If you’ve recently gotten a postcard saying you are invited to join nextdoor.com along with the name of a neighbor, those invitations are NOT coming from Brookhaven North HOA.
The HOA does not use any online service to collect dues at this time or solicit vendors.
According to other online sites, nextdoor.com is attempting to create neighborhood based social media, but their online reviews are very poor. We do not endorse the site.
The invitations are likely coming from neighbors who have joined the service, as part of registering a neighborhood on the site includes inviting others in order to reach a certain number of registered users in said neighborhood. Several neighborhoods around our own are highly active on the site and the City of Edmond also utilizes the site as another communication medium (ala Twitter and Facebook).
I’ve never seen anything from them that could be confused with a solicitation or due collection from the HOA, but that’s just been my own experience.
Yes. Here’s an excerpt of their privacy policy.
” Existing Nextdoor members may invite you to join the service via postal mail, email, SMS/text message or other ways. Nextdoor may help members extend these invitations (which may include reminders) by requesting access to the member’s email or other contacts or asking the inviting member to provide the invited person’s email or postal street address.”