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by rb808 2966 days ago
I'm on the board of my condo building's HOA which has a number of things that would be helpful.

* We pay $200/mo for a basic website with forum, some billing things, some file storage and other stuff I never use. It looks like it was written 20 years ago. (If someone can recommend something already out there that would be helpful)

* Doorman accepts dozens of package deliveries each day which get sent email and tracked in above system when picked up. Needs to write apt number on box and have its own tracking system

* I have to approve lots of expenses not knowing what fixing the hvac unit should cost

* we're getting screwed by insurance company - I have no idea if our policy is good or not

* Insurance claims for damage is a huge s* show

* Energy management is horrible, we dont know where our electricity is going or how we can cut down

* Contractors are unreliable - I want to know who is blacklisted from neighbouring buildings because they suck

* How do our expenses compare to others? I have no idea.

3 comments

You hit home. Contractors for someone unknowledgeable is a shot in the dark. Insurance are overcharging and they have lots of useless overhead. And given the iot world we live in, we can do better in electricity.
Rentlytics can answer a couple of those questions about how your costs for energy etc are doing and how they compare to other rental buildings.
What exactly does that website do?
Website for residents

Forum

Document storage

maintains emails lists

Track who's paid

+ more I don't really use it

There are a bunch here

https://www.capterra.com/hoa-software/

I don't know much about hoa's but this sounds like something that would work with a common stack like WordPress + Stripe