Ask your HOA bylaws. Get the answer with the section cited.
The Board Assistant reads your own Declaration, bylaws and amendments, answers in plain English, and shows the document and section behind every answer. It’s included in the free plan.
- Included in the free plan
- No credit card
- Answers from your own documents
Not for short stays. Leases must run at least 12 months [1], and a 2019 amendment asks owners to give the board a copy of every lease within 10 days [2].
- Bylaws of Maple Hollow Condominium Association · Article VIII, Section 3. Leasing
- First Amendment to the Bylaws (2019) · Section 2. Copies of leases
Answers from your documents, not the internet.
The Board Assistant answers questions about your HOA using only the governing documents your board uploads. Under every answer it lists the document and section it used, so you can check it in one tap.
Reads your own documents
Your Declaration, bylaws, amendments and rules. Not generic HOA advice from the web.
Shows where each answer comes from
Each source names the document and section. Tap it to open the document at that passage.
Checks for later amendments
When an amendment changed a rule, it's built to lead with the current one. When two documents disagree, it shows both and asks your board to confirm.
Says when your documents don't say
If a number or deadline isn't in your documents, it's built to tell you so rather than guess.
The questions boards ask every year.
Ask in your own words. The answer depends on what your documents say.
- Can we rent out units, and for how long?
- What's the quorum for a vote of the owners?
- How much notice do owners get before the annual meeting?
- Who pays to fix a roof leak, the owner or the association?
- We only have 3 board members. Is that a problem under our bylaws?
Old scans and phone photos work too.
Upload the papers you have. Scanned pages are turned into searchable text, so an old photocopy can be asked questions like any other document.
- PDFsDigital or scanned
- Word documents.docx
- Photos of the pagesJPG, PNG or iPhone HEIC
- A word that can’t be read is marked unreadable, never guessed.
Questions about asking your bylaws.
Can AI read my HOA bylaws?
Yes. Upload your Declaration, bylaws, amendments and rules, and GnomeOwner turns them into searchable text. The Board Assistant answers from those passages and lists the document and section behind each answer.
Is the answer legal advice?
No. It tells you what your own documents say and where they say it. It can be wrong and it isn't a lawyer, so check the cited section, and talk to an attorney before acting on anything binding.
What if our bylaws are an old scan?
That works. Scanned PDFs and photos of the pages are turned into searchable text. Any word that can't be read is marked unreadable rather than guessed.
What if our bylaws were amended?
Upload the amendments too. When a later amendment changed a rule, the assistant is built to lead with the current rule and say the earlier one was replaced. When two documents disagree, it shows both and asks your board to confirm which one controls.
Is the Board Assistant free?
Yes. It's part of the free plan, with no card and no time limit; usage limits apply per association. Paid plans add online dues collection, where dues go straight to your HOA's own bank account, plus automation. What each plan includes
Is our HOA's data private?
Yes. Your documents stay inside your association: board members you invite manage them, and owners see only what the board shares. We never sell your data or use it to train AI models, and the AI providers we use can't train on it either. How your data is protected
Check the source, every time.
The assistant is one part of GnomeOwner, HOA management software for self-managed boards.
Upload your bylaws. Ask your first question.
Add your governing documents and the Board Assistant is ready to answer. Free to start, no credit card.
