About Common Elements

Common Elements is a vertical software platform for the U.S. community association industry — homeowner associations, condominium associations, and the management companies, vendors, attorneys, and insurance agencies that serve them. We bring four things together in one place that today live across spreadsheets, email chains, voicemails, and trade-show floors:

• An industry forum (the “Common Area”) where boards, managers, vendors, and counsel discuss what actually works.
• An RFP Hub with structured bid fields, side-by-side proposal comparison, and a single audit trail.
• A vendor directory with credential-backed verification rather than pay-to-play badging.
• A unified user model so a single person can wear board, management, vendor, and attorney hats without juggling logins.

Florida changed the rules. Senate Bill 4-D and the structural integrity reserve study (SIRS) requirements that followed Surfside rewrote the obligations every condominium board carries. Statutes changed; software didn’t. The day-to-day work of getting three competitive bids, vetting a roofer’s license, documenting a reserve study, or answering a unit owner’s question still happens in PDFs, BCC’d emails, and the twentieth phone call of the day.

The team behind Common Elements has lived inside this industry — managing portfolios of associations, holding the licenses, sitting across the table from vendors and counsel — long enough to see where the workflow keeps breaking. We’re building the tool we always wanted, starting Florida-first because that’s where the regulatory pressure is sharpest and where our network and credibility are deepest.

We’re not a property management company; we don’t compete with the firms that use us. We’re not a directory play that sells leads. We don’t accept payment from vendors to rank them higher than other vendors. The directory’s verification chips reflect real credentials (LCAM, contractor license, insurance license, attorney bar admission) — not ad spend. If we ever change that, we’ll change this page first.

The fastest way to reach us is by email at hello@commonelements.com. If you’d like to read more about the platform first, the blog carries our deeper takes on Florida statute changes, reserve studies, vendor vetting, and the operational reality of running an association well.