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HOAhomepage is an indexed archive of the Common Interest Development (CID) industry, covering the entire life cycle from initial subdivision to long-term community maintenance. While stakeholders like investors, property owners, and professionals change, the developments themselves are built to last indefinitely. Our core dataset focuses on two elements: the development’s physical characteristics and geolocation, and the community association responsible for its upkeep. Ultimately, our goal is to catalog all CIDs, making them connection points for all stakeholders.
The primary objective of HOAhomepage is to match community needs with CID professionals who have the expertise to meet those needs. The fact is, community associations are not all the same. The board of directors of a community(volunteers), with a few dozen detached homes, does not have the same need for professional services as a master community or high-rise condominium. The industry of CID professionals is prepared to serve any community. Regardless of the scope of responsibilities, each community board must strive to minimize assessments; it’s their fiduciary responsibility. However, finding the right people to volunteer is a major challenge for communities. We start from the perspective that all communities are self-managed. The task is blending board leadership and expertise with the professional help they need to meet their objectives. We help boards clarify their needs and organize their responsibilities, including governance, maintenance, and homeowner communications. We provide the tools for volunteer boards to craft “Requests for Proposals” and vet professionals who have targeted the community because they believe their experience and expertise are a fit.
HOAhomepage, a nonprofit platform for common interest property owners, has identified several cost-saving solutions that leverage the economy of scale. Few communities, however, take advantage of group service negotiations. Over the past 25 years, assessments have consistently outpaced inflation. In contrast, 30 years ago, assessments were seen as a bargain, providing convenience, amenities, and security for less than individual owners could secure. Today, assessments are often considered a “deal killer” by prospective homebuyers. Our research found communities within a mile of each other with virtually identical features but assessments that differed by 100%. While these are extreme examples, they highlight a key issue: without a demonstrable value for higher assessments, a community’s marketability suffers.
There are no registration fees for property owners. We intend to enhance common interest ownership, starting with making CI ownership more affordable.
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Summary
This registration is for both resident and nonresident homeowners. The primary concern for all common interest property owners, is rising assessments. However, we also know that each owner has responsibilities and needs specific to their individual properties, which we address through Special Interest Groups
Our research reveals that 80% of CI tenants want to purchase a home, 60% expect to buy within 3 years, and the majority of those will purchase their first home in a CID. Although we want feedback from all CID Tenants, we have a particular focus on those who intend to purchase their first home in a community association. HOAhomepage wants to help tenants find their first home. Beyond CID tenants, the platform extends to any first time home buyers. We believe that Common Interest Developments can provide a more affordable gateway to entering the residential real estate market. This is one of the reasons we focus on preasuring state and local governments to minimize regulatory fees, and taxes that provide little and just makes new homes too expensive. Many states recognize this and we will profile these states and deliver these examples to the citizens of the states that don’t. Property Exchange
Separate interest: Investor Owners: This is a special category of Businesses and professionals who serve individual homeowners outside of the association. Examples are real estate-related, maintenance, insurance, etc. However, many of these businesses can serve both the community and individual homeowners. This directory allows contractors to connect with the communities where they serve individual owners.
Self Managed Communities ,Featured Benefits: We are creating a directory for this category for common interest association leaders. It includes not only management companies, but every subcategory of professional service companies. Individual professionals register as employees of these companies. AS a platform, we intend to facilitate individual communities to group with other communities that share the same need and create a special interest “Master Association” to negotiate contracts.
This element of HOAhomepage is focused on helping Community Association Professionals market their services to community Board members. And brand themselves with the homeowners in specific communities. The CID Professional is a representative of a company who works directly with the community leadership. A Portfolio Manager, a company marketing representative, or any person who makes assurances to the board to secure a contract on behalf of their company. Our CIDpros create a personal target market of CIDs in their service area. Then we provide a variety of tools that focus on and track your marketing efforts. Whether you use newsletters, social media posts, author articles, or conduct polls and surveys, the Target Market platform gathers the pertinent information on your interactions and the community data and activity.
Homebuilding Challenge This segment of our platform focuses on Homebuilders and the myriad of companies that have contributed their expertise to create this industry. Over the last 60 years, over 95% of the current 350,000 CID communities in the US were built and gave birth to some of the housing industry’s iconic brands, like DR Horton, Lennar, Pulte, Toll Brothers, KB Homes, but there are hundreds of smaller building companies that drive innovation to meet our housing needs. Consequently, this directory strives to profile all CID builders and their communities.. Large or small builders were drawn to this type of subdivision to deliver affordable housing. However, they have been met with a barrage of unjustifiable fees, taxes, and regulations that have just made housing less affordable. This platform endeavors to offer the voting power of some 50 million common interest property owners to help the building industry battle high fees and overregulation.
Affordable housing challenge
THIS REGISTRATION CATEGORY IS NOT YET AVAILABLE. There are dozens of talented journalists producing insightful articles on real estate generally, common interest development, insurance, and many other subjects of interest to our constituents. This is a directory of writers’ profiles and articles they regularly create..
As an entity, HOAhomepage uses connections with common interest owners to conduct surveys, polls, and other interactions to measure trends and reactions of the owners, regarding a variety of topics. The results of these efforts are available to all members, including developers and CID professionals.
Role of professionals on the HOAhomepage platform
The challenge for board members is creating a shortlist of candidates to submit proposals. The challenge for CID Professionals is getting on the short list. Although we publish a directory of CID Professionals for boards to search, filter, and explore, the most effective way for boards to match their needs with professionals is to view a list of professionals who know your community and believe they are a fit. Our Target Market application enables professionals to target specific communities in their local service area that fit their experience and expertise. On each community listing, the board can view the list of professionals who have targeted their community. The board can view the professional’s profile, client list, endorsements, articles, surveys, and why they targeted the community. The board can make contact, tag, or share with other board members. The point is to initiate a conversation early in the process of retaining professional services.
Property Owners
If you are an owner of a common interest property – this platform is designed to deliver community transparency. You are invited to weigh in on all matters related to your association. Your leadership needs to know what you think.
Homeowner concerns:
- Assessments
- Insurance
- Deed Restrictions
- Statutory mandates
- Maintenance
- Elections
- Privacy
Board Members
Board and committee roles are often thankless and suffer from a lack of resident appreciation and general apathy, making it hard to find volunteers. We aim to counter this trend by opening up homeowner interaction and making it simpler for boards to communicate their intentions to the community.
Portfolio managers
For professionals who provide administrative and maintenance services to community associations and are willing to interact with homeowners in their service area.
Management companies
Management companies employ portfolio managers and provide administrative support, as well as training and communications.
CID ancillary services
These CID speciialists provide; insurnce, legal services, accounting, replacement reserve analysis, and many other services.
Developers
Common interest community developers need to be part of the conversation. Developers set the standard for how communities will succeed or fail over time. Statutory requirements, both state and local levels make creating new housing more complicated.