For HOA boards
The neighborhood directory your HOA controls.
A private resident directory the board owns, not a vendor. One listing per household, claimed and kept current by the people who live there — so the roster stops living in a spreadsheet.
Priced per household — fair at twelve homes or twelve hundred. See pricing.
The units never change. The people always do.
An association's lots are permanent; almost nothing else is. Owners sell, renters cycle through, a new family moves into 4118 and nobody catches it until a notice goes to the old owner's email. Every turnover quietly breaks another row of the spreadsheet.
So every year or two, someone on the board re-keys the roster by hand — and the only current copy lives on the last secretary's laptop, right next to the announcement list that walks out the door with every outgoing officer.
A directory shouldn't have a half-life.
Built around the household.
Roost's directory is household-first: one listing per address, run by the people who live there, owned by the association.
The board loads the roster once.
Send us whatever you have — the owner list, the mailing list, the property manager's export. We clean it up and set up a listing for every household. Nobody on the board re-keys anything.
Each household claims its own listing.
Residents sign in with a magic link — no passwords — confirm what's there, and choose what neighbors can see: visible, private, or opted out entirely. Most people are done in under a minute.
The roster keeps itself current.
A move-in is a claimed listing; a move-out is an edit — not a winter of re-keying. And when the board turns over, the new officers inherit a living roster, because it belongs to the association, not to anyone's laptop.
When the board needs to reach everyone, one click emails the whole community with every address kept private — so the announcement list can never walk out the door again.
Private means private — even from the board.
Plenty of neighbors are happy to share a phone number; some would rather not. A neighborhood directory has to honor both without drama. In Roost, each household's choice is enforced in the database itself — not just hidden on a screen — so a misconfigured page can't leak someone who chose to stay private.
And there's no bulk export. Not for the board, not for a property manager, not for us. The roster never leaves the app to live forever in someone's downloads folder.
Priced per household.
Directory is $2.50 per household per year ($350 minimum, $1,000 cap). Community adds the full toolkit for $4.50 per household per year ($500 minimum, $1,500 cap). The minimum and cap keep it fair whether your association is twelve homes or twelve hundred.
HOAs start with a short call.
Fifteen minutes to look at how your association is organized today — how many households, where the roster lives now — and whether Roost is a fit. No pitch deck.
Book 15 minutes