We are developers and builders and this is just the kind of great product we love to do.

Another ground up opportunity that will bring brand new product to our booming marketplace.

Moving forward whether with this or another PM make sure that any 'approvals' or 'declines' on workorders are done in writing... email will do.

If background yields an eviction for example and we decline, that app money is now gone....and they signed agreeing to the process...no refunds.

He basically said if someone was able to build an HOA management platform that was both user-friendly and affordable, there would be a real market there.Having deep knowledge of relational databases, java rest APIs, user-friendly UIs and just building/deploying web applications in general, plus having built these types of systems many times before professionally -- albeit in different sectors/industries -- I’m seriously considering a side project to build some type of HOA SAAS (software-as-a-service) product that will hopefully make people’s life’s easier without costing them a fortune.My question is, before I invest time and energy in this, is there actually a market there?

Any thoughts on Microsoft & Zoho, or the other products you mentioned specifically around easy of use/integration w/ Microsoft? 

He declined and didn't counter.

Unless I’m seriously out of the loop, you can’t upgrade from Self Employed to Essentials and transfer your data over - SE is a separate product on a separate OS and it’s a bummer.

They are geared more towards their members and in my experience usually have pretty good loan products.

It's completely unproductive until you pull it out and invest in something productive.