About
A trade publication for the people who run community associations.
Reviews, comparisons and guides on the software used by HOA boards and community managers. One published rubric, every vendor fact cited and dated.
What we cover
The software and services that homeowners associations, condominium associations and the managers who serve them rely on: management platforms, accounting and financial controls, resident portals and payments, violation and architectural-request workflows, board governance tools, and the statutory context — elections, reserves, assessments — that shapes what the software has to do.
We write for the treasurer closing a month at the kitchen table, the board president choosing a platform for the next five years, and the community manager who has to live with the choice. Vendors are welcome to read along; they are not the audience.
How we work
- Every product is scored with the same published rubric. The weights are fixed and versioned.
- Every score cites its evidence. Where we have none, the review says “not evaluated” instead of guessing.
- Every vendor fact — pricing, ownership, founding date — lives in one fact file with a source URL and a verification date.
- Corrections are logged on the page they correct. Here is how to request one.
Who owns us
HOA Tech Report is owned by The HOA Wiz, which makes community-association software.
Masthead
A real, named editor. We do not use fictional bylines, generated headshots or invented credentials.
Nikki Ann Shipley
Editor
Dr. Nikki Ann Shipley holds a PhD in Community Medicine from USC and a Master’s in Epidemiology from UCLA, with over 30 years of experience in public health, program evaluation, and nonprofit grant writing. Program evaluation is the discipline of applying one methodology consistently across cases — the same skill this job asks for in scoring every product against a single published rubric.
