If Americas Best Value Inn suspends a franchisee, do fees continue to accrue?
Americas_Best_Value_Inn Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
the CRS, and (ii) we have the right, at our sole discretion, to suspend your access to any revenuegenerating or revenue-related programs (such as group and corporate leads, and Revenue Management Insights). However, all fees continue to accrue during the suspension period. We will reinstate your rights only if you: (a) take all actions necessary to correct any deficiencies detected during any quality assurance inspection visits, or cure such default and provide evidence of cure satisfactory to us within the time frame stated in the notice, whichever is applicable; and, if required, (b) pay our then current reactivation fee. Exercising our suspension rights pursuant to this Section 13.(a) does not preclude us from exercising any other rights and remedies—including our right to terminate this Agreement pursuant to Sections 13.(b) or 13.(c)—if the applicable default has not been cured within any permitted cure period. Notwithstanding anything set forth in this Agreement, we reserve the right to immediately suspend your rights under this Agreement, without prior notice, if we reasonably believe the operation or condition of the Hotel presents a potential threat to the life or safety of any person, or if you have been cited with the violation of any health, safety, or sanitation law, ordinance, or regulation.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPTS (FDD pages 71–223)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Americas Best Value Inn Franchise Disclosure Document, if Americas Best Value Inn suspends a franchisee's access to revenue-generating programs, fees will continue to accrue during the suspension period. Specifically, Americas Best Value Inn has the right to suspend a franchisee's access to revenue-generating or revenue-related programs such as group and corporate leads, and Revenue Management Insights.
To have their rights reinstated, the franchisee must take necessary actions to correct any deficiencies detected during quality assurance inspection visits or cure the default and provide satisfactory evidence of the cure. Additionally, the franchisee may be required to pay a reactivation fee.
Americas Best Value Inn clarifies that exercising suspension rights does not prevent them from pursuing other remedies, including terminating the agreement, if the default is not cured within the permitted timeframe. Furthermore, Americas Best Value Inn reserves the right to immediately suspend a franchisee's rights without prior notice if the hotel's operation or condition poses a potential threat to life or safety, or if there is a violation of any health, safety, or sanitation law.