Finding a property management company for your HOA usually means Googling a handful of names and hoping for a callback. LotWize's marketplace turns that search into a filterable directory with a built-in way to request an introduction.
A self-managed board decides it is time to hire a property management company. Maybe the volunteer treasurer is moving, maybe the community has grown past what three board members can handle in their spare time, maybe the special assessment season burned everyone out. Whatever the trigger, the next step is almost always the same: someone opens a search engine, types "HOA management company near me," and gets a page of generic marketing sites that all promise "full-service management" without saying who actually services a 40-unit community two towns over.
There is no reliable way to compare options side by side. Boards end up asking a realtor for a name, checking a Facebook group for complaints, or calling companies off a Google Maps list and waiting days for a callback that may never come. The problem cuts both ways — a PMC that wants to grow its portfolio has no inbound channel except word of mouth and cold outreach, because there has never been a shared, searchable place where self-managed boards and management companies can find each other.
LotWize's marketplace is built to close that gap directly. It is a public, filterable directory of property management companies at lotwize.com/marketplace, paired with a lightweight way for a board to request an introduction without ever picking up the phone.
The marketplace page lets anyone — a board member, a self-managed community, a homeowner researching whether their HOA should hire outside help — browse property management companies and filter by state, city, or specialty. Each listing card shows what a board actually needs to make a first cut:
That last field is deliberately imprecise. Instead of showing an exact count — which would tell every visitor, including competitors, exactly how large a PMC's book of business is — LotWize buckets it into ranges: 0, 1–5, 6–20, or 20+. A board gets a real sense of scale (a two-person shop versus a large regional operator) without the platform exposing a competitor-sensitive number that a management company never agreed to publish precisely. It is a small design choice, but it reflects a broader principle: a public marketplace should give buyers enough signal to decide, without handing away information the listed businesses did not choose to disclose.
Clicking into a listing opens a detail page with an introduction request form. A board fills in the HOA's name and address, optionally the unit count, and their own contact name, email, and phone number, with an optional free-text message describing what they are looking for. There is no account to create and no sales call to schedule first — the form exists specifically so a board can express interest in five minutes instead of playing phone tag across three time zones of business hours.
Submitting the form does two things. It creates an introduction request tied to that PMC's listing, with a status that starts at "pending" and moves to "contacted," "accepted," or "declined" as the management company works the lead, and it sends the requesting board an automatic confirmation email — a small detail, but one that matters when a volunteer board member is tracking outreach to three or four companies at once.
On the property management company's side, every incoming request lands in a requests inbox inside their LotWize account settings, showing the HOA's name, address, unit count, contact details, and message in one place. No separate CRM, no shared inbox full of unstructured contact-form emails. For a company actively trying to grow, that structured inbox is the difference between a lead that gets followed up on and one that gets lost in a Gmail thread three weeks later.
The other half of the marketplace is a self-serve listing editor, available to any PMC with an active LotWize account. A company controls its own public profile — name, logo, description, service states and cities, specialties, years in business, and testimonials — and the listing only appears publicly once the PMC flips it to active. Nothing is published without the company choosing to, and nothing waits on LotWize approval to go live.
That self-serve design has an honest tradeoff worth naming: LotWize does not independently verify licensing, insurance, or service claims before a listing goes public. This is a directory of companies describing themselves accurately, not an audited vetting service. A board evaluating a PMC through the marketplace should still do the diligence it would do with any vendor — references, state licensing, and a close read of the management agreement. The marketplace shortens the discovery step, not the diligence step.
For the management company, the value is a genuine inbound channel that did not exist before: a profile discoverable by any self-managed community searching by exact service area and specialty, rather than cold outreach or word of mouth alone.
Because the directory and the introduction form are both public, unauthenticated endpoints, LotWize rate-limits both to keep them from becoming a scraping or spam target: the listing endpoint allows up to 100 requests per hour per IP address, while the introduction request endpoint is capped at 5 submissions per hour and 20 per day per IP address. The tighter limit is intentional — a form that writes a database row on every submission is a more attractive abuse target than a read-only listing page. Legitimate boards browsing the directory or submitting a single request never come close to either limit; the caps exist for the edge case, not the normal path.
The marketplace solves the step that comes before everything else LotWize has built around management transitions. Once a board has chosen a company — through the marketplace, a referral, or an existing relationship — the handoff itself is a separate, structured process: a board vote, the receiving company's formal acceptance, and automated billing reconciliation, covered in our post on LotWize's Community Transfer workflow. The marketplace helps a board find and make first contact with the right property management company; the Community Transfer workflow governs what happens once the decision is made.
LotWize's marketplace is a public, filterable directory of property management companies at lotwize.com/marketplace, searchable by state, city, and specialty.
Listing cards show company description, rating, years in business, and a bucketed community count (0, 1–5, 6–20, 20+) that signals scale without exposing an exact, competitor-sensitive number.
A board requests an introduction with a simple form — HOA name, address, optional unit count, and contact details — with no account required and an automatic confirmation email on submission.
Property management companies manage their own listing self-serve, choose when to make it public, and see every incoming request in a structured inbox with a pending → contacted → accepted → declined pipeline.
The directory is self-reported, not independently vetted by LotWize, and both public endpoints are rate-limited (100/hour for listings, 5/hour and 20/day for introduction requests) to prevent scraping and spam.
Visit lotwize.com/marketplace and filter by state, city, or specialty. Each result shows a description, rating, years in business, service area, and a general sense of portfolio size. Click into any listing to see full details and submit an introduction request.
No. The marketplace is a self-serve directory — each property management company creates and controls its own listing, including its description, service area, and specialties. LotWize does not independently audit licensing, insurance, or service claims before a listing goes live, so boards should still perform their own due diligence before signing a management agreement.
The request is saved with a "pending" status and routed to that company's requests inbox inside their LotWize account. You'll receive an automatic confirmation email. The property management company then reaches out directly, and updates the request's status as they work it — contacted, accepted, or declined.
No. Browsing the directory and submitting an introduction request are both free and do not require creating an account. Property management companies that want to publish and manage a listing need an active LotWize account for their portfolio.
Yes. A PMC manages its own company name, logo, description, service states and cities, specialties, years in business, and testimonials through a self-serve settings page, and the listing is only visible in the public marketplace once the company activates it.
Tired of cold-calling management companies off a search results page? Browse the LotWize marketplace to filter property management companies by state, city, and specialty, and request an introduction in minutes. If you run a management company looking for inbound leads instead of cold outreach, start a free LotWize trial and publish your own listing. And once you've picked a company, see how LotWize's Community Transfer workflow turns the handoff into a governed, board-approved process instead of a records-losing scramble.
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