Hi Friends,
We have resumed full SMS services to all our CF members. Exempting from the previous announcement.
So feel free to send SMS to all your CF members for important announcements.
Cheers!!
Vikas
Archive for the ‘Why CF’ Category
CommonFloor ‘Spirit of Freedom’ Photography Contest
Aug 14th, 11
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Hi Friends,
We are back with an exciting contest combining your love for the lens and love for your Nation 
.
This Independence day go be part of the celebrations in your community and capture the same through your lens and win exciting prizes.
CommonFloor ‘Spirit of Freedom’ photography contest from August 15 to August 25.
How to Participate?
1. Capture the Celebrations of Independence in your community (Apartment, society, villas, colony ..)
2. Upload the photos to CommonFloor Facebook Contest Page
3. Share with your neighbors and friends to VOTE
Categories:
1. Most Popular Community (Society)
2. Most Popular Photo
Prizes:
1. Canvas print of Photo Collage
2. Engraved prints of photos on wooden plaques
3. T-Shirts
Photos with maximum VOTES win. No limit of number of photos per community.
So time to gear up and get set go to capture the celebrations in your community. Now you have another reason to celebrate
Show your community’s ‘Spirit of Freedom’.
Cheers!!
Vikas
Property Buying in Internet Era- Best Practices & Common Mistakes: Property Buyer’s Summit ‘11
Jun 26th, 11
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My talk on Property Buying in Internet Era at Property Buyer’s Summit- Bangalore, 25 June.
The presentation:
Property buying in internet age
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Cheers!!
Vikas
Commonfloor.com: India’s most privacy friendly real estate destination.
May 25th, 11
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Commonfloor : India’s Largest Apartment Portal, is also India’s most privacy friendly real estate portal.
To ensure a complete peace of mind and protection from SPAM Commonfloor takes the following measures:
- Database is not sold to any third parties
- Proxy Email id to safeguard your private email ids and avoid spam emailer’s
- Email id and mobile number not shown directly on website and hence also not on Google (Search Engines).
- Ensures that your private information is not accessible to people on web in long term.
- Genuine owners are verified in their owner groups (portal at commonfloor)
- Owners are notified about the interested seeker and can choose to respond to any of them as per their liking.
- Seeker’s email ids are only shared with owners and professionals who can help and not available to everyone on the internet
- Comprehensive Industry standard Data Security & Privacy policy.
If you have any issues or concern feel free to write to us at support @ commonfloor.com.
Go ahead and post your property with a complete peace of mind for best offerings.
Yours Truly,
Commonfloor Team
Proxy Email : Next level of Privacy Protection for Real Estate listings
May 20th, 11
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Maintaining our tradition of keeping users interest first and their privacy as our topmost priority. We are now the first to have a Proxy email- A temporary system generated email id for the purpose of contacting you for your listing.
Q. What is a Proxy-Email?
A. Proxy-Email is a proxy email address of the user who has posted his/her listing on CommonFloor. This email id is given to agents for contacting the listing owners. It is unique for each agent – listing_owner pair.
Q. How different is it than a normal email account?
A. It is as similar to a normal personal email account as it can get. You can send emails, attach files or forward newsletters to this email address.
Q. Why not provide user’s personal email id.?
A. By providing this proxy address, we are safeguarding the privacy concerns of the user who has posted the listing and at the same time not harming anyone’s business intent. This email address is as good as the user’s personal email account. Therefore the user is free to exchange communication, by staying behind this proxy-mask untill he feels comfortable and confident of the business deal that he/she is going through.
Q. What if the broker tries to manipulate the proxy email addresses to reach out to more users?
A. It is practically impossible to manipulate the proxy-email addresses. We have taken utmost care to prevent such activity. The proxy-emal address provided is actually a combination of 4 strings generated though our private algorithm which prevents someone from guessing it.
Q. Can someone extract personal information out of the proxy email address?
A. No, untill there is a communication going on and the user choses to give such information to the agent, no such thing is possible.
Q. What if a broker abuses the email provided by sending spams?
A. If the user finds mail content irrelevant, he/she may choose to block further communication from that broker by clicking on the report-spam link included at the beginning of all the emails sent. The user may totally block mails from any agent by deleting his/her listing from CommonFloor, in the eventuality of which no further mails are sent to them from agents.
Q. What about the privacy of mail content. Does/Can CommonFloor eavesdrop on the mail communications going on?
A. As the proxy email addresses are on the CommonFloor domain, Yes, it is possible for us to monitor the content of mail. This is required just incase someone tries to abuse the service and use it for malicious intent. Rest assured, normally the mails are not monitored and both the parties are given sufficient private space.
Q. Known Issues, if any?
A. We have tried our best to provide a tool that should suffice normal exchange of communication between both parties. The only known issue is that these proxy email addresses cannot and should not be included in BCC list of your outgoing mails, as that may not guarantee successfull delivery of your message. We are working on the fix and shall soon be able to support BCC mails.
Ensuring peace of mind and clutter free Inbox for your property needs.
Cheers!!
CommonFloor Team
Over 94% Property Rental/Sale Owners recommend commonfloor
Apr 7th, 11
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CommonFloor is designed keeping in mind the need of a Home Seeker and Owner. CF is a destination for all things around “HOME”.
To reaffirm the same, here are some statistics from feedback we have received from the owners who have posted their property on CommonFloor:
The above survey was done for owners who used CommonFloor to Rent/Sell their property in 8 Cities of India.
They found CommonFloor easy, very responsive and most satisfying way to list their property.
20% of the owners had been recommended by their friends to post their listing at CommonFloor, over 94% of them would recommend other owners to list their property at CF.
Here is what few of the Owner’s had to say about their experience with CF:
“I am very happy that the response which i am getting for my flat is excellent. People those are really interested were sending their details . Excellent service provided by Common floor.” P.SRINIVASAN, Owner at Shanti Park Apartments, Bangalore
“Brilliant portal. Efficiently managed. Non intrusive.” Sudhir Borgonha, Owner at Elita Promenade, Bangalore
“Commonfloor was a real boon.. It was very helpful in introducing the right kind of people to our apartment.. We got good tenants.. I am very happy with Commonfloor.. Thanks a lot.” Shobhana, Owner at My Home Jewel, Hyderabad
“Responses are very good and fast.” Amarnath, Owner at Aparna Sarovar, Hyderabad
Thousands of owners are benefiting from CommonFloor services. Have you tried Commonfloor for your property listing yet???
Cheers!!
Vikas
Quick Testimonials: Across India
Mar 2nd, 11
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Maintenance Dues Accounting Testimonial:
I would like to express my sincere thanks to you and your team for all the good work that you did to make the portal highly useful to a society like ours. I was very very happy with the Maintenance Dues module, which came just in time for us to kick off maintenance collection process. It has helped tremendously to see the status of the maintenance and other dues, apartment-wise. Going forward this will be highly beneficial to manage the affairs of the society.
I recall that the CF portal has made tremendous improvements from the time we decided to go with it. I am really happy that I could hand over a good database to the society to manage its affairs. Today everyone over here seem to be appreciative of it. As the administrator for a year, I can vouch for its usefulness for us.
I once again thank you for all this.
Mr. M.Radhakrishnan, Akme Ballet, Bangalore
Testimonials:
1. Dear CommonFloor Team
I am working as a Technology Architect and i would like to comment on the Portal you guys have built
1) Perfect example of Usability (with social sense in mind)
2) User interface is awesome
3) Navigational flow and Site maintenance is Great
4) The Real paint point of Apartment Maintenance : You guys eased it to the core,Really thank you guys
Thanks once again for this wonderful portal for the community and looking forward for the next new features from your side
Ravikumar Ramadoss, Aditya Vintage, Bangalore
2. I have found this site as most useful one.It has been very intelligently designed to cater different groups at one point.
Chandra Dhar, Rajat Vihar : Delhi-NCR
3. Good
Phanikumar.kr@karvy.com, Real Estate Agent
4.It is a good site but will take time to full use.
D.Mallikarjuna Rao, Kamlesh Enclave :Chennai
5. This site looks pretty cool & is a good concept. keep it up.
Amit Nimbhorkar, Chaitanya Vihar 
une
6. Nice
akhan8856@…..com, Property Owner for listing
7. This website is genuine (bug free from agents/brokers) and the listings are posted by owners as expected. It would be great if all the owners use this site instead of going to agents or brokers.
naganjaneyulu.gv@…..com: corporate Professional,Property Seeker
8. It is my pleasure to get membership of this group.
Amratlal, Orchid Ozone : Mumbai
9. Awesome!!!
Hari Kolli, Vaishnavi Enclave :Hyderabad
10. This is very nice
Shreyas, Lawrence Park:Mumbai
11. The more I use Common Floor portal, the more I am convinced that CF is serving a very useful purpose in effective communication among the gated communities.
Wg Cdr Bellie Jayaprakash (JP), Jal Vayu Vihar,Bangalore
12. Nice site, good job. Thanks
Rajesh P Venkat, Prince Residenzia :Chennai
13. It is good to have blog like this
Nagamoney, Ragamalika Phase I ,Chennai
14. It is a good idea to initiate this kind of web site to help people who are really interested by keeping the spam away.
Ravikiran, ravikiran.bot..@…..com : Oracle Corporate property board
15. Hi everybody.I am blessed being a member of ur community.Have me posted the recent updates.Thank you.
Sharmila Bandyopadhyay, Greenwood Sonata , Kolkata
16.Very informative. Thanks.
K Subramania Iyer, Mahaveer Lakes:Bangalore
17. Dear Common Floor, Its really fantastic database for the Residential communities. Its great please keep continue updation in the software. thanks Shantanu
Shantanu Adhikary, Arihant Ambience: Delhi-NCR
18.Good to have portal connecting the PSN community.
Anant, Prestige Shantiniketan: Bangalore
19. Good initiative but am not sure as to how many folks are aware of this
Sunil Sud, Unitech Harmony ,Delhi-NCR
20. Good site
santosh.mah..@….com , Tesco Corporate Property Board
CF Shortlisted among 25 companies for Young Entrepreneur Award by Business World
Feb 23rd, 11
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The Businessworld Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2011 contest has entered the final leg of the selection process. An eminent panel of 11 venture capitalists helped screen and shortlist 25 companies.
This year the awards have been split into two categories:
Category A: Companies that are at least 2 years old and less than 5 years old
Category B: Companies that are less than 2 years old
CommonFloor has been nominated in Catergory A.
We thank all our users, patrons, friends and communities who have made us what we are.
Looking forward to continued support and patronage.
Cheers!
Vikas
Quick Testimonials: Bangalore, Mumbai & Hyderabad
Nov 18th, 10
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My Search for an Absolutely Secure and Usable portal for my community ended at Commonfloor.
“We widely use commonfloor for SMS, Notice Board, Email Discussions, Library File uploads/Photo Uploads, Members Database for all our requirements.
Till today I have been receiving excellent support.
I have already recommend commonfloor to my close friends and relatives.”
Committee Member, Mahaveer Dazzle, Bangalore.
“We use SMS, Notice Board, Email Discussions, Library File uploads/Photo Uploads, Issue Tracker, Members Database, Subgroups, Vendor/Services Connect, Resources/ Articles on Regular basis and are very happy with the services.
Support has been excellent and I have started strongly recommending CF to friends and neighboring communities.
I wish to have a tie-up with CF ”
Mr. Varma Penmetsha,NCL LB Godavari, Hyderabad.
“Common Floor has provided us a very easy and user friendly way to manage the activities of our Residents Welfare Association. In a span of less than 6 months more than 150 residents have become members of our Common Floor and are using it actively to share problems and solutions. The email discussions and notices are very useful features. One other facility which is very useful is the SMS. The simplicity makes it possible even for those not very tech savvy to use Common Floor to good effect.
The support staff has been very courteous and very responsive.”
Mr. Arun Gopinath, Committee member- MS Ramiah City South, Bangalore.
“CommonFloor is good but we have not been using it much since we are new. We use SMS, Notice Board, Members Database, Vendor/Services Connect, Resources/ Articles regularly.
My advice to all Communities : Use it to maximum – Usage to out pace innovation/introduciton of new features !
As for the suport from CF, i would give 10/10 – it has been excellent!!”
Mr. Atul Vaidya, Moderator, Bima Nagar CHS, Mumbai.
“I have spoken to Mr.Vikas Malpani ,he was very resourceful and he explained about new innovative services to be launched in the near future.
After speaking to the support staff, I could make out the depth and efforts put into the making of this portal and I am surprised by their vision..It is so designed ,that it’s very user friendly.
In the next 5 years,the order of the day will be “commonfloor” for all the gated communities in India and hopefully around the globe.. ”
Mr. Sudheer Sunkari, Moderator, Silicon Ridge , Hyderabad.
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New: Vendor Connect – Vendor Management and Vendor Marketplace
Oct 20th, 10
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My beloved users/moderators/Committee Members and well wishers,
I am glad to announce the launch of our latest upgraded feature “Vendor Connect”- India’s Largest Business to Community-B2Com, Marketplace of Vendors for services to Apartment Communities.
Enhancing our earlier feature “Vendor/Services” we have launched a full fledged Vendor Management along with a Marketplace(for Annual Maintenance Contracts and One time service needs).This feature in is intended to ease the pain of Handling vendor information and getting new vendors.
The objectives of the feature are:
1. To help you Manage your Vendors .
- Who are currently Serving you, have served you in past or sent you a proposal
- Manage the AMC(Annual Maintenance Contracts) due dates and Contracts.
- List of communities where the vendor is serving
- The Escalation Matrix(Service Executives at different levels)
- Maintain Notes by outgoing committee about a vendor
2. To provide a Comprehensive Vendor list and Request for Quote
- See the list of all vendors in your city
- Request for quotation for services for your community
- Know how many communities the vendor is serving
Login to your Commonfloor now to use this feature!!!
I thank all our communities from Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Delhi-NCR who have contributed their thoughts and requirements in making this feature very useful for everyone.
Do take it for a spin and let me know your thoughts, comments, testimonials and feedback.
Looking forward to an easier Vendor Management in your Community.
Cheers!!
Vikas
