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Free HOA Website
Gladly offers stress-free communication for your HOA. These free tools, like our beautiful, Free HOA Websites, provide your community’s face to the world.
Beautiful
Easy to Navigate
Simple to Maintain
Your HOA is beautiful — it deserves a beautiful website. That’s why your Gladly website is completely free to use.
Your free website comes with Document Management (up to 4 folders and 10 files), and Online Payments. You can add a custom domain for $15/mo.
HOA Website Questions
Q: Is my HOA Website really free?
A: Yes! We get it. Money is tight, but you still need an awesome website for your awesome community. With Gladly, you never have to worry about your budget.
Because we received so many requests, you can now add domain hosting so that you can have your own domain (www.yourcommunity.com instead of yourcommunity.gogladly.com)
Q: How do I set it up?
A: If you’ve ever set up a blog or website template before, it’s a similar process. Add your photos, fill in your own text, and you’re done. It’s easy!
Q: Can I use my own domain?
A: Your community will be setup on yourcommunity.gogladly.com. However, you can point your current domain to your Gladly domain. In the
Q: What features are included?
A: Your Free HOA Website includes Document Management (up to 4 folders and 10 files), and Online Payments — all part of the package at no cost! How’s that for happy?
Q: Will my website be mobile ready?
A: Absolutely! Today, most people use mobile devices to surf the web. We’ve designed your Free HOA Website to be 100% mobile friendly without any extra work for you.
Q: Is my Free HOA Website secure?
A: Yes! We use Google maps and credit card information (for verification only…no charges) to ensure anyone who joins as a member actually lives in your community. And you needn’t worry about hackers with our secure servers.
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HOA Insurance — What You Don’t Know,Can Hurt You!
The purchase and annual renewal of the Master Insurance policy for most homeowner associations (HOAs) is probably the quickest and least understood decision an HOA board makes each year. Lincoln Cummings of Cummings & Associates related a story about board members who unlawfully approved a reduction of insurance coverage, to save money, before a catastrophic fire caused $1 million more damage than the reduced policy covered, which resulted in a $100,000 personal judgement, on appeal, against each board member. Protect yourself, and protect your association, by hiring a qualified insurance broker who can advise your community based on the needs, trends, and threats that exist for your distinctive community, and then follow their advice.
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Avoiding the Headlines
Not surprising that in a random sample of newspaper and TV stories focusing on HOAs and condo associations, 13 of 16 stories were about disputes and controversies. Only 3 stories were positive.The news media love controversies. And why wouldn’t they? Controversies attract readers and viewers like poop attracts flies. So you can bet if there’s some controversy brewing in your association, a newspaper or TV reporter just might come knocking on your door. And it’s not fun when that happens.
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Stop Playing HOA Rules Wack-a-Mole
You’ve read the news stories about the homeowner who was treated unfairly by their HOA. In fact, if you’ve worked in the industry you may have witnessed it first hand. Whether these stories are valid or just fodder for a good news story, is a discussion for another blog post — But as a CAM manager, I found myself talking the HOA board out of creating unreasonable or unlawful HOA rules on more than one occasion.
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