FREE, WITH OR WITHOUT A PLAN
A free website for your HOA or any community.
One page at governance.center/community/your-community: what is coming up, the documents every owner asks for, who sits on the board and how to reach it. You write a welcome, pick the address and press Publish. The rest keeps itself current from your board office.
The example page. Longleaf Ridge is made up; the page is drawn by the same code that draws yours. Open the example page
WHAT IS ON IT
What an owner comes looking for, and nothing to keep up.
A volunteer board’s website goes stale because somebody has to remember to edit it. This one is drawn from what your board office already holds.
What is coming up
The dates you tick in your Planner, soonest first, with the next one in a card under your name. On a plan, the meetings you put on your community calendar are listed too, with the time and the place.
Your documents
The declaration, the bylaws, the rules, a form. Up to 5 PDFs without a plan, sorted onto shelves, each opening in the browser.
Good to know
Trash day. Pool hours. Parking. Office hours. We suggest the questions a resident arrives with, and you answer each one in a line.
Who sits on the board
Each seat and who holds it, from your own roster. A name and nothing else: never an email address or a telephone number.
How to reach you
The one address your board reads, and a line for your management company or your office hours. You choose whether either is shown.
Your name, mark and colour
Your logo in the bar and your colour across the top. Whatever colour you pick, the words on it are checked so they stay readable.
HOW IT STARTS
Three steps, and the third is one press.
01
Sign up, free
An email address and a password. No card, and no plan.
02
Name it, write a welcome, pick the address
Your community's name, a few sentences about it, and the last part of the link: governance.center/community/your-community. A picture beside the form shows the page as you type.
03
Press Publish
Nothing is public until you do. You can take the page down again whenever you like, and everything you wrote is kept.
IF YOU LATER WANT MORE
What a plan adds to the page.
The page is yours without one. The Board Office plan opens the rooms a board runs its year in, and each of them puts something on the page.
- A sign-in for owners, to notices, records and their own account. No password: they are sent a link.
- Your meetings, with notices, RSVPs and minutes. Put one on your community calendar and it is on the page.
- A page where a title company or a buyer’s agent asks the board for resale documents.
- Room for 40 documents on the page.
WHAT IT IS NOT
Four things to know before you start.
It is one page, not a site builder
There are no extra pages, no photo galleries and no layouts to choose. That is on purpose: a page with nothing to design is a page a volunteer board keeps current.
It lives on governance.center
Your page is at governance.center/community/your-community. Your own domain name is not available yet. It is planned for communities on a plan.
Search engines list it once you are established here
A page opens for anyone you give the link to from the moment you publish. It is offered to search engines once your community has finished a vote here or is on a plan, which is how we keep strangers from putting up a page in your name.
Documents are PDFs
Word and most scanners can save one. Each file can be up to 10 MB.
FREE, ELSEWHERE, READ ON NOVEMBER 10, 2026
What free means at the other places you will look.
A free website costs something other than money: an advertisement on the page, a ceiling on households, an address that is not yours, or, with ours, one page and no more. Two other products we have read publish a free plan for a community website. Every sentence about them was read off their own pages, and nothing here says which is best.
governance.center (ours)
- What free gives you
- One page: what is coming up, up to 5 documents, who sits on the board and how to reach it. It keeps itself current from your board office.
- Size limit
- None by the size of your community. The page carries up to 5 documents.
- The address
- governance.center/community/your-community. Your own domain name is not available yet.
- Advertising
- None. One line at the foot says the page is from governance.center.
- What it leaves out
- Extra pages, photo galleries and layouts: it is one page, not a site builder. Search engines are offered it only once your community has finished a vote here or is on a plan.
HOA Express
- What free gives you
- A website you build: unlimited pages and storage, with documents, calendar events, board and committee information and news articles.
- Size limit
- Up to 50 households.
- The address
- A temporary address ending .communitysite.com. An address of your own needs a paid plan.
- Advertising
- Advertisements at the bottom of the site, which its help page says are powered by Google Ads and are shown only on the free plan.
- What it leaves out
- Its table marks documents as limited on the free plan, and resident directories and photo galleries as not available on it.
Read at its pricing page, its help page on advertisements and its help page on addresses.
Neighborhood Link
- What free gives you
- A website you build: unlimited additional pages, unlimited document storage, discussion forums and an events calendar.
- Size limit
- None. Its page says there is no limit on the number of residents.
- The address
- On neighborhoodlink.com. Its paid Premium plan gives the site an address of its own to use.
- Advertising
- Its page says free sites are supported by Google advertising.
- What it leaves out
- Public and private areas of the site are part of its paid Premium plan.
Read at its page on HOA websites.
Vendors change their plans without notice, so open the link on a card before you decide. What the paid plans cost a year, product by product, is at what HOA software costs.
QUESTIONS BOARDS ASK
Before you put your name on it.
Is it really free?
Yes. The page, its address on governance.center, your dates, your board, your contact details and up to 5 documents cost nothing, for as long as you use it, and you never have to buy the plan to keep it.
What does the plan add?
The rooms of the Board Office, and what they put on your page: a sign-in for owners, your meetings with their notices and minutes, a page where title companies ask for resale documents, and room for the whole set of documents. The price by community size is on the pricing page.
Are there other free HOA websites?
Yes. Of the products we have read, HOA Express and Neighborhood Link each publish a free plan for a community website. HOA Express: up to 50 households, advertisements at the bottom of the site, and a temporary address ending .communitysite.com. Neighborhood Link: no limit on the number of residents, free sites supported by Google advertising, and an address on neighborhoodlink.com. governance.center: no limit by the size of your community, no advertising, and an address on governance.center. It is one page with up to 5 documents, not a site builder. Each vendor's own pages were read on November 10, 2026, and the cards above link to them.
Can we use our own domain name?
Not yet. Your page lives at governance.center/community/your-community, at an address you choose. Using your own domain name is planned for communities on a plan.
Who can change the page?
The owner of your board office and anyone you make an admin. Everyone else on your team can see the room and the picture of the page, and cannot change it.
Will it show our owners’ names or addresses?
No. Nothing on the page comes from your roster except the name of a person you have seated on the board, and only if you leave that switched on. No email address, telephone number or home address of any owner is ever shown.
What if we change our minds?
Take the page down from the same room. The link stops working at once, the links to its documents stop with it, and everything you wrote is kept in case you publish again.
WHEN YOU ARE READY