THE PLINTH BLOG
How to run clubhouse and amenity bookings in a housing society: booking rules, deposits and charges, cancellation, fair allocation and dispute handling.
A preventive maintenance schedule for housing society assets: lifts, pumps, DG sets, fire systems and STP, with AMC tracking and statutory inspections.
How UPI Autopay mandates work for recurring society maintenance: setting limits, pre-debit notifications, variable amounts, failures, and cancellation.
Run a shared photo gallery for society events without filling every phone: albums, moderation, consent for photos of children, and storage that lasts.
Why one society-wide WhatsApp group fails, and how topic-based interest groups with membership rules and moderation keep discussion useful.
Running a buy-sell board and vendor recommendations inside a housing society: listing rules, what to prohibit, liability limits and moderation that works.
What an office must get right when collecting visitor names, numbers and photos at the gate: notice, purpose limits, retention and internal access.
How an office gate should work: employee pre-approval, walk-ins with no named host, host response timeouts, parcel custody and visitor data retention.
Where Envoy is stronger, where Plinth is stronger, and which kind of office each one actually suits. Written with the gaps stated rather than hidden.
What a paper visitor book fails at, which failures actually matter, and when a register or spreadsheet is still right for a small office.
Which records a housing society must keep, statutory retention periods, members' right to inspect documents, access control and committee handover.
How a housing society should handle defaulters: the notice ladder, lawful enforcement, what societies may not do, recovery through the registrar
Free maintenance due notice template for housing societies: legal wording, arrears breakdown, payment deadline and proof of service. Download the PDF.
An escalation ladder for maintenance dues: reminder timing, tone, interest on arrears, defaulter lists, and what a committee may legally do about non-payment.
How an app-based gate intercom works: guard calls the resident's phone, approve or deny a visitor remotely, and what happens when nobody answers.
How a resident panic button works in a housing society: raising an SOS, guard acknowledgement, resolution, drills, and the audit trail committees need.
Planning housing society events: the annual calendar, budgets and approvals, noise and permission rules, volunteers, safety and what to record afterwards.
The managing committee election process for Indian housing societies: eligibility, nominations, returning officer, secret ballot
How QR checkpoint patrols replace paper guard registers: route design, scan proof, missed-round alerts, and the evidence committees need at AGM.
Parking, water, arrears, seepage, noise and committee conflict: the problems every Indian housing society has, and the structural fixes that work.
How to run complaints in a housing society: categories, ownership, response targets, escalation to the committee, and the record that settles disputes.
A pre-monsoon checklist for Indian housing societies: terrace and waterproofing, drainage, electrical safety, trees, pumps, and what to keep stocked.
Police verification for domestic help in India: who is responsible, how to apply online, what a society may require, and how to run gate access fairly.
How to run a suggestion process in a housing society: collecting ideas, upvoting, triage by the committee, what to do with rejected ideas
How a maker-checker billing approval workflow stops wrong maintenance bills going out: preview, validate, approve with a second admin, then issue.
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