HELLO!
My name is REX.
I can help sniff out the perfect HOA.
The team at Community Lens wants you to find your best HOA. To achieve this, Rex digs up hundreds of data points (good boy!) on thousands of associations and communities across the United States. Our simple scoring system analyzes the governance quality, financial health, and community’s resident experience. Get the answers to important questions before you make life-changing real estate decisions. We make the data easily accessible so you can find the community that’s the best fit.
You shouldn’t have to spend hours digging through hundreds of pages for this information.
Community Lens brings transparency to association living.
There are over 400,000 HOAs in the United States. Each one has unique fees, operational processes, and restrictions. Let Rex dig through the pages and retrieve the information that is important to you. Our detailed reports include association contact information, closing fees, monthly/annual fees, rental restrictions, purchase restrictions, pet restrictions, legal risks, and more. Our proprietary HOA scoring system helps you understand the association’s strengths at a glance.
Are you an HOA manager looking to improve your community?
Rex and the team at Community Lens are behind you 100%.
Are you looking to run an internal audit of your HOA in order to find ways to improve it? We love this idea! Contact Community Lens for an overview of our standards and learn how your community rates. Our rating areas include operations, governance, financial health and more.
We assign each HOA or community a badge that reflects their participation in the program. Achieve a bronze, silver, or gold commendation to help your community shine. Community Lens is a reliable resource and will display this badge on any inquiry about the HOA or managed community. Participating managers receive data, analysis, and endorsement in the Community Lens directory. Contact Community Lens and we will help you assess your current status and reach your community’s goals. If you’re looking to improve your HOA—or if your HOA is already great and you want everyone to know—Community Lens is the place to start.
Buying a rental property?
Know investor restrictions and risks before you buy.
Our reports can help you understand how an HOA will affect your rental property investment. Understanding fees and closing costs is one thing, but knowing the underlying association rules that can impact your investment—and the practice risks that can hit your bottom line -—puts this information in perspective.
Know in the due-diligence period if an association exists, and the annual association costs and closing costs to ensure your profitability projections are accurate. An unknown or under-estimated HOA can ruin your projections, turning a profitable home into a loss. Community Lens can help you “sniff out” the rental restrictions (e.g., lease caps, minimum ownership periods) and amendment risks (e.g., % vote needed to amend the covenants, grandfathering allowances) before you invest. We help you ensure you made the right investment choice.
Become an SFR program participant and receive geographical and association analysis to help uncover your risk for fines, fees and more. This risk analysis data gives you a “community lens” to understand the data. Make informed investment strategies and manage current operational processes to reduce HOA costs.
Contact Community Lens to set up a due-diligence program, or a special project to review risks and identify opportunities to save association costs within your existing property portfolio.
These reports are customized. They only include information that’s important to you.
Every unique situation requires a unique report.
Community Lens can create many different association reports based on your custom needs and requirements. We can also provide special analysis of your specific HOA, region of interest, or an entire investment portfolio—to help you refine your investment strategy, quantify your risk, pinpoint areas for improvement, and create cost savings. Our services cover the entire United States. Contact us today to discuss your HOA or managed community reporting needs! We are happy to assemble a customized report for your tailored application.
We assign each HOA or community a badge that reflects their participation in the program. Achieve a bronze, silver, or gold commendation to help your community shine. Community Lens is a reliable resource and will display this badge on any inquiry about the HOA or managed community. Participating managers receive data, analysis, and endorsement in the Community Lens directory. Contact Community Lens and we will help you assess your current status and reach your community’s goals. If you’re looking to improve your HOA—or if your HOA is already great and you want everyone to know—Community Lens is the place to start.
Get a detailed report any time.
Our reports include:
Your HOA Report |
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| Association contact information | ✓ |
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| Annual homeowner charges and additional fees | ✓ |
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| Transaction fees required at close | ✓ |
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| Financial data and health analysis | ✓ |
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| Policy data including rental restrictions, purchase restrictions, pet restrictions, ARC requirements and more | ✓ |
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| General neighborhood information | ✓ |
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| Association amenities and services | ✓ |
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| Legal risks | ✓ |
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| Association scoring | ✓ |