HOA common area

HOA Common-Area
Defensible Space Inspection

The client is the association. $499 covers one named common-area map: slopes, fuel modification, shared lots, and the edges that sit against member property. This visit covers the common area you name. Each member's yard is a separate residential inspection.

Cancellations with less than 24 hours’ notice keep 50% of the fee. See Terms.

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Who this is for

A board that needs a
file for the ground
it actually controls.

A commercial campus with a business on the door is the commercial inspection. A single member who wants their own lot inspected buys the residential inspection themselves.

You

Board, manager, or landscape committee

You need a photographed action plan of observable conditions on common area, written so the association can budget and act, without the visit turning into a contractor’s bid.

Not this page

A homeowner on one lot

Your own yard is a residential inspection. Using the HOA page for that hides who the client is, and it mixes association ground with private lots.

$499 common-area scope

  • Common area the board names in the agreement: slopes, fuel-mod strips, shared lots, entries
  • Observable ignition-zone conditions on that ground, photographed
  • Neighboring exposure where it can be seen from the scoped common area
  • Fire-department access on the association’s property as scoped
  • A dated report the board can keep with its records
  • One named common-area map at $499

What the board can do with it

  • Budget fuel-mod work by priority, not by who calls loudest
  • Keep a dated, photographed record with the association's files
  • Give the landscape committee a written scope to bid out
  • Show members that the common ground was reviewed, and what comes next
Buy this inspection

The board is the client.
The map is the scope.

I inspect the common ground the association names. Member lots stay out unless the board buys those as named parcels.

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Christopher Gallego
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HOA common area

HOA Common-Area Defensible Space Inspection

$499flat

Board, manager, or landscape committee. A photographed action plan for the common area the agreement names.

  • Common area the board names: slopes, fuel-mod, shared lots, entries
  • Observable ignition-zone conditions on that ground, photographed
  • Neighboring exposure visible from the scoped common area
  • A dated report the board can keep with its records
  • One named common-area map at $499

Cancellations with less than 24 hours’ notice keep 50% of the fee. See Terms.

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Association, not 40 houses

A member who wants their own lot inspected books the residential visit themselves. Default scope is common area.

A record for the board's files

A dated, photographed report the board can keep and budget against.

Built for budget season

Priorities in order, so the board funds the first work first.

A scope the committee can bid

The landscape committee gets a written, photographed list to take to bid on its own terms.

Do you enforce CC&Rs or recommend fines?

No. I do not run hearings, write fines, or sell a landscape contract from the visit. The board gets the record and decides.

Do you inspect every member’s yard?

Only if the board buys those lots as named parcels. The default scope is common area. A member who wants their own house inspected books the residential visit themselves.

Who is the client on the agreement?

The association, or the manager signing for it. The report goes to that client. Individual owners are not added as extra clients unless the board’s agreement says so.

Can this replace the fire district’s inspection of the community?

No. Ask the responsible fire authority what it accepts. This is a private photographed record of the common ground named in the agreement, not the district’s own inspection.

Is this a portfolio program with a dashboard?

Not on this page. This is a $499 field visit and a dated report for one named common-area map. Recurring schedules and a multi-property program are a different product, and they are not sold as a subscription from this page.