Association Features

Mutual Vision enjoys working in conjunction with customers to prepare distinctive home pages that represent unique communities. Customization starts by incorporating descriptive wording, pictures, and logos that customers choose and provide. Color schemes, font preferences, and page layout options are reviewed and selected to produce an attractive product. A “Notice” feature controllable by each local administrator is optional for home pages. This feature is great for promoting announcements, such as event or team sign-ups. Added graphic design and copy writing services are optional at an extra cost.

”How do I find you?” The simple answer would be to direct them to your website. Maps and directions can be a page as part of your directory.

A Mutual Vision provided website permits the simple and efficient publication and dissemination of information on contacts, mailing address, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, opening and closing times, facilities availability and rental costs, rules, and other information.

Classified Ads from all of your members or local vendors can be produced within a Mutual Vision site on a template with simple text entry boxes. Advertisements might include anything from baby sitting or lawn care services to the sale of used golf clubs or old bicycles. The Local Administrator can approve each ad prior to posting and can set a duration time for each ad so that it will automatically disappear from the site at the designated time.

The Mutual Vision site uses simple drop down menus and text boxes on a template to allow your local administrator to input calendar information with very little effort. Our customers can swiftly update an ongoing schedule of events, meetings, deadlines, and details on special occasions. Potential home buyers can get a glimpse of your community’s life if you decide to publish the calendar in the public portion of the site.

Record and share community history, and display it where it will be read by interested parties, including potential homebuyers. The "Document Manger" function on Mutual Vision’s site will allow words and pictures to be uploaded onto the site as a new page from either a Word or PDF file.

Using a Mutual Vision website tool, information about homes for sale and for lease in the community can be displayed including size, description, price, pictures and other details. The Document Manager supports this feature using easy to produce Word or PDF files.

Keep your site fresh and up to date by using external sources for information. RSS/XML feeds allow you to subscribe to news services and post articles that would be of interest you your members (like the articles in the right column of this page).

All property owners, and property management staff will have secure password protected access from the home page to the log on page that links to the private features section of a site. Mutual Vision’s "What's New" feature can be added to the log on page and will offer a quick view of recently added information and up coming events. The “Notice” function for announcements is also available and can be included here.

Contact information on all community residents, management and staff can be stored in the web database and can be readily accessible by each of the other members from home, work, or when traveling.

Customers are able to create a library of CC&Rs using the Document Manager function on a Mutual Vision site. Posting these documents on the web makes them readily available to all new property owners, in addition to long time residents, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

An association's required forms can be conveniently made available on-line in order to avoid time consuming requests to provide simple access to this paperwork.

A neighborly Welcome Kit project can generate and disseminate a wealth of helpful information for new residents. Content can rang from information on churches and schools to reviews on local restaurants and health clubs. All content can be readily created, maintained and revised on a Mutual Vision provided site.

Vigilant neighbors watching out for each other is an important element in crime prevention and safety promotion. Neighborhood Watch is a volunteer program that involves and motives owners to get involved. A Mutual Vision provided site supports this program by facilitating the sharing of advice and information. Mutual Vision's Grapevine e-mail can be tied into the program to issue timely bulletins and alerts, and to encourage attendance at meetings.

Mutual Vision’s “Committee Builder” supports a web page for your Board of Directors and for each Committee in the association. Your local administrator can draw the names and contact information for members identifies on these pages from the Owners’ Directory with a few simple mouse clicks. The Document Manager function can also add files of any kind to the Board’s page and to any committee page for ease of reference by the association members or by other committee members.

Celebrate special events and special achievements. This feature allows the display of digitized pictures uploaded from files of photographs taken by digital camera or created by scanning.

The Links Manager generates a page of Web site Links that can help members find popular and / or recommended Web resources. Once again, a template is available for ease of use.

The security control programming on Mutual Vision’s product will allow you to set the security level on each website page that will designate it as either public or private. In addition, you’ll be able to designate each person accessing the site with a custom selected level of security clearance. Private pages will require authentication by the user with his or her selected user name and password for access. The association's local administrator can assist when passwords are forgotten.

Our association customers substantially control and operate their own Mutual Vision supplied information and communication web based system by using our proprietary “Web Administration Tool Kit.” This kit has been designed to allow people who are not technically skilled to successfully manipulate and create web page content and to author and send Grapevine e-mail (see an explanation of this unique feature elsewhere on our site). Mutual Vision will provide orientation and training to your association’s local administrator and property management staff and ongoing help desk assistance is also available.

Give your members a place to discuss the community issues with the Forums section of the website. You decide the Forum categories that fit your community’s needs, and the members drive there own interesting content by adding Topics and Replies. Members can also subscribe to any Forum or Topic and receive emails when new items are posted.