Check out the comments and posts on Diversified Health on Unhappy Franchisee:
http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com/category/franchisor/diversified-health/

Also, the Butterfly Life discussions may have some post-Diversified comments:
http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com/butterfly-life-franchise-discussion/

You could also search comments on some of their other acquisitions.

Sorry to hear about your situation. The Butterfly Life saga has been a heartbreaker for many.

Why would I want to give them more $$$$

Now I just received a COLLECTION NOTICE in the mail for $31,500.00???!!!!

Do you know anyone else that this has happened to?

I need some help & advice.

Thanks,
Carolyn
Pacifica (Butterfly) soon to be another name.

The hard sell pre-sale process that suggests “earnings” and profits and little risk is SOP for the franchisors. The FTC’s lack of enforcement of illegal earnings claims made outside of the actual FDD and the contract is in keeping with federal regulatory poicy.

The FTC allows the franchisors to advertise and hype their franchises on the Internet and in the media but has taken franchisors out from under “Truth in Advertising Laws” and out from under the common law fraud statutes of the 50 States.

The RISK of the investment in franchises can be hidden because of the “constructive fraud” of the deceiving package of the government disclosure document (FDD) and the binding adhesory contract that acts as a red herring to OBSCURE the RISK of the investment in the franchise, whether a mature franchise or a new concept.

This FAILURE of Regulatory Policy and our Congress to protect franchisees and to, instead, SUBSIDIZE franchisors and the other special interests is a failure of democratic Capitalism. Our courts are tainted in the process but the “rich get rich” and the “poor get poorer” and “trickle down economics” claim their victims.

Let’s hope the BFL franchisees make a loud noise heard in the Halls of Congress.

Let’s hope that Matt Wilson understands that the government was complicit in that BFL knew that government regulation would permit them to OVERSEED and not to make timely disclosure of failure or unprofitability to new prospective buyers of the BFL franchise.

Apparently, our government only requires franchisors to be copmpetent enough to comply with the 23 items of disclosure mandated by the FTC Rule. If this means that franchisors use their contracts and regulation to lie, cheat and steal outside of contract, so be it?