What does this cost each home?
Put in a cost you have been quoted and the number of homes that will share it. Get cost per home per month and per year, what it would add to dues, and up to three scenarios side by side.
- No account, no email, no paywall on the result.
- Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
- You supply the money. We supply the math.
1. Your community
Names the working sheet below, and the printout.
Supply this and each scenario also shows what it would add to dues. Leave it blank and that column stays hidden.
2. The cost you have been quoted
Every figure here is yours. We publish no price for any service and seed nothing — put in the number on the proposal in front of you and this divides it.
Option A
Anything you like — including pool cleaning, landscaping, porter services, amenity staffing.
What that is per home
Per home, per month
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Option A
Per home, per year
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Total per month
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0 homes
Total per year
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Worth knowing
- Enter the number of homes to see what this works out to per home.
- Enter the cost you have been quoted — every figure here comes from your number.
Your work
Everything you type stays in this browser. Nothing is uploaded and no account is created. A shareable link carries these scenarios and your dues figure inside the address itself, so send it only to people you want to see them.
Why the per-home number is the one that moves a room
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An annual total is an argument. A monthly figure per home is a decision.
A five-figure annual number reads as an expense to be resisted. The same number divided across the homes that pay it reads as what it is — a monthly line an owner can weigh against what they get. Nothing changed except the unit.
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Proposals quoted differently are not comparable until they are
One vendor quotes a year, another quotes a month, and one of them serves a different phase with a different home count. Per home, per month is the only column where all three sit on the same footing, and it takes one division to get there.
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The dues question comes up anyway
Someone at the meeting will ask what this does to dues. Having the figure already — with the percentage beside it — is the difference between a two-minute answer and a deferred vote.
Questions worth answering
- Do you tell me what a service should cost?
- No — the figure comes from you. Enter the number on the proposal in front of you and the tool divides it. What a service costs is whatever the companies bidding on your property put in writing, which is why the only number here is yours.
- Should I raise dues by this amount?
- That is a board decision under your governing documents, and this tool takes no view on it. It shows what your cost is per home and what it would add to a dues figure you entered. What you're required to do before changing dues is in your documents and your state's statute.
- Why does the yearly figure not equal the monthly figure times twelve?
- Because both are computed from your original number rather than from each other. Rounding a monthly per-home figure to the cent and then multiplying by twelve drifts by a dollar or more on a large community — which is exactly the discrepancy a treasurer spots and a board then distrusts.
- What if the vendors serve different numbers of homes?
- Enter the right home count on each scenario. That is the case the per-home column exists for — a bigger invoice covering more homes can be the cheaper share, and the comparison table will say so.
- Does anything I type get uploaded?
- No. The whole tool runs in your browser tab. Your figures are saved in this browser so you can come back to them, and they are sent nowhere. Clearing the worksheet removes them.
- What does HOAcrew do that this page does not?
- This page turns one number into another. Inside HOAcrew, you post a scope, vendors submit proposals against it, your board compares and selects one, and then scheduling, invoicing and service requests run in one place. Your first community is free.
Taking these numbers to a board vote? The board proposal vote templates turn them into a comparison sheet and a roll-call record. Budgeting an amenity from scratch? Start with the staffing calculator.
One proposal divided is math. Three is a decision.
You now know what the quote in front of you costs each home. The thing that tells you whether it is a good number is a second and a third quote for the same scope. Put the work out as a request for proposals and vendors price it and submit against it — then bring their figures back here and divide them the same way.
Your board compares and selects; nobody selects for you. Afterwards the schedule, the service requests and each vendor’s own invoices sit in one view. Your first community is free, then $25 a month each.
Sales tax and payment processing are always separate line items on an invoice, so a per-home figure worked out from a service price will not be the whole of what a home pays.
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