Guide to Income Tax for Apartment Associations

Income Tax for Housing Societies For most apartment associations, member contributions form the major chunk of their income. These contributions by members are credited to different heads by the housing association. These include Maintenance charges, Property Tax, Sinking Fund, Municipal taxes, etc. This income that the society generates is used to meet the day-to-day expenses […]

Before you buy: A checklist for Apartment Buyers

Quick Download: If you are looking for a checklist to download, click here. Buying an apartment is one of the most exciting, yet at the same time, most challenging tasks in life. It is exciting because it is one of the biggest financial and emotional commitments one can make. At the same time, buying a […]

Formalize action item tracking in your Apartment Complex

At ApnaComplex, today we have released a simple but very useful new feature to help secretaries of Apartment Associations in form of “Action Item Tracker”. In short, “Action Item Tracker” just does what it means – track action items. With this feature, ApnaComplex enables managing committees of apartment associations to formally track and monitor progress […]

Yes, Apartment Owners’ Associations CAN be run professionally

Reference to the article posted on Citizen Matters – Can Apartment Owners’ Associations be run professionally? , the author lists various hurdles in running Apartment Associations professionally and offers some suggestions that can help associations. True, there are many hurdles to run association in a professional way. But leveraging technology would surely be a way […]

We all love to complain, don’t we? – We upgraded Complaint Box for you!

We have released an upgraded version of the “Complaint Box” module of ApnaComplex along with host of other enhancements. Starting today our customers can experience the benfit of the new features.  The key features of of this upgraded Complaint box are: Category-wise Administration: 1. Administrators can now configure “complaint box administrators” for each category type […]

ApnaComplex ties up with Magic e-mart

Today, we announced our tie-up with Magic e-mart , a unit of Magic Online Business, to provide our Bangalore customers special discounts when buying groceries and other retail goods online.  As a part of the tie up ApnaComplex customers will be provided discounts on top of all the listed prices by Magic e-mart.  Please visit […]

Document repository for Apartment Associations

We released new feature of “Document Repository” in ApnaComplex today. Starting today, Administrators and members of a complex can upload documents of relevance in ApnaComplex secure repository.  This shall enable the community members to easily locate association documents – such as bye laws, meeting minutes, welcome kits, photos, vendor quotations, contract copies, building plans, regulatory certificates […]

Service Tax on Residential Complexes: Past, Present, Future

Budget 2010 revived what many thought was a closed chapter for millions of home buyers in India. Ever since it was introduced, there had been uncertainty about the government’s service tax on residential constructions and the manner in which it had to be collected. Following a circular in 2009, the issued seemed to have been […]

Vendor Management for Apartment Associations

We released new feature of “Vendor Management” in ApnaComplex today. Starting today, Administrators can maintain the list of all vendors that association and apartment residents use in a central place. Details like vendor name, services offered, address, contacts and other details of vendors can be collected and made available for all the residents. This makes […]