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Posted By LoriM15 on 05/18/2022 9:01 AM
All of our information is sent out via an "eblast" to the emails of our homeowners. That includes notices of upcoming meetings and agendas. No encryption or login required.
Our monthly financials and minutes of the meetings are posted on our website which requires a homeowner login. My state has open records laws, so any homeowner can request to view almost any document except personnel and legal issues. When we do our annual budget we send out the whole budget information with actuals from the previous year. So there is really no private finanacial information.
I don't see why you can't just email the information to your homeowners.
I love conversations where people start talking about their secure portals. There's nothing all that "secure" about an ecosystem where homeowners download information and/or where staff and managers email attached documents that end up "in the wild." Anyone can take that information and send it anywhere by email, through a link, on a thumb drive, etc. By the way, 99%+ of CIC regards aren't actually confidential. Consider that potential purchasers receive quite a lot of data as part of a resale certificate.
The concept of having "secure" portals to access non-confidential data is simply a way for quite a lot of companies to sell a product. Oh, the company that operates HOATalk is one of them

-- NOT saying that some of these products aren't value-added, but the term "secure" is misused.
There *IS* something to be said about transmitting data by email that is likely accomplished more efficiently in another way (for example, sending a link to a system that requires authentication, so that all the documents live in one place that's not someone's inbox).
Regards,
Steve