CommonKeel Research
Updated August 15, 2026 · Original data, openly licensed, every figure dated
Most of what is written about HOA operations is written from other writing. These pages are not. Each one is built from primary sources we read ourselves — vendor pricing pages, enacted bill text, official state codes — and each one carries the date it was read, so you can tell a current fact from a stale one.
Everything here is free to reuse with attribution. If you find something wrong, tell us; corrections get published, dated and credited.
Open datasets
HOA Software Pricing Transparency Dataset
Thirty HOA and condo software and service vendors: whether each publishes a price for its own service, what it publishes, the model it charges on, and the date we last read it at the vendor’s page. Twelve of thirty publish nothing at all. Includes normalised monthly cost at 100 units.
v1.0, August 2026 · CSV + JSON · CC BY 4.0
2026 State HOA Law Changes
What actually changed in state community-association law in 2026, read from enacted bill text rather than trade coverage — including the bills that were widely reported and then died, and a named list of the gaps in our own reading.
Maintained monthly · Primary sources cited per row
How we work
- Primary sources first. Statutes come from official state code and enacted bill text, not from summaries. Prices come from the vendor’s own page, not from review aggregators.
- Every fact carries a date. Prices change; statutes change. A figure without a read date is not usable, so ours always have one.
- We publish our own errors. When a later read falsifies something we published, the correction goes on the page that carried the mistake, dated and explained.
- We publish what we could not verify. Named gaps are more useful to a board than a confident claim we cannot support.
The full rules are in our editorial standards and scoring methodology.
Disclosure. No vendor pays for placement, ranking or coverage in any research on this site, and no vendor sees a page before it is published. Our two active commercial relationships are disclosed in full on our disclosure page. Research published here is educational information, not legal, tax, accounting or purchasing advice.
In progress
We are building a benchmark dataset on what small self-managed associations actually spend and how they staff their boards, drawn from a board survey rather than from vendor marketing. If you serve on a board and would like to be told when it opens, the newsletter signup at the foot of this page is the way.