Can Clay Help with Nationwide HOA Data Pull and Enrichment?

If you manage to solve this for me, I’ll get the highest package 🙂 I need the pull the HOA (Homeowners Association) data nationwide. Need the names and contact information from Board of Directors. It would also be great to enrich the database with HOA website and some other details. Is something like that doable within Clay? I can share the sample database link.

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Jovan B.
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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ESGvGt2T5qyLlFu_9BY5wuWk9Im7r3L9aFzrpvSkiYo/edit?usp=sharing
Greg H.
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Jovan B. I'd start here. Just clicking into each of the state records and using "Home Owners Association" as the search term, you can get the non-profit business records for HOAs. Pulling up the search results for all 50 states might be a pain, but you can then use Claygent once you get those sites to pull the data you want. That'll be an expensive search given how many HOA's there are, but that would be my suggested starting point.
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Clay T.
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Hey Jovan, thanks for reaching out! Awesome insights, Greg!!That would probably be the easiest way to start things out. You can use a scraping tool to get details within each state as Greg mentioned but from there it should be easier to further enrich based on any available data you were able to pull.Like getting the domain/website or any names to then find their emails.
Clay T.
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Since that site looks like the main database for HOA, it's probably best to extract the data from there first.
Frederik H.
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Jovan B. I know the pain. Recently had to solve something similar for a client. I built a custom coding step to scrape the data into a csv file from a website so I have a starting point. Therefore in this case I would not have to pull up the search results for each 50 states but this would also be happening automatically. Was pretty neat 👍🏻 Then you can import the csv into clay and start from there. Use claygent or google search enrichment to start getting additional data. Once you have this set up you can start using clays magic 🙏🏻
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Jovan B.
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Hi Greg H., thanks for the insights! Finding the association name, address and the names of directors seems easy, but how would I do the trickiest part… finding their personal email information and HOA website? You think Claygent would be capable of achieving this? When you say expensive, approximately how many credits would that cost per record?
Greg H.
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Jovan B. If you've got the name of the HOA and the city/state that it's in from the state records site, then you can actually use Clay's Google search integration to find the HOA's website. The query would just be like {{Name of HOA}} {{city}} {{state}} and take the first organic result. You could do a similar search to find the LinkedIn profiles of the Directors by just adding site:linkedin.com/in {{Director Name}} to the query and taking the first organic result. Clay has waterfall enrichment workflows to find email addresses from there. You could also feed those values into Claygent and just ask it to find the HOA site and LinkedIn profiles. The Google searches cost 1 credit ea. Claygent actually requires an OpenAI API Key, and will likely cost ~$0.0025 per run if you're using gpt 3.5 turbo. The email enrichments can get costly if you're having to run 3-4 enrichment integrations to find someone's email address. You'll have to play around with those yourself.
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Greg H.
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Google says there's like 370k HOAs in the US though... getting that data using any kind of API/enrichment instead of a scraper you set up yourself is like Enterprise tier pricing 😬
Jovan B.
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Greg H. once again, thanks a lot! I already bought the 25,000 credits and used almost all of them for a different campaign. Amazed with what the product can do! I’ll try to extract all of the data with webscraper.io and then use claygent to perform the Google search. Hopefully I won’t be bugging you anymore. 🙂
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Greg H.
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Jovan B. not bugging me at all :) this stuff is fun.