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 HOA Wiz, Inc., which makes HOA Wiz, a community-association platform. That means we cover products that compete with our owner's. We think the honest response is to say so on every page, publish the method, and let the editor — not the founder — sign off on every score. The full statement is on the disclosure page.

Masthead

Two real people. We do not use fictional bylines, generated headshots or invented credentials — a masthead of two humans is worth more than one of six personas.

  • [Editor name — pending]

    Editor

    TODO: bio, publication history and LinkedIn link to be supplied by the editor. Nothing here is invented; the entry stays blank until it is real.

  • Taylor Shipley

    Founder contributor

    Founder of HOA Wiz, a community-association software company. Writes about the category from the vendor side of the table; every piece carries that disclosure.

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