ARC HOA moves architectural review online without moving the authority anywhere. Homeowners submit complete applications in minutes; your committee gets an organized packet, checked against your own guidelines, with a recommendation it's free to overrule. Decisions come back in days — consistent, documented, and defensible.
Works with your existing guidelines. If your guidelines are a mess, we fix those too — see below.
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Most architectural delays happen before anyone reviews anything: incomplete forms bouncing back and forth, missing photos, applications sitting in an inbox until the next meeting, and nobody sure what the guidelines actually say about black garage doors. ARC HOA removes exactly that layer — the committee's judgment stays untouched.
A guided form asks for exactly what your community requires for that project type — dimensions, materials, colors, photos, neighbor signatures if your rules call for them. Incomplete applications can't be submitted, so they can't bounce.
Within minutes, the submission is compared to your architectural guidelines. Conflicts get flagged with the specific section cited. Clean applications get noted as such. Either way, the committee opens a packet, not a pile.
The committee sees the full application, the guideline check, and a recommendation — approve, deny, or approve with conditions. It can accept the recommendation in one click or overrule it entirely. The tool advises; volunteers decide.
The homeowner is notified automatically with the reasons attached. The decision, the discussion, and the guideline basis are filed — so when a similar application arrives in two years, or a homeowner claims inconsistent treatment, the record answers for itself.
A review process is only as good as the guidelines behind it. If yours are outdated, contradictory, or silent on everything invented since the fax machine — solar, EV chargers, turf, ADUs — we rewrite them into a document that's clear, current, and enforceable. Many communities do this and ARC HOA together.
Never. It checks applications against your guidelines and makes a recommendation. Every decision is made and recorded by your committee. If the committee disagrees with the recommendation, the committee wins — that's the design, not a workaround.
Paper applications can still be accepted and entered by your manager, so nobody is shut out. In practice, once neighbors see decisions coming back in days instead of weeks, online adoption takes care of itself.
Gray areas get flagged as exactly that — "guidelines don't clearly address this" — and routed to the committee's judgment, with the closest relevant sections cited. Over time, those flags also show you precisely where your guidelines need updating.
No. ARC HOA runs alongside whatever you use today. Homeowners reach it through a link on your community website.
ARC HOA is free for participating communities. The homeowner pays a $49 fee when submitting an application.
Send us your architectural guidelines and we'll show you what your committee's next application could look like.
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