HOA software for Georgia self-managed communities

Most Georgia planned community homeowner associations are governed by the Georgia Property Owners Association Act (O.C.G.A. § 44-3-220 et seq.), commonly called the POAA. The POAA establishes the legal framework for creation, operation, and governance of planned community HOAs — including member rights, assessment authority, lien rights, and enforcement powers. Georgia condominium associations are governed separately under the Georgia Condominium Act (O.C.G.A. § 44-3-70 et seq.). Critically, Georgia HOAs must formally elect to be governed by the POAA — communities formed before the POAA or that did not opt in may operate under their recorded covenants alone. If you're unsure which statute governs your community, your governing documents or a Georgia HOA attorney can confirm. Hivepoint is designed for self-managed HOA communities — not licensed property management companies.

Georgia does not have a specific state licensing requirement for community association managers (unlike Florida, which requires a CAM license through the DBPR). This makes self-management a practical and common choice for Georgia planned communities, particularly in the Atlanta metro and surrounding counties where HOA density is high. Hivepoint is built specifically for those self-managed boards — volunteer-friendly tools, no per-unit pricing, and no property management company markup. If you do hire a professional manager in Georgia, look for industry certifications (CMCA, AMS, PCAM) from CAI as markers of qualified candidates.

Under the POAA, Georgia HOAs have the authority to collect assessments and, for communities that have elected POAA governance, to place a lien on a property for unpaid assessments. The lien process requires proper notice and must follow the procedures in your governing documents and the POAA. As with Texas, the legal strength of a lien depends on the completeness of your documentation: the full payment history, every notice sent, all fines imposed, and the board resolutions authorizing enforcement. Hivepoint builds this record automatically in the course of normal dues tracking and enforcement operations — so the documentation is complete if an attorney ever needs to initiate a lien filing.

The Atlanta metro — including Gwinnett, Forsyth, Cherokee, Hall, Paulding, and Cobb counties — has one of the highest concentrations of HOA communities in the Southeast. Several factors create ongoing management pressure: rapid population growth with constant homeowner turnover, a large volume of new planned community developments transitioning from developer control, and communities spread across unincorporated county land where municipal services are limited and the HOA fills gaps in roads, stormwater, and common area maintenance. Self-managed boards in these communities deal with frequent new homeowner onboarding, deed restriction enforcement against turnover-related improvements, and the organizational challenges of tracking a constantly changing roster.

Georgia sees significant developer turnover activity, particularly in the Atlanta metro suburban counties where new planned communities are continuously being built and handed off to homeowner boards. At turnover, developers are required to hand over association records — financial accounts, governing documents, contracts, and homeowner information — but these records are often incomplete or disorganized. Hivepoint gives the incoming board a structured system to import and organize everything from day one: governing documents, financial history, the homeowner roster, and meeting minutes from the developer period. Starting organized is the single most important thing a newly formed Georgia HOA board can do.

Yes. Hivepoint is built by DryDev Professional Services, based in Lawrenceville, Georgia — Gwinnett County. Our first customer is a Gwinnett County community. The Atlanta metro HOA market is what we know firsthand: the density of planned communities in suburban Gwinnett, Forsyth, and Cherokee counties, the developer turnover cycle that creates new boards every year, and the self-management culture that's common throughout the region. Hivepoint is not a Silicon Valley product applied to HOAs — it was built here, for communities like the ones we live in.