Free software for self-managed HOAs

Your HOA is a legal entity.
Stop running it like a group chat.

A third of America's 370,000 HOAs are run by volunteer neighbors — out of spreadsheets, inboxes, and a banker's box. Village puts your governing documents, dues, maintenance, minutes, and compliance deadlines in one permanent, auditable record. Free. Every feature.

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No credit card. No seat limits. Your records export any time.

Before / after

From the banker's box to one calm dashboard.

How most boards run today

  • CC&Rs in a PDF nobody can search — or a filing cabinet
  • Dues tracked in the treasurer's personal spreadsheet
  • Minutes scattered across three secretaries' laptops
  • Compliance deadlines remembered, until they aren't
  • Everything lost when a board member moves away

The same association, on Village

  • Searchable governing documents — the exact section, in seconds
  • Dues collected, tracked, and reconciled per unit
  • Finalized minutes: immutable, timestamped, permanent
  • A compliance calendar seeded for your state
  • Institutional memory that survives every board turnover

What Village does

Four jobs, done with the rigor of a bank.

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Documents

Full-text search across CC&Rs, bylaws, and amendments. Ask “fence height” — get §7.2, with context and amendment history.

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Dues & payments

Assessment cycles, autopay by free ACH, delinquency tracking, one-click reminders, and a ledger your CPA will thank you for.

Maintenance

Requests with photos, statuses, vendors, and costs — a permanent maintenance record for disclosures and disputes.

Compliance

Deadlines seeded by state — annual meetings, notice periods, reserve studies — each explained in one plain sentence.

Why this matters

Board members are personally on the hook.

An HOA is a corporation. Its volunteer directors carry fiduciary duty — and courts don't grade on a curve for “we didn't know.” Village turns obligations into dated, tracked, completed items in a permanent record you can hand to any attorney, auditor, or buyer's escrow.

CA Civ. Code §5550

Reserve studies, every 3 years

California boards must review reserves annually and update the study triennially. Village tracks the cadence and logs each completion.

CA Civ. Code §5200

Records requests, on the clock

Members can demand association records on statutory timelines. When everything lives in Village, fulfillment is an export, not a scramble.

Annual meeting & notice

Notice periods that void votes

Miss a notice window and the election can be challenged. Village calculates the window from your bylaws and reminds the whole board.

Village Treasury · waitlist

Your reserves are earning 0.1%. They should be earning 4%+, fully insured.

Your board has a duty to safeguard the association's money. Idle six-figure reserves in a zero-interest account is a board decision — make a defensible one. Village Treasury will offer association operating and reserve accounts with competitive yield, FDIC coverage above $250K via sweep networks, two-signer board controls, and statements reconciled automatically against your Village ledger.

0.10%
Typical HOA account
4.00%+
Village Treasury target

On a $500,000 reserve, that difference is roughly $19,500 a year — a special assessment you never have to levy.

Join the Treasury waitlist

We'll only use this to tell you when Treasury opens in your state. Nothing is sold, ever.

Pricing

Free. Forever. Every feature.

No tiers, no seat counts, no “contact sales.” The software volunteer boards need shouldn't cost the association money it collects from neighbors.

How is it free?

When your association collects dues through Village, ACH is free and card payments carry a small convenience fee paid by the homeowner who chooses that method. And when Village Treasury launches, we earn a margin on deposits — never on your money's safety, and never by charging volunteers for software.

We make money when we move and hold your money well. That alignment is the product.

Questions boards ask

Straight answers.

Who owns our records?

Your association does. Every document, minute, ledger entry, and vote exports to open formats (JSON, CSV, PDF) from Settings, any time, no questions asked.

What happens if Village shuts down?

You export everything and carry on. We will never hold an association's records hostage — custody is the brand, and hostage-taking isn't custody.

Is our data secure?

Data is encrypted in transit, access is role-based, and finalized records are immutable.

We're a brand-new community. Can our developer set this up?

Yes — developers must establish the HOA before the first closing. Stand it up on Village in an afternoon, free, and hand buyers a turnkey association. Write us: hello [at] villagehoa [at] co.