Banking for Community Associations.
CommunityPLUS is a division of the full-service community bank, North State Bank.  Headquartered in the capital city of Raleigh, North Carolina both North State Bank and CommunityPLUS focus on serving businesses and organizations who value a mutually beneficial banking relationship.  CommunityPLUS serves community associations across the nation, from Wilmington, North Carolina to Dallas, Texas and beyond. 

For a full introduction to community association banking at CommunityPLUS, contact Gary Woodlief: gwoodlief@northstatebank.com or 877.807.9668.

Products & Services
Lock Box ServiceOur in-house service provides efficient processing of your incoming payments. Homeowner payments are mailed to a post office box address from which we collect and process items each weekday. We provide a payment data file that can be downloaded into your accounting software, thereby automating the posting process. An image archive of processed items is readily available on-line. This service provides a secure and efficient means of collecting and posting incoming payments, increasing cash flows and access to funds.
   
E-statementsReceive electronic monthly bank statements via secure email at the first of each month. You can reconcile your accounts earlier, email statements to your community associations, and store statements electronically.
   
ACHOur cash management module of NetBanker enables you to initiate ACH transactions, such as preauthorized electronic debits for homeowner or other incoming payments. You can also initiate electronic credits for payroll, vendor, tax and other outgoing payments. This reduces paper check handling which provides more secure, efficient and effective payables and receivables processing.
   
Wire TransferThrough our cash management module of NetBanker, you can initiate wire transfers quickly and securely.
   
DepositScanDeposit checks into your account until 7:00 p.m. EST - right from your desk. This service reduces or eliminates trips to the bank.
   
Online BankingThrough NetBanker, our online banking service, you can view your account balances and transactions anytime from virtually anywhere. Initiate electronic funds transfers, stop payments, and transfer funds from anywhere you have Internet access.
 
 
CDARSThrough CDARS (Certificate of Deposit Account Registry Service), we are able to offer you CD investments over $100,000 with up to $50 million in FDIC insurance. This allows you to consolidate investments for your community association accounts into one bank with one 1099 report per owner.
 
 
LoansWe are very competitive and responsive to the lending needs of community associations and property management companies. Deposits from associations are re-distributed throughout the state by way of capital improvement and development loans.

Expertise
You could say that our experience with community associations has been “hands on” and from the ground up.  In 1988, with the guidance and encouragement of the president of a local community association, key members of our management team began offering the service of handling payments by hand and posting them manually.  As technology evolved, this hand-processing led to the electronic scanning of payments and the downloading of information.  With the advent of the Internet, the process has been streamlined even further – adding efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
 
You could also say that we “wrote the book” on community association banking services.  Our services were designed in conjunction with several community associations including HRW; PPM, Inc.; Charleston Management; and Pindell-Wilson.  Through partnering with our community association customers, we created services that expanded their expectations.     
 
We have an experienced banking team that focuses solely on the success of the community associations we serve. Because of our dedication to the community association industry, the CommunityPLUS management team are active members of both CAI-National (Community Associations Institute) as well as the North Carolina Chapter of CAI.
 
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Contact Us
Gary Woodlief
Chief Business Development Officer
gwoodlief@northstatebank.com
877.807.9668