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Keep a Check on These When Builder Hands Over Your Housing Society

Jun 9,2014 / By Nimesh / 22 Comments

When a builder hands over your society to you, as much as you’d feel excited about finally being able to reside in your new home, it is imperative that you look into building-level issues of the apartment.

Some critical areas that you should pay attention during the handover are: Legal, Finance, Building Structure, Electricals, Water, Plumbing & Sanitation, Fire & Emergency Management and Security aspects. With so many visible issues to take care of, associations often miss certain fundamental problems which sooner or later demand attention and end up burning a big hole in your pocket.

It is wise to analyze and understand all apartment issues and get them resolved within the warranty period that your builder offers. Post this, it is nearly impossible to get them to respond, forget making them act on an issue. Before handover, make sure to make a formal document of issues found, fixed and of those that are pending. This way the builder can be held accountable for these issues.

During the ‘handover’, documents that are ‘handed over’ are pertaining to the legal aspects of the building complex, those related to different systems within the complex and documentary proof that all systems and components are working according to design.

Some important handover steps:

1) Besides association, form a group of volunteers to take part in the handover procedure.

2) Make a list of systems and sub systems of the complex.

3) Make a list of components under systems/sub systems of complex.

4) Make a checklist of handover documents.

5) Make a formal document of pending issues that builder will have to sort.

6) It is advisable that you use a Society Management Tool to help you keep a permanent track of issues and their status, for reference even years later. (You can try CommonFloor Groups society management portal)

Make sure you devote some time to come up with a structured handover procedure that includes all aspects of your society complex.

Did you find this post helpful? Have we missed out on any important document required during a society’s handover? Please comment and let us know in either case.

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17 Things About Maharashtra Housing Co-operative Societies Act

Jun 5,2014 / By Nimesh / 4 Comments

To get a detailed understanding of the act, click here bit.ly/1jqsqhp

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CommonFloor’s Presence at UnPluggd: Vikas Malpani talks about The Art of Scaling

May 27,2014 / By Nimesh / No Comment

On the 24th of May, Vikas Malpani, our Co-founder, spoke at UnPluggd which is without a doubt the biggest start-up conference in India. This event brought together more than 600 entrepreneurs and investors of successful start-ups across the country to speak about their experiences, lessons and goals.

Besides our very own Co-Founder, Vikas Malpani, some other prominent speakers who spoke their hearts at this year’s UnPluggd event were Sachin Bansal (Flipkart), Mukesh Bansal (Myntra), Ankit Pruthi (Unicommerce), Kingsley Joseph (TripThirsty) and Vishal Anand (CPO @NewsHunt).

Here goes a synopsis of what the captain of our ship covered:
Vikas Malpani spoke about the ‘Art of Scaling’ which includes the scaling of technology, product, infrastructure, team and revenue. He spoke at length about Commonfloor’s phenomenal scaling journey that had begun in 2007 with seeking revenue from offline pamphlet advertisements to pioneering the concept of ‘Apartment Management Software’ in India to launching property map search feature to receiving funding of over $10M to setting up offices in 18 cities across India to ComScore ranking Commonfloor.com as the No. 1 website with maximum number of unique visitors for Nov, Dec ’13 & Jan 14.

He went on to discuss how important it is to have a strong feet-on-street sales team, mass-media as a marketing platform, running revenue experiments while remaining focused and always keeping yourself and your team motivated.

Looking back with pride at how Commonfloor.com has scaled up and grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years, he finally spoke about what the company has learnt over time- focusing on ‘real’ customer problems, building ‘quality’ right from the start, making product ‘solution-rich’ and not ‘feature-rich’, hearing the customer but deciding by number and the final & vital principle of ‘Build-Measure-Learn’.

Here is the presentation http://www.slideshare.net/CFGroups/unplugged-2014-scaling-up-common-floor

Leave a comment in the section provided below if you have any questions or wish to share your experience attending the event.

Product Updates

CommonFloor Groups Unveils Its Brand New Android App

May 22,2014 / By Nimesh / No Comment

CommonFloor Groups brings out its new user-friendly mobile application in an effort to make its community management tool easily accessible from anywhere on your mobile devices and not just on your laptops or computers.

Why You Need It?

To be able to access your community management portal from anywhere, anytime
So you can keep yourself up to date with all the occurrences within your society
To send a direct message, start a discussion, raise a complaint, write a notice, find out which neighbour lives where, update payments made or to simply update/edit your profile
To make sure all content that goes live on the platform is first moderated by you to avoid any objectionable content (can be done by Management Committee members)

Some Important Highlights

Enriched Visual Experience-Clean interface with a lively appearance
Optimized Mobile Experience-Easy, fast navigation and user-friendly application
Push Notifications-Get notified on your community’s latest updates

App Features
On downloading the app and logging in, you will see

News-feed: Get a snapshot overall view of community ongoing activities.

Discussion: Start a discussion/reply to a currently discussed topic.

Complaints: Raise a complaint on a community related issue bothering you.

Notices: Create a notice for an event or to make an announcement.

Neighbours: Find out exactly where each neighbour lives.

Messages: Send a direct message to a neighbour to interact and know your neighbours better.

My House: Find out pending dues against your house.

Settings: Use this feature to edit your profile, change your password or to contact our support team.

Moderate: If you are a management committee member, you can moderate content uploaded on the platform.

Download Now for Android version 4.0.3 and up!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.groups.commonfloor

PS: We are soon bringing in the iOS and Windows versions too!

Product Updates

Money Manager Module Update: Introducing Defaulters List

May 12,2014 / By Nimesh / No Comment

No one wishes to have to deal with “Maintenance defaulters” but it’s no news that often treasurers are left with no other choice. When it comes to collating a defaulters’ list, it’s a painful job which requires plenty of time and subsequent follow-ups.

Now, are you a treasurer who finds himself in such situations and wishes there could be one space containing a list of all defaulters with their respective house numbers? There’s exciting news for you! We have just introduced the Defaulters List feature to our Money Manager Module.

Snapshot: Defaulters List

How Is It Helpful?
This feature will help Treasurers in easily keeping track of all those who have not paid their Maintenance Dues on time or beyond the due date.

You have the option to filter the final report by Block, House, Invoice Title and the number of Days Elapsed.
You can also take a printout of the defaulter list and put it up on notice boards in the community (club house, lifts or halls) as a reminder to residents.

Where Will You Find It?

Log on to www.groups.commonfloor.com using your login credentials.
On the dashboard page, click on your community name.
On your community homepage, under the Manage tab on the right section of the page, click on the Money icon.
On the Money Manager page, under Reports tab click on the Defaulters List button.

Once you’re on the Defaulters List view, you can choose a date range and filter out a list of defaulters based on block number, house number, invoice title and days elapsed.

Hope you will find this new feature addition useful. Write to us at support@commonfloor.com in case you have any query.

Author Archives: Nimesh

Keep a Check on These When Builder Hands Over Your Housing Society

17 Things About Maharashtra Housing Co-operative Societies Act

CommonFloor’s Presence at UnPluggd: Vikas Malpani talks about The Art of Scaling

CommonFloor Groups Unveils Its Brand New Android App

Money Manager Module Update: Introducing Defaulters List