For businesses
Win more association work
Common Elements is the platform for community associations: the condominiums, HOAs and cooperatives, and the boards and managers who run them. If your business serves them, this is how they buy, where they are, and how to be the business they find.
Written by the Common Elements editorial team, which includes a Florida-licensed community association manager (LCAM) and insurance broker. Updated October 6, 2026.
Who you would be working for
Common Elements has 363,000+ community associations on record across the country, and 4,000+ management companies that run many of them. Every one of them hires roofers, landscapers, painters, pool companies, engineers, insurance agents and attorneys, and pays from a budget the owners approved.
| State | Associations on record |
|---|---|
| Florida | 83,250 |
| California | 46,918 |
| New York | 32,132 |
| Texas | 24,863 |
| Colorado | 21,865 |
| Illinois | 19,675 |
| Massachusetts | 18,380 |
| North Carolina | 14,158 |
| Virginia | 12,964 |
| Washington | 9,141 |
How associations buy
An association is a not-for-profit corporation spending its owners’ money under a fiduciary duty. That shapes every purchase: a manager keeps a list of approved vendors, larger jobs go out for proposals, the board votes on the contract at a noticed meeting, and in some states the law sets when bids are required. These guides cover each step from the business side.
- How to get on an approved vendor list
Who keeps a condo or HOA approved vendor list, the documents it asks for, and how to stay on it after the first job.
- What Florida associations require from contractors
The written-contract and competitive-bid rules in Chapters 718 and 720, the licence classes associations check, and the insurance paperwork boards expect.
- How association RFPs work
How a board or manager runs a request for proposals, what decides the award, and how to write a proposal a board can compare.
- The vendor playbook for HOA and condo work
The manager in the middle, net-30 invoicing, and the annual budget rhythm.
What your business can do here, free
There are 218,000+ business listings in the Common Elements vendor directory, most of them created from state contractor licence rolls before the business ever signed in. Claiming yours costs nothing and does not require a card.
Claim your listing
Licensed businesses in Florida, Washington and Arizona are already listed from the state licence rolls. Claim yours, or add your business if it is not there.
Say what you do and where
Services, service area, licences and insurance in one profile that boards and managers can check before they call.
Hear about matching work
Opportunity alerts tell you when an association posts a request in your trade and area.
Respond with structured proposals
Proposals on the RFP board use the same fields for every bidder, so the board compares like with like.
Want to see who is already listed in your trade? Browse the vendor directory or the open RFP board.
Founding Vendor
For the first 100 businesses
$49 a month
- Standard Vendor Pro will be $99 a month. The founding rate holds while your subscription stays active.
- The Founding Vendor badge on your profile is permanent.
- Paying never buys organic rank. Claiming, alerts and responding to RFPs stay on the free plan.
Claim your business first; the offer is in your business billing settings after you claim. Claim your business
About this page
Counts are the live Common Elements directory totals, as of October 6, 2026: associations from state registries, county records and other public sources, management companies, and business listings, most of them from state contractor licence rolls. Counts are rounded down.
General information for businesses, not legal advice. Your association’s declaration, bylaws and board policies can add requirements on top of the statutes. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.