Who We Are

AtHomeNet is founded by husband-and-wife team Jeff and Susan Sanders to provide progressive technology at affordable prices. Known for their knowledgeable support staff, excellent customer service, and monthly product updates, the AtHomeNet team’s reputation precedes them as they continue to pioneer affordable community website technology.

AssociationVoice is founded, providing a first-rate Web presence to over 10,000 community associations and management companies with advanced features that enable them to streamline business operations and increase resident interaction and communication. AssociationVoice Web sites and software solutions are designed by industry experts utilizing world-class Internet-based technologies and offer intuitive, user-friendly interfaces.

Caliber is founded. Caliber is an accounting system built by software professionals who know how to deliver and support feature-rich, scalable, and architecturally-sound software solutions into the public domain.

CapSure, Inc. is founded in Norcross, GA to provide visitor management software and access control integration solutions to corporate facilities, distribution facilities, gated communities, and condominiums. It becomes the preeminent security software for gated communities on the East Coast.

DwellingLive is founded, becoming the preeminent security software for gated communities on the West Coast. DwellingLive is the premier solution for communities of any type and size who are concerned about controlling who comes and goes in their community. It provides Community Managers and HOAs with a flexible, web-based interface through which they can configure and monitor the system.

AtHomeNet reaches over 1 million homes.

K1, a private equity company, identifies the need for a single software platform for community management. Community Investors, Inc is founded as a portfolio company of K1 and starts acquiring the best platforms in the market.

K1 buys Association Voice and AtHomeNet, the two dominant players in the portal world.

Evercondo is founded as a platform that allows condominium and high-rise based property managers, committee members and owners to access management tasks via a single web platform and smartphone app.

K1 acquires CapSure, Inc., the preeminent security software for gated communities on the East Coast.

K1 acquires DwellingLive, the preeminent security software for gated communities on the West Coast.

K1 sells the business to CIP Capital, another private equity company.

Community Investors Inc. rebrands to FRONTSTEPS, integrating Community Operations and security businesses into one single platform, giving customers the ability to leverage its diverse range of products and services from a single destination. The company focuses on developing mobile first products to drive better resident engagement within the platform, including a newly integrated payments solution and visitor management application. The new platform makes it easier for residents to manage guest authorization, pay HOA dues and violations, and reserve community amenities.

FRONTSTEPS acquires Evercondo, allowing for the expedition of the implementation of their security products and services to the condo, high-rise market.

FRONTSTEPS launches its first generation of FRONTSTEPS payments, a proprietary payment solution for community management.

FRONTSTEPS acquires Caliber, the crown jewel of the back-office software for community management, and the first to have an open API. "The highly strategic investment in Caliber greatly enhances the FRONTSTEPS platform by adding accounting capabilities and creating a single platform for the association community management industry.

FRONTSTEPS launches its second generation of FRONTSTEPS payments, a more advanced and integrated payment solution.

FRONTSTEPS launches co-branded apps, offering property management companies and homeowner associations a feature-rich homeowner mobile app that reflects their own branding without the expense of developing their own technology. The co-branded mobile apps include the same industry-leading functionality that is available in the FRONTSTEPS homeowner mobile app.

Matt DeWolf, a product visionary with more than two decades of software-as-a-service experience is appointed CEO, signaling a new era of growth for the company.

FRONTSTEPS offers AP Automation, offering a simplified and seamless board member invoice approval experience and optimizing the processing and payment of vendor invoices for community management companies with invoice-to-pay automation. This partnership allows management companies to offset the costs of FRONTSTEPS software and turn a cost center into a profit center.

FRONTSTEPS launches its Suite Manager, bringing all of the FRONTSTEPS’ industry-leading technologies in a single, elegant and complete mobile-first platform.

FRONTSTEPS earns a spot on Built In’s Best Places to Work list for the fifth consecutive year.