Who does what
The homeowner owns the deal. The HOA owns the street.
Filming districts fall apart when nobody knows who to call. This page is the answer, and the same split is written into every location agreement.
The homeowner
You own the deal, start to finish.
- Coordinate directly with the location scout, producer, and studio
- Set your own rates and negotiate the final fee
- Run day-to-day operations while the crew is on your property
- Request, review, and verify the production's certificate of insurance
- Confirm you are named as an additional insured before anyone arrives
- Invoice the production for your share and collect payment
- Walk the property before and after the shoot and document condition
- Report your own income at tax time
Boulder Walk HOA
We handle the street, not the deal.
- Confirm designated on-street parking areas for crew and equipment
- Publish and enforce quiet hours and permitted filming hours
- Set rules for generators, lighting spill, and street closures
- Notify neighbors within the notice radius ahead of a shoot
- Verify that a listing belongs to an actual Boulder Walk homeowner
- Maintain the district calendar so shoots do not collide
- Invoice the production for the district fee and run the district
The production
Standard location obligations.
- Carry general liability insurance and name the homeowner as additional insured
- Provide a certificate of insurance before the first prep day
- Stay within the agreed footprint, dates, and hours
- Follow neighborhood parking, quiet hours, and generator rules
- Restore the property to its original condition
- Pay the homeowner their share of the agreed fee
- Remit the district fee to the HOA on the same terms
The HOA is not a party to your agreement
Boulder Walk HOA is not a party to the location agreement. The HOA does not negotiate rates, verify insurance, or guarantee that the homeowner gets paid. The agreement is between the homeowner and the production. The HOA's only financial interest is the district fee, which the production pays to the HOA directly out of the agreed fee.
Questions this settles
- A production wants to shoot past quiet hours. Who decides?
- The HOA. Quiet hours are a neighborhood rule and apply regardless of what a homeowner agrees to privately.
- The certificate of insurance looks wrong. Who checks it?
- The homeowner. The HOA never reviews or verifies insurance, and does not keep copies on your behalf.
- The production has not paid. Who chases it?
- The homeowner. Payment terms live in the agreement between the two of you. The HOA has no role in collection.
- Crew trucks are blocking a neighbor's driveway. Who fixes it?
- The HOA sets and enforces the parking plan, but the homeowner is the on-site contact who tells the crew to move.
- Something got damaged. Who handles it?
- The homeowner, through the production's insurance. Document condition before and after every shoot.