A computer system for facilitating maintenance, repair and replacement of products within a community of large-scale homogeneous building inventories (LSHBI) or units over a communications network, the system comprising:
- a database of electronic data at a computer site, the data including:
- home product data that uniquely identifies building products common to and contained within each housing unit in a community of subscribing building units;
- service provider data that identifies service providers for the building products;
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- warranty data that identifies warranties and warranty dates for at least one of the building products and services provided by the service providers;
- a database server for serving up the database of electronic data to a plurality of I/O devices;
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- an engine to analyze the electronic data to determine whether an action to facilitate the maintenance, repair or replacement of at least one building product is to be performed.