CONFIRMED
To sell a franchise, a company hands buyers a Franchise Disclosure Document and files it with state regulators. It is a public record, and on its first page it states the franchisor’s principal business address. For years, BAM Franchising’s address was the Legally Mine building. Then it became its law firm’s building. It rents both from entities connected to itself.
BAM Franchising’s 2020 and 2022 disclosures give its principal address as 225 West 520 North, Orem. That is the address Legally Mine, LLC has used, the McNeff asset-protection business this site reports is the machine behind the franchise, and it is the address on the recorded deeds of a related company, Legal Bricks, LLC. BAM’s own disclosure lists Ammon McNeff and Matthew McNeff as officers of both companies at the same time, and the 2020 edition says the franchisor operates, in its own words, “through an affiliate.” For about five years the franchisor and the asset-protection firm were the same people at one address.
The office at 225 West 520 North is not held by an outside landlord. It is two units of the Holland Square condominiums, Utah County parcels 41:311:0017 and 41:311:0018, and the recorder’s records show the current owner is Phoenix Keep, LLC. The units reached Phoenix Keep through a chain of recorded transfers among McNeff-connected entities and family, including Legal Bricks, LLC, which listed 225 West 520 North as its own address. The building the franchise sells its structures to shelter is sheltered the same way.
By its 2024 disclosure, BAM Franchising had changed its principal address to 4844 North 300 West, Provo. That building is owned by MHM Commercial II, LLC, the entity tied to the McNeffs’ law firm, and it is the same Provo office condo where the franchise’s holding company, BAM IP Holdings, registers. The franchisor left one connected building for another.
BAM Franchising’s audited financial statements, bound inside its 2026 disclosure, list operating leases for these offices as ordinary business leases. The statements have a note titled Related Party. It discloses a single item, a share buyback. It does not disclose the office leases. So the franchisor pays rent for its offices to entities connected to its principals and its law firm, and its own financial statements do not flag those leases as related party.
BAM Franchising sued Reckless Ben for racketeering. That kind of claim turns on proving an “enterprise associated in fact,” a group that shares a purpose, shares relationships, and acts together over time. BAM says the enterprise is Schneider and his readers. Its own franchise disclosures describe one between the franchisor and the asset-protection firm: one office, the same two officers, and, in its own words, operating “through an affiliate.” The idea BAM is using against a critic is documented, in its own filings, on its own side.
And the office is not only shared, it is sheltered. Legally Mine sells legal structures marketed to put property beyond the reach of creditors. The building the franchise runs from is held in the same kind of structure, a holding company reached through a chain of transfers among family and connected entities. The operation does not only sell the product. It runs the product on its own headquarters.
That is why the rent is worth a reader’s attention. A franchise disclosure exists so a buyer can judge who they are dealing with before signing a contract that can run for years, whether the franchisor stands on its own, who controls it, whether it can pay what it owes. On the page, the offices read as ordinary leases. In the record, the franchisor pays for those offices to entities tied to its own family and its own law firm, and the note that lists related-party dealings names only a share buyback.
The fair counterpoint: a company may lease from an affiliated entity, and nothing here says any lease was improper or any filing was false. The point is documentary. A franchise buyer is entitled to know who the franchisor pays and who it answers to, and the public record shows the offices trace back to the same family and the same firm that run the business. Everyone is presumed innocent of anything a court has not decided.
Sources, public records: BAM Franchising Franchise Disclosure Documents, 2020, 2022 and 2024 editions (first-page principal business address and the management section), and the audited financial statements filed within the 2026 edition; Utah County Recorder records for parcels 41:311:0017 and 41:311:0018; Utah Division of Corporations records for the entities named. The full machine is in The machine; the connection is on the map.
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