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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This company is a SCAM!!!! I hired them to clean my 1 bedroom apartment. I made an appointment to come clean my apartment one day and they never showed up! On top of insult we rescheduled an earlier time and they showed up ONE HOUR LATE!!! (Needless to say I was late for work, but they didn't care or compensate for my loss). The company sent over 2 cleaning personnel instead of 1 (which I don't know why...I have a 800SQ apartment). THEN...they tried to extort $140 to clean my tiny apartment...once I said absolutely not they dropped the price to $80. The entire time they were there one person was standing around while the other worked and all they did was talk and talk.....ABSURD! I was ripped off and lied to! DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY...STAY FAR FAR AWAY!!!
I WORKED AT THE JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA LOCATION (TERRY MOLLICA) THE OFFICE MANAGER JOHANNA RAMIREZ IS A NASTY BITCH SHE TALK & TREAT PEOPLE LIKE SHIT. I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST SPANISH PEOPLE , BUT THAT'S ALL WHO SHE WANTS TO CATER TO. SHE IS DEFINITELY PREJUDICE I'M AFRICAN AMERICAN AND SHE HAVE MADE SOME RACIAL REMARKS TO ME. I CURRENTLY HAVE A LAWSUIT AGAINST THEM. , BUT THEY ARE SCAMMERS TO ALL THEIR EMPLOYEES FRANCHISE , SALES PEOPLE , TELEMARKETERS. ETC. I TOOK MORE THAN ENOUGH COMPLAINTS FROM CLIENTS AND FRANCHISEES. ANAGO DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYONE THEY JUST WANT YOUR MONEY. DON'T INVEST IN THIS COMPANY.
I wish i had seen these comments before i invested....everything that had been said here is all true....im not a business owner im a glorified worker ....im making less than i what i did at my old job and i was just a dish washer so it wasnt much already...i was promised big contracts that never existed and all types of big money jobs that i feel were kept to the closest of there elite circle of friends like stripping and buffing floors....im in such regret......if you have that money just take it and make your own business and find your own clients atleast you will be your own boss.....dont do it
Stay away from anago this company is one big scam just ask the franchise owners in indiana they packed up in the middle of the night and left with out paying there franchises owners, when in fact there clients did pay for services anago never informed there clients either .stay away from anago Any where in Ohio and Kentucky they are the same owners I suggest staying away from the whole anago system they are all frauds
Yes I'm a franchisee currently with Anago & I agree that this is a RIP off company & actually ALL Sub Contractors are not what they seem to be at first the only people that gets the good accounts are the ones who are in the buddy circle or kiss their asses Circle. If it wasn't for me being loyal to the 3 accounts I currently have I wouldn't deal with Anago period they are out to make money for themselves not for the franchisees themselves & truthfully they need to be out of business nationwide & franchisees should be awarded all their money for the buildings they clean Anago is worse than CleanNet & that says a lot about these Companies like Anago they rip off artists & can't stand to hear the truth about themselves
I've been a franchise owner over 5 years in Cleveland Ohio. I also was the franchise owner of the year a couple years ago.
My complaint with the Master franchisees. vice president Chasity schafer Very rude disrespectful and always have a badd attitude every time I speak with her. Her attitude is so badd I don't even take contracts anymore. I was revenue over 11000 a month now I revenue $2000 with and ago of Cleveland. Worst experience I ever made in my life. And I'm sure as soon as she see this email I am probably going to be penalize in some kind of way. 1st thing she's going to say is I'm childish for expressing my personal feelings.
ifpg represents this franchise. no vetting just grabs the fee and posts. many failing and less than acceptable franchisers part of ifpg.
As a franchise owner, Anago Cleaning Systems is the worst cleaning company I ever experienced in the business of the cleaning franchising industry. Extremely poor management and performance. Never received accurate payments. They were always short on pay and there was always a discrepancy. They breached our contract. In addition, they can take your accounts away in give them to other franchise owners if they don't like you or if another owner pays more for their franchise. #ANAGO CLEANING SERVICES IS A BIG SCAM DO NOT GIVE YOUR MONEY TO THEM!
Como propietario de una franquicia, Anago Cleaning Systems es la peor empresa de limpieza que he experimentado en el negocio de la industria de franquicia de limpieza. Empresa extremadamente pobre en la administración y su desempeño. Nunca recibimos pagos precisos. Siempre eran de bajo sueldo y siempre había una discrepancia. Ellos incumplieron nuestro contrato. Además, pueden quitar sus cuentas en darlas a otros propietarios de franquicias si no les gustas o si otro propietario paga más por su franquicia. #ANAGO CLEANING SERVICES ES UNA GRAN ESTAFA ¡NO LES DES TU DINERO!
What a problem with "ANAGO CLEANING SERVICES "in Minneapolis mn.They are master SCAM in the industry of CLEANING. Behind of a desk they take advantege of hard worker and Dreams People. So please keep away from these tipe of scam people.I invest$10
000, and they never end asking for more, every day they creat new excusas to take my money out of my pocket.owner of ANAGO CLEANING SERVICES BIG SCAM IN MINNEAPOLIS MN.
Anago is like all franchises, they use the fact you don't feel you can get cleaning contracts yourself, or give a cleaning bid against you. When you go to them for a franchise, they take advantage of you. They don't bid as low as they used to do, but they don't pass any of that additional money they get if they win the bid onto you. You still do all the work, and they take their payments and fees. Of course you are going to get taking advantage of by them. JaniKing, Stratus, JanPro, Anago, Coverall, Vanguard all practice the basic same business model. Do your research, you may be better off starting a service yourself, subcontracting work from independent cleaning services, and learning to find companies, and give them bids yourself. In the long run, You will really "own" the business, not a master franchiser.