Parking management for HOAs, run by a board.
Most HOA parking disputes are not about parking. They are about whether the rule was applied the same way to everybody — and the board is usually volunteers, holding a spreadsheet, with no way to show that it was.
HOAs
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Condo associations
A condo building has two kinds of space and often two kinds of resident — the owner who holds a deeded bay and the tenant renting their unit.
What it looks likeApartments
In multifamily, parking is either an administrative cost or an income line, and the difference is almost entirely whether anybody is keeping track of it.
What it looks likeCommercial lots
There is good software for an airport garage and good apps for an hourly space downtown.
What it looks likeCampuses
Campus parking is a scale problem for three weeks a year and an enforcement problem for the rest.
What it looks like
What goes wrong
Four problems, and what happens to each one.
The guest space that is somebody’s second car
Guest passes are requested, dated, priced and visible beside every other request from that unit. A pattern is obvious in a week instead of being argued about for a year.
One space per unit, and the household with three cars
A second vehicle on an account is a rate you set, prorated from the day it is added. The answer stops being a favor and becomes a line on a bill.
“You never enforce it against them”
Every violation records what was seen, when, and the grace period in force at that moment. The answer to the accusation is a record rather than a memory.
The board changes every year
The rules, the rates, the agreements and the history stay with the property, not in the outgoing treasurer’s inbox.
Getting started
What the first afternoon looks like.
- Describe the lot
Areas, levels and zones if you use them, then the spaces in ranges rather than one at a time.
- Pay for the spaces
Per space, per month, once you can see your own number.
- Bring people in
Import the list you keep, or invite them one at a time, with the agreement attached.
- Set the rates and the rules
Monthly rate, second vehicle, guest passes, offence types and fees.
Questions from HOA boards.
Can we run this without a management company?
Yes — it is built for the case where the people running the building are the people who live in it. Access is per section, so a board member can approve guest passes without being able to see the money.
Does the board have to tow?
No, and nothing here pushes you towards it. Warnings, citations and a dispute process cover most of what a community needs; towing is a case handed to the company you chose, if and when you choose one.
What do residents have to install?
Nothing. They open a link and their permit, vehicles, passes and bills are there, in the browser on whatever they already have. The one thing a resident might have to produce is paper: if your rules require a permit displayed in the windscreen and the resident supplies it, we email theirs as a PDF ready to print — and whether to require that at all is your choice, not ours.
We have 48 spaces. Is that too small?
No. The price is per space, so a small community pays a small amount, and nothing in the product assumes a large one.
One price, whatever kind of building it is.
Per space, per month, with everything included. Describe your lot and the arithmetic is yours to check.