Vanguard Cleaning Systems is ranked by Entrepreneur magazine as the #7 franchise in the nation. (Seriously? Vanguard beat out Subway? Dunkin’ Donuts? Hilton hotels?)
Entrepreneur magazine also named Vanguard Cleaning Systems its #1 Low-Cost Franchises and #1 Home-Based Franchises.
Wow! Vanguard Cleaning Systems franchise ranking gave us a serious WTF? (Why This Franchise?) moment. Could it be that Vanguard was an actual legitimate commercial cleaning franchise?
UnhappyFranchisee.com decided to scour the web to find out what was so special about this particular janitorial franchise to receive such high praise when their janitorial franchise competitors were being branded as scams and ripoffs.
If you’ve had any experience with Vanguard Cleaning Systems – good or bad – please share a comment below.
On Webanswers.com, bmorrison wrote:
Yes, they do receive alot of fees. With Vanguard Cleaning System/Services, Besides the high cost of buying the contract through them, they get 15% a month from each contract you get from them, and they don’t even protect you or care for you when there’s a complaint even though it’s not your fault. They’ll pick the client over you any given time. They are even the first one to accuse you of doing something wrong. They seem motivated and/or more interested in you losing the contract maybe it’s because not only they get to keep your money that you use to buy the contract but they can sell the contract again to another franchisee for the same amount you bought the contract for if not more. And they continue to get their 15% cut a month. Sweet huh?! Please do an extensive research first especially the janitorial company. One important advice, DON’T GO AND SIGN UP WITH VANGUARD CLEANING SYSTEM !
rusty22 wrote:
Yes 10,000 they give you contracts you have to buy.+ they get 15% off the top on each one.They start you off ok ,then they swamp you with work.And you can’t do a proper job. You can only turn down two. After a time they go around and ask your customer if everything is ok,but they are trying to get them to change to a differant vanguard franchise so they can keep the money rolling in. You will never own the contract. And the mistery deductions never will they itemize.
cleaninglady wrote:
If you can turn away from this company- Do so! Not only the staff are very rude and unprofessional.. their only concern is getting their money. The Vanguard staff are nice in the beginning, until you buy their franchise and they’ll just don’t give a %&^8 anymore. My advice- buy mine! because, I want to get away from their @ss3S! lolz.
MiSTaHTeeZaH wrote:
I’ve been with vangaurd(TAMPA FL AREA) for about 4 years…They arent worth a Sh*t….They’re never on your side…takes them forever to get you to the volume you paid for…They deduct from you even if you dont have your full volume…They sale you CHEAP useless equipment for the most part…And they dont care if you get paid a fair amount on the buildings they bid on…(THEY BID EXTRA LOW)…so if you plan on hiring people on,dont deal with them because you wont be able to afford it…Also after they get your money that you needed to start up the franchise,its hard to catch up with them…i wish i would have stayed on my nine to five and kept my money where it was…I know there other things to invest in..
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Thanks everyone for helping me do not get involved with Vanguard! It is an embarrassment for a business to be lead by scammers! I will invest my money in something else.
I purchased a franchise about six years ago and it start off good at first then I started getting accounts and gaining employees but the accounts were not enough to pay employees and make a profit.
Now I find myself juggling a business and a family and then I couldn't get employees or find people to do the work but vanguard didn't care they kept offering me more accounts until I had to bring my wife and young children in to work to maintain the 15 percent owed to them and see enough to live on until findly I couldn't have my disabled wife and young children help anymore
I found myself working 19 to 20 hours a day with no relief they had me to the point where if I lost a accounts of 1000 they replace it with a two or three hundred a month accounts I can't keep taking losses like that with small mouth to feed but told me and my wife we need have other preorder we look at each other and like what have we got are selves onto to
my divorce me took the children I try to run the business alone for 2 years until exhaustan and 19 to 20 hour nights findly took there toll. vanguard released me from my accounts and sold them to another franchise owner where has that left me well my home has been foreclosed on I have lost my family I sleep in my van I barely have enough to eat some days after all the work and hundreds of thousands of dollars I made for this company the day I left out of this company
tell karl with a sarcastic sound so if you don't want your life ruined steer clear of this company I also will be reporting this the BBB thank anyone for listening
I had a franchise with them
They lie They are rude. They under bid
They cuss at you. They are the worst if anyone wants to hear about my experience with them feel free to email me
Here's the thing. I had a franchise with Jani-King and Coverall in Cleveland. All these franchise models are the same. Read the contracts.....have a lawyer read your contract. They are going to take 30% of your pay for franchise fees and insurance, so the last thing you need is to finance your franchise thru them and have another monthly payment. But if you have to finance your franchise thru them you are going to need to work another job until that is paid off(that's what I did, it took me a year). But you don't have to get the insurance thru them.....you don't have to buy your supplies thru them....you don't have to buy their equipment....do your research...you'll get it cheaper elsewhere. I had to close my first franchise thru Jani-king because I bought all the equipment they told me to buy and had so many monthly payments that I was only making $6.00 an hour, and I didn't even need half that stuff. When I bought my Coverall franchise, I was so much smarter. I bought a sweeper and some mops and buckets.....probably spent $500.00, that was all I needed. Any floor machines I needed, I rented from the local machine rental store. I did very well with that franchise....but I didn't wait for them to find me accounts.....I went out and got them myself! You can do that! I also never let my accounts call into the office when there was a problem....they called me directly, and I was there within 2 hours to fix the problem and sit down and talk to them. Good luck everyone!