Benefits

	Primary Benefits
	Secure: Each registered user has their own unique and private password for secure access Easy to Use: If you can send an email attachment, you can post to your CondoConduit site. Effective: Reach more owners each month with important issues and postings using our unique push-pull technology. Private: Different levels of access for Residents, Owners, Board Members and Administrators restricts access to 'need to know' Attractive: Each site is professionally and uniquely custom-designed for your association. Dependable: CondoConduit provides a 99.9% monthly uptime guarantee. Customizable: Easily grant or restrict access to each feature. Free Upgrades Forever: Features are constantly added and enhanced - at no extra charge to existing subscribers. Economical: Competatively priced for each association size.

Why an association would want a web site:

• Faster and Cheaper distribution of Meeting Minutes and Announcements
• Instant access to Rules and By-Laws by all owners
• Instant notification of work repairs, and easy confirmation of scheduled work by owners
• Online HOA Newsletters <click for detailed article>

A condominium web site allows unit owners to share information amongst themselves and with boardmembers, committee members, property managers and others in a quick and easy manner. For most board members, there is often not enough time to perform the day-to-day activities and also keep up with what is going on in the community. With a condominium web site, residents who miss a meeting or a newsletter don't have to miss out. They can catch up and get involved on their own schedule. When it is convenient, they can visit the condominium web site, catch up on what is going on, offer their feedback and opinion and even converse with their neighbors. The Internet is a powerful force in modern society and can be used to help create a more involved, better informed community.

Why wouldn't you do it yourselves:

After all, many communities have. However, if you look at these "home grown" sites on the Internet you will see:

• CondoConduit is LESS EXPENSIVE than doing it yourself!
  • Web hosting fees for even a static web page is $20 or $30 a month, with a setup fee of $100 or more.
  • You often have to pay an additional $75 for your domain name!
  • Data handling components for postings and documents costs an additional $15 a month, with an additional $50 setup fee!
  • Total costs for the above services START AT more than $200 startup, with a MINIMUM of $35 monthly (more as you store more documents on the system)
  • These hosting prices are based upon minimal document storage space - so your actual costs are likely to be even higher!
  • These costs do NOT include professional web design of any sort.
• Self-made sites are very limited in functionality
  • Few, if any, have message boards, work requests, email change notification, and other features available with the Ideate Web Site Service.
• Sites have not been updated in a long time and no longer offer timely, valuable information to their residents
  • This is usually caused when the "local computer expert" either becomes overwhelmed with the task of constantly updating the site and loses interest or moves out of the community. At that point the community is stuck because the expert was the only one who knew how to maintain and update the site.
• It takes months for a community to create it's own web site
  • We have automated and simplified the task of maintaining the site to the point that anyone with a web browser can do it without knowing anything more than how to type and click a mouse. In addition, we are constantly coming up with new and exciting features for our web site service and these are automatically available to your association without having to develop them yourself. Finally, while it may take months for your community to develop it's own web site, an Ideate Condominium Web Site is usually up and running in LESS THAN ONE WEEK

Special Benefits for Board Members:

• Board-Only Discussion Areas keep the team productive between meetings and better prepared during meetings
• Latest HOA legal issues and news
• Keep informed of repair status
• Written record of past discussions reduces wasted rehashing of old issues

Why CondoConduit:

• Find out what makes CondoConduit Unique among our competitors
• CondoConduit will perform Search Engine submissions to major search engines - at no additional cost!