For self-managed homeowners associations
Your management company quit. You still have a budget to pass.
Bounds is the system of record for small associations running themselves: dues, documents, violations, and the deadlines your declaration imposes. Built for boards under fifty doors, because that's who nobody else builds for.
Why this exists
Small associations get left behind.
50
The door count where the math stops working.
Management companies price on labour, so below about fifty homes the fee stops covering the work. Associations that size get dropped, or quoted a rate they can't justify.
$4,600
What a small association can spend on management in a year.
For many boards that's most of what dues bring in, going to an outside firm instead of landscaping, insurance, and reserves.
0
How many people are left when they go.
No portal, no ledger, no document library. A spreadsheet, a shared inbox, and whatever the last treasurer remembered to hand over.
What you get
Every lot, at a glance
Balances, aging, and who can vote, on one screen. Dues assessed, payments recorded, and a ledger that reconciles, so the treasurer isn't rebuilding it in a spreadsheet every quarter.
Lots
21 OF 21
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
Your governing documents, actually usable
The declaration, bylaws, plat, and every rule in them, searchable by section, in plain language, with the recorded text one click away. When a homeowner asks whether they can put up a fence, the answer takes ten seconds.
Declaration
§9.5
Fencing
ARC APPROVAL REQUIREDA fence can go up in the rear yard only, no taller than six feet, in wood or black metal. The architectural committee has to approve the plan before work starts.
RECORDED TEXT · BK 1188 PG 407
Enforcement that follows your own rules
Most declarations spell out exactly what a violation notice must contain and how long an owner has to respond. Bounds reads those requirements from your documents and won't let a fine be imposed until the process has actually been followed.
Notice of violation
2 REQUIREMENTS REMAINING
This notice cannot be sent until your declaration's requirements are met.
- State the specific rule that was broken§11.2(a)
- Give the owner thirty days to cure§11.3
Deadlines you didn't know you had
An architectural request nobody answers in thirty days may be automatically denied. An unpaid assessment becomes lien-eligible on a specific date. A budget has to be adopted before the assessment year begins. Bounds tracks all of it and tells you what's next.
What's next
Architectural request, Lot 110
Auto-approved if no answer
2026-09-14
Assessment 103 becomes lien-eligible
Ninety days delinquent
2026-09-30
Budget adoption deadline
Before the assessment year begins
2026-11-01
How it's different
Set up from your declaration, not a template.
Every association's governing documents are different. Quorum might be thirty-five percent or a majority. An architectural committee's silence might mean approval, or denial. Late fees, cure periods, and hearing windows are all specific to what was recorded with your county.
Bounds is configured from your recorded documents, so the software enforces your rules rather than generic ones. That work happens during setup and it's included.
- Quorum threshold
- FROM YOUR DOCUMENTS
- Architectural review period
- FROM YOUR DOCUMENTS
- Fine hearing window
- FROM YOUR DOCUMENTS
- Cure periods
- FROM YOUR DOCUMENTS
- Delinquency and lien timing
- FROM YOUR DOCUMENTS
- Vote allocation per lot
- FROM YOUR DOCUMENTS
What it costs
Flat monthly. No per-door pricing.
For associations up to 50 homes. Billed annually to the association.
- Setup from your recorded documents
- Unlimited board members and homeowners
- Dues, ledger, and financial reporting
- Document library
- Violations and architectural review
- Online payments
- Email notices
- Support by email
Larger associations and multi-phase communities are quoted individually. There's no contract, so associations can leave at any time and take their data with them.
A management company for an association this size typically runs $300 to $400 a month.
Questions boards ask
Questions boards ask first.
Boards this size have been running on spreadsheets for years.
You don't have to.
Serving associations in East Tennessee and beyond.