Most boards can't ban door-to-door sales. Every board can do this.
Solicitation complaints land on the board, and the board is usually the one party with no authority to do anything about them. NoKnock gives you something concrete to hand residents instead: a clear “Do Not Knock” decal for their own front door, paid for by the association and claimed by whoever wants one.
No rule change. No enforcement role. Nothing for the board to administer.
Why this keeps coming back to you
A community-wide ban usually isn’t yours to make
If your streets are publicly maintained, door-to-door canvassing is generally protected speech, and a solicitor holding a city permit isn’t stopped by a sign at your entrance. Boards often discover this only after promising residents something they can’t deliver.
A rule you can’t enforce makes it worse
Adopting a restriction the association has no authority behind turns one complaint into two — the knock, and then the unanswered email asking why nothing happened about it.
What does hold up is per-door, not per-community
A clear notice on an individual front door is the tool that actually works, and it belongs to the resident rather than the association. Which is exactly why boards have had no way to deliver it — until you can simply cover it for them.
How it works
Your association buys a block of decals
$12.98 each — the same price any homeowner pays. You get a short community code to share with residents. Most boards start with 50.
You send one email
One newsletter item or e-blast with the code — and we write it for you. That’s the entire ask on the board’s time: there’s nothing to store, stuff into envelopes, or hand out at a meeting.
Residents claim their own
A resident registers their home free, enters your code, and their weatherproof decal ships to their door at $0.00. Each one is printed for that specific address.
Watch a resident claim theirs
From: Maple Grove HOA Board
A free “Do Not Knock” decal for your front door
Neighbors — the association is covering weatherproof “Do Not Knock” decals for any household that wants one. Claim yours below; it ships to your door at no cost.
One tap — the link carries the community's code for you.
1/7The board sends one email — we write it for them. The link inside carries the community's code. That's the entire ask on the board's time.
What it costs
$12.98 per door
The same price any homeowner pays — there's no association markup, and no subscription. A starter block of 50 decals is $649, which for most boards sits inside what can be approved without waiting for the next budget cycle.
Unclaimed decals are refunded at twelve months. You end up paying only for the doors your residents actually covered.
Program terms — one page, the same for every association, nothing to negotiate. Or see exactly what you'd send residents.
Why boards say yes
- No CC&R amendment, no rule change, and no vote on new restrictions.
- No enforcement role for the board — nothing here is a rule you have to police.
- Nothing to administer: no portal, no logins, no roster to keep up to date.
- Opt-in per household. No resident is enrolled in anything by the board.
- A benefit residents can actually see on their own front door — unusual for association spend.
What you'll see, and what you won't
You'll see numbers: how many of your decals have been claimed, and roughly how many homes in your community are on the registry. Enough to report progress at a meeting.
You won't see residents: not their names, not their addresses, not which households signed up, and not what any of them chose to block. We won't provide that list if the board asks for it.
That's deliberate. Your association has a governing relationship with these residents, and a roster of who did or didn't sign up isn't the board's business. Residents participate more freely when that line is clear, which is the whole point of buying the block in the first place.
What a decal actually does
Most people going door to door read a clear “Do Not Knock” and move on. That part works the day it goes up, on any door, whether or not anyone ever scans it — it's the same reason a good no-soliciting sign helps, just harder to ignore and printed on outdoor vinyl rather than a curling sticker.
Each decal also carries a QR code tied to that address on our do-not-solicit registry. A canvasser using NoKnock can check an address before knocking, and if someone knocks anyway the resident can log it with a timestamp instead of relying on memory.
What it isn't: a law, an enforcement tool, or a guarantee. Registering a home doesn't make solicitation illegal where it wasn't already, and nobody is required to check the registry. It gives your residents a clear notice and a record — which is more than they have now, and more than the association can give them any other way.
Board questions
Do we need to change our CC&Rs or pass a new rule?
No. Nothing about this creates an obligation for the association or a restriction on anyone. You are covering the cost of something individual residents choose to put on their own doors — closer to sponsoring a shredding day than to adopting a rule.
Does the board have to enforce anything?
No, and it can’t. NoKnock is a notice on a door plus a registry, not an enforcement mechanism. Whether ignoring a posted no-soliciting notice carries any penalty depends entirely on your city’s ordinance, exactly as it does today.
What if a resident already registered, or already bought a decal?
They keep what they have — a decal is printed for one specific address, so a second one for the same door isn’t much use. Homes in your community that registered before you started still count toward your community’s numbers. The block you buy is there for the doors that don’t have one yet.
What happens to decals nobody claims?
We refund them. Twelve months after your community starts, we count what your residents actually claimed and refund the rest at the price you paid per decal — $12.98 today — within 30 days. You are buying a campaign for your residents, not a box of inventory, and you shouldn’t pay for doors that never took one.
Do renters get one too?
Yes. The person living at the address registers it, and the decal goes on that door. Nothing about it depends on who holds the deed.
We manage several communities. Can we do this across all of them?
Get in touch — we’d rather set that up as one conversation than repeat the same one per association.
Cover your community
We're setting up our first community associations by hand, so you'll be talking to a person rather than filling in a portal. Tell us roughly how many homes you have and we'll take it from there.
Talk to us about your communityOr email hello@noknock.co
Just a resident? Register your own home free — you don't need your association to do anything first.