Architectural review software for HOA & POA boards
Your board is responsible for protecting property values and treating every homeowner fairly, while volunteers run the whole thing on nights and weekends. Curb Approve gives you a modern, defensible architectural review process without adding to anyone's workload.
Sound familiar?
- Requests sit in an inbox while homeowners wait weeks for an answer
- Decisions live in scattered emails, so there is no clean record when one is challenged
- Inconsistent approvals expose the board to selective-enforcement claims
- Response deadlines and 'deemed approved' clauses are tracked by memory, if at all
With Curb Approve
- Faster turnaround that homeowners actually notice
- A defensible, searchable record behind every decision
- Consistent reviews tied to your published guidelines
- Deadlines tracked automatically, so nothing is 'deemed approved' by accident
Defensible records
A complete audit trail of every request, document, decision, and appeal, ready if a decision is ever questioned.
Deadline tracking
Every request shows its received date and days remaining, so your board never misses a response window.
Consistent decisions
Reviewer checklists tied to your guidelines, plus visible precedent, keep decisions evenhanded.
Less volunteer labor
Guided submissions arrive complete, cutting the back-and-forth that burns out committee members.
The same clear process, fitted to the way you work.
Self-managed associations
Give a volunteer board a professional review process without buying a broad management platform or becoming the neighborhood filing cabinet.
Professionally managed communities
Keep board oversight and committee decisions visible while your manager handles intake, communication, and records in the same workflow.
Large and master-planned communities
Configure project categories, sections or villages, deposits, committee packets, and response deadlines around a more complex review process.
A review workflow people can actually follow.
- 01
Set the standard
We load your governing guidelines, project categories, required documents, and approved decision language.
- 02
Review on time
Complete applications enter a date-stamped queue with the rules, documents, and deadline visible.
- 03
Keep the record
The decision, conditions, notices, and appeal stay attached to the original request.
Recommended for hoa & poa boards
The HOA Architectural Review Process: A Complete Guide
How HOA architectural review works, from a homeowner modification request through the committee decision, appeal, and permanent record.
Read the guide →PlaybooksHow to Modernize Your HOA's Architectural Review Process
A practical, board-ready playbook for moving architectural review off paper: the case for change, what to standardize first, and how to run a low-risk pilot.
Read the guide →GuidesHow to Avoid Selective Enforcement in Architectural Review
Learn how consistent guidelines, review checklists, and searchable decision records can reduce selective-enforcement risk in HOA architectural review.
Read the guide →Questions, answered.
Does this replace our management company?
No, it works alongside them. Curb Approve standardizes the architectural review workflow whether your community is self-managed or professionally managed.
Can we keep our own guidelines?
Yes. Your categories, rules, required documents, and decision language are configured to match your community exactly.
Bring your architectural review process online.
A 20-minute walkthrough built around hoa & poa boards. No commitment, just a look at what is possible.
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