Apartment residents connecting online at CommonFloor

November 17th 2009, Liffy Thomas, CHENNAI: For over a couple of months, the Shankars only knew a few neighbours in their new, 194-odd apartment complex on Rajiv Gandhi Salai. Blame it on today’s fast-paced world in which one finds little time to mingle. But, many often hope that an understanding neighbour would give a helping hand during a contingency...

Associations with not-so-tech-savvy members are taking help to design the online platform. Bangalore-based start-up www.CommonFloor.com claims to have its presence in 22 cities.

In Chennai, the company has designed the online apartment management tool for around 1,500 communities, where services like maintenance fee tracker, issue tracker, SMS reminders for active residents and owners’ association members come installed. Online communities help address issues effectively, particularly when members have no time to attend association meetings......

Ceebros Mayfair Owners and Residents, Velachery, and YS Enclave Owners and Residents, Virugambakkam, are among those using technology to stay connected.

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IRL - Indian Regional League for Basketball and Volleyball

Indiakhelo, in association with CommonFloor, announces Bengaluru’s first ever Indian Regional League for Basketball and Volleyball for teams from schools, colleges and apartment complexes. The tournament will host more than 150 teams across 35 colleges, 35 schools and 20 apartment complexes. Some of the apartments who have confirmed their participation are IDEB Springfields, Ferns Rainbow Drive, Sobha Jasmine, Purva Fountainsquare, Suncity Corporate Leisure, L&T Southcity Apartments, etc. The teams will play their matches on Dec 5th and Dec 12th at Jayanagar stadium to announce the final winners across various categories.

Useful Links:
Register a team
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Green Diwali at CommonFloor

At CommonFloor, we believe it is our resposibility to contribute to the environment and society. We have been promoting green-living in Home, College/Schools and Offices.

This year, we are asking to celebrate eco-sensitive, green Diwali.

How to celebrate eco-sensitive diwali?

• Share food, sweets and clothes with the lesser privileged.
• Donate for relief operations in Karnataka.
• Instead of individual celebration prefer community celebration in a open ground.
• Instead of electric illumination for long hours go for traditional lightening of earthen lamps or diyas.
• Reduce the amount of things we use.
• Reuse the things we have in different forms until we have absolutely no use for them
• Recycle items that are no longer functional.
• Rethink the choices we make when deciding to buy something
• Refuse things that we do not need at all.

You can contribute your own suggestions about green-living or Green-Diwali at http://www.commonfloor.com/green-living


How did you celebrate your diwali this year?
Send your stories and supporting pictures of Green-Diwali-2009 by 27-October on green-diwali[@]pledgeforgreen.com and win upto 5 t-shirts for your community from Scopial!

If you live in apartment communities in Bangalore, Delhi-NCR; you can also upload your pictures to your apartment gallery on CommonFloor

Wishing you and your family a very happy and prosperous Diwali!

Apartment Owners Association Powers and Duties

Apartment Owners Association or RWA or Management Committee of any society plays a vital role to ensure hassle free and happy community living. Owners association is the group of all owners of the apartment.

Owners Association maintains facilities or amenities available in apartment community. Apartment Association works for the welfare of residents in their apartment, conduct events or awareness program and protects the right of apartment owners and residents. Apartment owners association may or may not be registered but registered association can sue or defend any legal action and enjoy legal benefits on behalf of the owners.

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Meet your Neighbors online at your CommonFloor

It's just not about meeting your neighbors online. It's actually Your Apartment Online. CommonFloor claims to simplify your apartment living experience by providing you easy to use (and free of cost) Apartment Management & Communication Tools. See the latest coverage by Livemint about CF here.

CommonFloor e-enabled 15000 Apartment Communities across 22 cities in India

CF announces launch of its services in 14 new Cities in India. Following are the cities:

Bangalore Apartments
Delhi Apartments
Mumbai Apartments
Chennai Apartments
Hyderabad Apartments
Pune Apartments
Kolkata Apartments
Ahmedabad Apartments
Goa Apartments
Kochi Apartments
Bhopal Apartments
Chandigarh Apartments
Mysore Apartments
Mangalore Apartments
Coimbatore Apartments
Dehradun Apartments
Indore Apartments
Jaipur Apartments
Lucknow Apartments
Ludhiana Apartments
Surat Apartments
Nagpur Apartments

Sobha Dahlia Fiesta 2009

Sobha Dahlia, a luxury apartment community, is celebrating a Grand Fiesta Event and inviting residents from near by apartments in Sarjapur Road to become part of the celebrations.



Here is the link for Sobha Dahlia Fiesta Invitation.