{"id":4742,"date":"2017-11-16T14:23:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T21:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.neighbor.com\/storage-blog\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2024-01-29T18:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:06:36","slug":"hoa-original-sharing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neighbor.com\/storage-blog\/hoa-original-sharing-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"HOA: The Original Sharing\u00a0Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><h3 id=\"the-new-economy\" class=\"graf graf--h3\">The New&nbsp;Economy<\/h3>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">The sharing economy has taken the world by storm over the last decade:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"postList\">\n<li class=\"graf graf--li\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--li-strong\">Airbnb<\/strong>, founded with an air mattress and a living room just nine short years ago, now boasts <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/2017\/08\/11\/airbnb-surpasses-ihg-wyn-hilton-marriott-listings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/2017\/08\/11\/airbnb-surpasses-ihg-wyn-hilton-marriott-listings.html\">more rooms<\/a> than Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Wyndham and Hyatt combined<\/li>\n<li class=\"graf graf--li\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--li-strong\">WeWork<\/strong>, which provides shared office space, now sports a <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stevenbertoni\/2017\/07\/10\/wework-hits-20-billion-valuation-in-new-funding-round\/#73eae5901194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stevenbertoni\/2017\/07\/10\/wework-hits-20-billion-valuation-in-new-funding-round\/#73eae5901194\">$20 billion<\/a> valuation, dominating all preexisting REIT&rsquo;s providing commercial office space<\/li>\n<li class=\"graf graf--li\"><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neighbor.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.neighbor.com\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--li-strong\">Neighbor<\/strong><\/a> is eliminating the need for the $40 billion self storage industry by allowing homeowners to rent out unused space in their garage or basement<\/li>\n<li class=\"graf graf--li\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--li-strong\">Uber<\/strong> took only <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--li-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/liyanchen\/2015\/12\/04\/at-68-billion-valuation-uber-will-be-bigger-than-gm-ford-and-honda\/#1a99ce8e32e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/liyanchen\/2015\/12\/04\/at-68-billion-valuation-uber-will-be-bigger-than-gm-ford-and-honda\/#1a99ce8e32e3\">five and a half years<\/a> to surpass the value of General Motors, Ford and Honda. Uber&rsquo;s most recent funding round gave it a storied valuation of almost $70 billion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">With each passing year, it&rsquo;s becoming crystal clear that the sharing economy is here to stay. It&rsquo;s the new way of doing business. This reality leaves many HOA&rsquo;s asking themselves: how do we adapt to these new trends?<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"the-original-sharing-economy\" class=\"graf graf--h3\">The Original Sharing&nbsp;Economy<\/h3>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Faced with these new trends, it&rsquo;s helpful for HOA&rsquo;s to take a step back and remember their roots. In the early 1960&rsquo;s, residential housing was moving to the suburbs. With the larger spaces came more variability in home\/yard design and size. Newly built freeways offered greater geographic flexibility to homebuyers anxious to find their personal piece of paradise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Prospective homeowners quickly realized that their own idea of paradise was often different from their neighbors&rsquo;. They began searching to live in communities that shared common values of property design and safety. <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Thus, the modern HOA was born.<\/em> Homeowners could now share in the costs of maintaining attractive common areas and community safety. HOA&rsquo;s formed a marketplace, in a sense, collecting dues from members on one side and providing stability, consistency, and services on the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">HOA&rsquo;s were, in fact, the original sharing economy. Not only do they share everything from neighborhood BBQ&rsquo;s to neighborhood parks, but they share a sense of community and belonging. And like any good sharing economy, they are spreading like wildfire, just like Airbnb, WeWork, Neighbor, and Uber are growing today. More than 60 million Americans now participate in an HOA.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"hoas-promote-responsible-sharing\" class=\"graf graf--h3\">HOA&rsquo;s Promote Responsible Sharing<\/h3>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Viewing HOA&rsquo;s as the ancestor of all sharing economies is a useful perspective for HOA managers. Rather than resisting an inevitable trend, HOA managers can see themselves as the leaders that residents look to in order to find ways to responsibly use the sharing economy. Successful HOA&rsquo;s form partnerships with new sharing economy companies in order to provide great benefits to HOA members that fit hand-in-glove with the environment the HOA was commissioned to create.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"using-the-sharing-economy-to-your-advantage\" class=\"graf graf--h3\">Using the Sharing Economy to Your Advantage<\/h3>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">This kind of synergistic partnership often ends up not only benefiting the HOA members but the Association itself. Services like <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neighbor.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.neighbor.com\">Neighbor<\/a>, allow homeowners to make $1,000&ndash;$20,000 per&nbsp;year by renting out unused space in a garage or basement for storage. The homeowner completely controls accessibility (which occurs non-invasively only once every 3&ndash;4 months). This provides homeowners with just the right amount of income each month to offset and pay their monthly HOA fees, all done in a way that is virtually unnoticeable to the community. Combined with a program like <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/gogladly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/gogladly.com\/\">GoGladly<\/a> to collect payments, HOA&rsquo;s can rest easy knowing that members will always have the means to pay dues and a system that automatically collects those dues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">This allows HOA&rsquo;s to focus on what matters most: preserving the shared community values that their members want and need.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New&nbsp;Economy The sharing economy has taken the world by storm over the last decade: Airbnb, founded with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":4743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-side-hustles","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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