Services · Mobile app development · Community management apps
Community management app development Los Angeles, for condominium associations, planned developments, townhome HOAs and the management firms that serve them from Downtown lofts to Valley townhomes. We design and build the owner app, the board workspace and the manager console, with California's Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act shaping how notices are delivered, how meetings are held and how elections are run.
California regulates common interest developments in more detail than almost any other state. An app that sends an email blast without the owner's written consent, or runs an election the statute does not allow, creates risk for the board. We design the workflows so the compliant path is the easy path.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Modules we build
Los Angeles common interest developments range from mid century garden condos in Westwood and Sherman Oaks to new towers in South Park and planned communities in Playa Vista and the northern San Fernando Valley. Owners speak English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Armenian and many other languages, and a large share of units are rented out, so the person living in the unit is often not the member who votes or pays. The Davis-Stirling Act, found in the California Civil Code from section 4000 onward, controls delivery of notices, open meetings, elections, records, budgets, reserves and assessment collection. Our job is to turn those rules into screens that boards and managers can use without checking the statute every time. These are the modules most LA associations choose from, ordered by how often they come up.
Each member records whether they want notices by mail, by email or both, and gives written consent before electronic delivery begins. The app keeps that consent and any revocation on file, and sends the yearly request for a preferred delivery method the Civil Code expects, so a disclosure is never sent by a channel the member did not choose.
Notices that count as properly delivered when it matters.
Where the board has adopted the rule California now allows, director elections and other eligible votes run by electronic secret ballot with an independent inspector of elections. Members who opted out receive paper ballots, and votes the statute keeps off electronic voting, such as certain assessment increases, stay on paper.
Turnout goes up without putting the election at risk.
Agendas, notices and video links for open and executive sessions. Fully virtual meetings follow the conditions California set for them, and the app reminds the board that a meeting where ballots are counted still needs a physical location. Minutes drafts, open forum comments and executive session summaries are kept in the same place for the next meeting.
Meetings members can actually attend from anywhere in the city.
The annual budget report, reserve study summaries, insurance disclosures and the annual policy statement are posted to each member's record and delivered by their chosen method, with the date of delivery logged for the file.
Annual disclosure season handled on a calendar, not in a rush.
Members request association records in the app, the manager sees the response deadline and redaction notes, and documents are shared through a secure link instead of a stack of photocopies at the management office. Minutes, contracts and financial statements already published stay in a searchable library, which cuts the number of formal requests in the first place.
Fewer disputes over access to records.
Condo associations track the periodic inspections California requires for balconies, decks, stairways and walkways, plus any seismic retrofit work a building must complete. Owners see when an inspector will need access to their unit, what was found and what happens next, and the board keeps the reports with the reserve study they affect.
Inspection access arranged without endless phone tag.
Online payment of regular and special assessments by ACH, card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, with autopay and statements for owners who live elsewhere and rent the unit out. When an account falls behind, the pre lien notice, payment plan request and dispute resolution steps California requires are shown in order before any lien is considered, and each step is dated in the ledger.
Collections that follow the statute in the right sequence.
Owners who rent out units register tenants, lease terms and vehicle details, and tenants receive building notices and amenity access without gaining member voting rights. Rental restrictions in the governing documents, such as minimum lease terms, can be applied to new leases, and the manager sees which units are owner occupied when planning outreach for an election or a special assessment vote.
Clear lines between members, residents and visitors.
Owners and residents report a leaking common pipe, a broken garage gate or a lobby light with photos, and the manager assigns a vendor, tracks the work order and closes it with notes. Because California splits repair duties between the association and owners according to the CC&Rs, the app asks who is responsible before a vendor is dispatched, which avoids paying for work that belongs to an owner.
Repairs routed correctly and charged to the right party.
Building announcements, payment reminders and common forms in the languages your owners read, chosen per account. Official notices keep their approved English text alongside any translated version.
Owners understand what the board is asking of them.
Who this is for
Los Angeles has thousands of common interest developments, and most are small. Others are large planned communities with private streets, parks and their own security. Self managed boards, management firms and developers each come to us with a different problem, and the first release should solve that problem before anything else is added. Later releases then follow what directors, managers and members actually use, measured in the app rather than guessed at a board meeting.
A twelve unit building in Silver Lake or Culver City rarely has staff. The board treasurer collects dues, the president sends notices and nobody is sure whether electronic consent forms were ever collected. A lean app with payments, delivery preferences, meeting notices and a records library gives the board a compliant routine it can hand to the next volunteer after an election. Members who prefer paper still get it, while everyone else moves to faster electronic delivery once they consent.
Small scope, real reduction in board risk.
High rise associations run lobby staff, garages, loading docks and move scheduling, often with a high share of rented units. The app needs a front desk view, package logging, elevator bookings and a tenant registry, with owners and residents seeing different things. Inspection access for balconies, walkways and building systems is planned into the same calendar.
Larger planned developments manage private streets, parks, pools and sometimes several sub associations. They need layered assessments, an architectural review process for exterior changes and amenity reservations, with members able to vote and follow board business from a phone rather than attending in person. Architectural requests carry plans, photos and neighbor notices, and approvals stay attached to the lot so a future buyer's escrow can see what was permitted.
Firms managing a portfolio across LA County need one platform with a branded app per association, shared workflows for disclosures and elections, and strict separation of each association's data. We build multi tenant systems where each board sees only its own community and the firm manages delivery preferences, deadlines and inspections across the whole book of business.
A custom platform becomes part of what the firm sells.
Working with Codeeo
Codeeo has no office in California. Our team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi works remotely with Los Angeles clients, and discovery, design reviews and sprint demos all happen by video call. A single association usually commissions a fixed scope first release. Management firms tend to continue on a monthly retainer as they add associations and modules, and larger firms sometimes take a dedicated team. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. If you are comparing a community management app development company in Los Angeles with packaged HOA software, we will tell you honestly when the packaged route fits better.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We pick the technology around your accounting platform, payment processor, election vendor and access control hardware. Most LA builds pair a cross platform mobile app with a web console, so directors can work from a laptop at a meeting and from a phone in between. Hosting sits in a cloud account owned by the association or the firm, so changing managers never means losing the records.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Scope, compliance workflows, integrations and data cleanup.
The number of user roles, the number of associations on the platform, the languages you need, and integrations with accounting, payments, elections and building access systems are the main factors. California's delivery and election rules add workflow design that a simpler state would not need. Migrating old ledgers and collecting fresh delivery consents also takes effort. We give a written scope and quote after discovery, and price ongoing hosting and support separately.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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