$0 HOA Dues
What if your HOA paid you instead of always billing you? Local businesses want to reach the homeowners in your community. Let them pay for that access — and put the money against dues.
What could it mean for your community?
Move the numbers to your own community and see the arithmetic. This is a model, not an offer — it shows how the maths works, not what you will receive.
per month
Roughly is fine.
What local advertisers pay to reach one household for a year.
The rest covers selling the advertising, running the campaigns and the platform.
Read this before you quote it to anyone. These are illustrative figures, not a forecast, an offer, or a promise of savings. Real numbers depend on advertiser demand in your market, your community’s size, and your association’s governing documents and accounting rules. Getting to a genuine $0 needs advertising revenue equal to the entire assessment — which is the goal, not the starting point.
The problem
Roughly 78 million Americans live in an HOA, condo or community association — about 35% of U.S. housing. Every one of those households gets the same letter every year, and the number on it only ever moves in one direction.
Meanwhile, the businesses that most want to reach those exact households — roofers, landscapers, HVAC, pest control, restaurants, insurance, home improvement — are paying to advertise to an entire metro area, most of which will never call them.
The idea
Put those two facts together. Businesses pay to reach a specific community. A negotiated share of that revenue goes back to the HOA and is applied against what homeowners owe.
Worked example. A 500-home community with $1,000 annual dues collects $500,000 a year. If the Drinking & HOAing network generates $100,000 of sponsorship and advertising revenue tied to that community, and a negotiated share flows back, residents see a line on their statement that reads:
“Your Community Rewards saved every homeowner $100 on HOA dues this year.”
Figures are industry estimates for context, not a projection of savings.
What we are and are not promising
- We are not promising a fixed 10%, 20% or 50% reduction.
- We are saying participating communities can earn advertising and partnership revenue that may be applied toward HOA expenses.
- We prove it one community at a time, publish the numbers, and let the results do the selling.
How it rolls out
One community
A single pilot HOA. We sell local sponsorships against it and publish exactly what came in.
Ten communities
Enough to show advertisers a repeatable package and to prove the savings weren’t a fluke.
One hundred
A real network. National brands become viable alongside the local advertisers.
The leaderboard
Every participating community’s numbers go on a public board. It becomes the marketing for the program itself. See the HOA Savings Challenge →
Want your community in the pilot? Email impaired@drinkingandhoaing.com with your community name, approximate number of homes, and your role. Board members and property managers welcome. So are residents who just want to forward this to their board.