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

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? 

Is this a valid concern or is this like trying to time the market and/or just overthinking it? 

The motto "everyone needs to start somewhere" is not valid in response to not knowing what you are doing when you start doing it.

Sami, I'd wait until after closing because I don't think a lease is valid if you're not the property owner.

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.

But using the 50% rule of thumb as a conservative start to estimate capex/vacancy/repairs, they did not technicaly cash flow based on .5 x gross rent - PITI.I assume this is because with a brand new product, maintenance and capex will be really low for a long time am I right?