Open 24/7. Florida-deep, nationally available.
The always-on industry expo for community associations.
Common Elements is the always-on industry expo for community associations: vendor hall, professional community, and structured procurement, open 24/7. It complements the management and accounting software you already use; it does not replace it.
Search the national registry of community associations.
Jump to your state
Florida has the deepest editorial coverage today. Every state’s registry is browsable in the national directory.
Free for boards, managers, and verified vendors at launch. No card required.
Florida-deep today. Every state on the way.
Explore the full directoryYour association is probably already in here.
- 360,000+
- HOA & condo associations in the directory
- 50 states
- nationwide, Florida-deep on statute + compliance
- 198,000+
- enriched with location data
What you get
Vendor hall, bid room, and lounge, across every state.
The always-on industry expo for community associations. Not your accounting software or work-order system. The industry layer that lives between the trade show and the inbox.
The Common Area
The networking lounge. Board members, managers, attorneys, and vendors from every state in one professional forum. Role-badged posts, public threads, private side conversations.
Browse the forumThe RFP hub
The structured bid room. Post once, invite the right vendors, compare proposals side by side. No more email chains or five PDFs in five layouts.
See how RFPs workThe vendor directory
The vendor hall. Verified profiles searchable by trade and service area. Licensing, insurance, and reviews on the record, not a gut-feel referral from last year's trade show.
Explore vendorsGet quotes
The pros your board hires, in one place.
Request quotes from independent insurance agents, attorneys, reserve analysts, CPAs, and banks that serve associations. Common Elements connects you; the professional is independent.
Who it’s for
Built for everyone who keeps a community running.
Board members
Post RFPs, compare bids, and talk to peers in your state, and across the country, who've solved the same problem.
Management companies
Coordinate across a portfolio of associations in one or many states without losing track of who's doing what.
Owners
Understand your association, look up the statute behind a board decision, and find the vendors and pros your community works with.
Vendors
Respond to qualified bids from boards that are ready to hire. No more cold calls.
Attorneys and pros
Build a verified profile, weigh in on the forum, and get found by the boards and managers who need your specialty.
Free for every association
A free site for the association.
Board members and managers can publish a free association website and owner portal in minutes. No card required.
- Document hosting
- Calendar and events
- Owner logins
- Public notices
What we mean by “Common Elements”
In community-association law, the common elements are the parts every owner shares: the pool, the clubhouse, the lobby, the roof, the landscaping out front. They're what turns a building or a subdivision into a community. The work of caring for them is the work this platform exists to support.
National in reach. Florida-deep in the bedrock.
We started where the regulatory pressure is sharpest. Every Florida association in the registry, Chapter 718 and 720 mapped to tools, post-Surfside statutes (SB 4-D, milestone inspections, SIRS) mapped to free tools and checklists. That depth is the proof. The platform now opens to boards, managers, and vendors across the country, with state coverage expanding on the same foundation.
What Common Elements is
What Common.Elements IS.
Most visitors already run management software for their associations. Common.Elements is the layer above and around it: the community, the vendors, the RFPs, the statutes. Here is what that means in practice.
What it is (and isn't)
We’re not your accounting software, your owner portal, or your work-order system.
Common.Elements is the always-on industry expo your existing stack is missing: vendor hall, structured bid room, statute reference, and a board-to-board forum open between trade shows. The work that has nowhere else to live.
Plays nicely with AppFolio, Buildium, Vantaca, CINC, Enumerate, FrontSteps, and any other management software you already use.
The RFP Hub, concretely
Post your reserves project, your roof replacement, your insurance renewal once. Invited vendors reply with typed proposals you read side by side.
- Vetted vendors compete on real reviews from real boards
- Side-by-side bid comparison with attached scopes and insurance certs
- No sales calls until you say yes
- Invited vendors submit typed proposals in one shared format
Free tools today, Pro tools tomorrow
Free calculators, statute reference, and a per-state directory, all on Common Elements. No card, no wall. The community side of Common.Elements(forum, vendor directory, RFP Hub) is free for boards, managers, and verified vendors during launch.
Pro tools inside Common.Elements build on the free ones: advanced calculators, custom CSV exports, and shareable PDFs for board packets. Free for everyone during launch. We charge only after we earn your trust.
Developer API
Power your product with CE data.
Association, compliance, and risk data available via a REST API. Free to start, scales with your usage.
Join Common Elements.
Free at launch. Claim your account and join the first nationwide community for the people who run associations.