lacks original thought. Then I read your "original thought" and wish you would "cut and paste" more. But i digress.
Your "reason" for the "cut and paste" is my problem. Admit that you are an SEIU "stooge", admit your attorneys are being "financed" by SEIU union dues, admit that you have an "agenda" other than the one you "proclaim". That is my problem. YOUR DISHONEST!!!!!!
Bangledash, REALLY!!!! Ok, if they want our "cleaning jobs" go ahead and take them, not sure how they are going to clean "long distance" but I'm on the "short bus" again.
American Taxpayer is getting screwed by you, people like you, illegal aliens, attorneys, SEIU and others. Your biggest problem is "standing" "validity of argument" and oh here's another one "current law". Franchising companies have been in business for nearly 50 years, want to get technical, over 50 years if you count ServiceMaster in the mix. By the way, do you know what ServiceMaster stands for? Service to the Master. No, not the master franchisor, to God Almighty!