Rent collection that lands
Standing instruction set up with the tenant, reminders on the 1st and 3rd, a follow-up call on the 6th. Money moves to your account, not ours — we never hold your rent overnight.
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1,284 doors under management
Adyar · OMR · Anna Nagar · Alwarpet
Your Chennai home, run properly — from wherever you live.
GRUHA collects the rent, screens the tenant, closes the repair and sends you one honest statement a month. No group chats at 2am. No cousin doing you a favour. A desk that answers.
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Adyar
Besant Nagar
Thiruvanmiyur
Anna Nagar
Alwarpet
Nungambakkam
T. Nagar
Velachery
Perungudi
Thoraipakkam
Sholinganallur
Navalur
Kilpauk
Mylapore
Porur
Guindy
What the desk handles
Six jobs that eat an owner’s weekend. We take all six.
Most owners don’t want a “portal”. They want the rent in the account, the tap fixed, and a number that picks up. GRUHA is built around those three, then everything underneath them.
Tenant finding & screening
Listed across four portals plus our own waitlist, shortlisted by us, verified on employment, prior landlord and police record. You see three finalists, not thirty enquiries.
Maintenance, closed properly
Tenant raises it on WhatsApp, we triage the same day, a bench vendor attends, we photograph the work and bill it at cost plus a flat visit fee. Nothing over ₹5,000 without your nod.
One statement a month
Rent in, fee out, repairs itemised with the bill attached, CAM and property tax tracked. Downloadable as PDF and CSV — your CA will actually thank you at filing time.
Agreements & compliance
Rental agreement drafted in the Tamil Nadu format, e-stamped, registered where the tenure demands it, and renewed 60 days before expiry — not on the day it lapses.
The NRI desk
A named manager who works your timezone, video walkthroughs on request, NRO-friendly statements with TDS references, and a Power of Attorney checklist that doesn’t need six trips home.
Why GRUHA exists
A rented flat is a small business. Most owners run it on hope.
In 2019 our founder, Meera Rajagopalan, was managing her father’s two flats in Besant Nagar from Bengaluru. Rent arrived when it arrived. A geyser leak went unreported for eleven days. The agreement had lapsed four months earlier and nobody had noticed.
She found no one in Chennai doing the boring part properly — the follow-ups, the receipts, the photographs, the paperwork. So GRUHA started with nine doors in Adyar and a rule we still keep: every rupee that moves gets a line item, and every line item gets a document.
Started
2019
Nine doors, one scooter
Owners today
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Across 1,284 managed doors
Handovers this month
63 keys
Owner NPS
71
Signature — Owner Desk
The screen our owners actually open.
A live, clickable version of the GRUHA owner desk. Pick a property, push a maintenance ticket down the pipeline, and watch the month’s statement recalculate itself. Everything here behaves the way the real desk does.
Illustrative portfolio built for this demo. Figures are representative of a mid-sized Chennai portfolio and are not the results of any specific owner.
Maintenance pipeline — Sea Breeze
Click advance on any ticket to move it along. Once a ticket is billed, it drops into this month’s statement automatically.
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Sea Breeze — 3BHK, Besant Nagar
Statement GRU-1042 / AUG-2026Net payout to you
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Credited to your NRO or savings account
Collected this FY
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April 2026 to date, this door
Documents attached
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Receipts, vendor bills, CAM slip
Illustrative statement. TDS on rent, GST treatment and society dues vary by owner residency status and by building — a real statement is prepared against real invoices.
Tenant finding
Vacant on the 1st. Signed by the 21st.
Twenty-one days is our median, not our best case. Here is exactly what happens in those three weeks — and what you are asked to do, which is very little.
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Day 0–2 · Price, shoot, list
We walk the flat, quote a rent band against the last twelve comparable closings in your pocket of the city, shoot 18–24 photographs and a 40-second walkthrough, then list on four portals plus our own waitlist of 3,100 verified tenants.
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Day 3–12 · Show and shortlist
Every viewing is accompanied — no keys handed to strangers. We filter on budget, family size, notice period and preferences before anyone gets an appointment, so your flat does not become a weekend tourist spot.
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Day 12–16 · Verify hard
Employment letter and last three salary credits, prior landlord reference call, Aadhaar and PAN match, and police verification filed at the local station. If any one of these does not clear, the applicant never reaches you.
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Day 16–21 · Agreement and keys
Agreement drafted in the Tamil Nadu format, e-stamped and, for tenures past twelve months, registered. Deposit and first month clear into your account before a single key changes hands. Inventory signed with 60+ photographs.
Applicants screened per door
11 average
Rejection rate
0%
Applicants who fail verification
Renewals
0%
Tenants who stay past year one
Vacancy protection
On full-manage and NRI plans, if we do not sign a tenant within 45 days of listing, you pay no management fee until we do.
Signature — Pricing per door
Price it yourself. Per door, per month, no surprises.
Set how many doors you own and pick a service tier. The number updates live, volume discount included. Nothing is bundled that you did not choose.
How many doors?
2
doors under management
Volume discount starts at the 2nd door and steps up again at 4, 7 and 12.
Service tier
Add-ons
Add-on prices are per door, per month.
Full manage
8% volume discount
₹
4,598
per month, all doors, GST extra
Per door
₹2,299
Doors
2
Annual
₹55,176
You save ₹4,798 a year against list price
What each tier includes
| Included | Collect | Full | NRI |
|---|
One-time onboarding
₹2,500
Audit, inventory and photo set — waived on 3+ doors
Tenanting fee
15 days
Of one month’s rent, charged only on signing
Exit clause
30 days
Written notice. No penalty, all files handed over
For owners abroad
412 of our owners have never met their tenant.
They live in Dubai, Singapore, New Jersey and Slough. What they have in common is a flat in Chennai and no appetite for a 4am phone call about a leaking sump. The NRI desk is built around that.
Chennai · IST
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Singapore · SGT
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New Jersey · EDT
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Desk open
Times above are live. “Desk open” means a GRUHA manager is on shift right now in Chennai (06:00–23:00 IST, seven days).
A manager on your clock
You are assigned one named person, not a rota. If you are in EDT, your review call is 08:30 your time. If you are in GST, it is after your office hours. We move; you do not.
Repatriation-friendly statements
Every statement carries the TDS reference, the NRO credit line and the rent-versus-expense split your CA needs for Form 15CA/CB. No re-typing bank narrations at year end.
Video walkthrough on request
Ask any weekday and we will walk your flat on a live call within 48 hours — taps running, balcony grill, meter reading, the lot. Recorded and filed against the property.
PoA support
Guided
Draft, attest, courier
Currency
INR only
We never touch FX
Escalation
2 hours
For anything flagged urgent
Owners abroad
412
Across 19 countries
The bench
146 vendors we have already argued with, so you don’t have to.
Every trade below is a rated, background-checked panel — not a number scribbled on a society noticeboard. Rates are pre-agreed and printed on your statement.
Plumbing
28 empanelled
Electrical
31 empanelled
Appliance & AC
22 empanelled
Painting
17 empanelled
Carpentry
24 empanelled
Deep cleaning
14 empanelled
Pest control
6 empanelled
Waterproofing
4 empanelled
Locks & security
9 empanelled
Packers & movers
5 empanelled
Modular & interiors
8 empanelled
Civil & masonry
11 empanelled
Same-day triage
Photo before & after
Pre-agreed rate card
₹5,000 owner-approval line
90-day workmanship cover
Aadhaar-verified technicians
No cash to tenants, ever
Paperwork, done once, done right
The agreement is where most owners quietly lose money.
A one-page template off the internet will not protect a deposit, define a lock-in, or survive a dispute. Ours is drafted for Tamil Nadu, reviewed by our panel advocate, and updated every time the rules move.
e-Stamped and registeredFiled under the TN Regulation of Rights and Responsibilities of Landlords and Tenants Act, 2017
Deposit held by youNever by GRUHA. We only reconcile and document the settlement at exit
Renewal at T-60 daysEscalation, revised rent and re-stamping handled two months before expiry
Panel advocate on callFor eviction notices, deposit disputes and society matters, at a fixed fee
Get your agreement reviewed free
GRUHA is a property management firm, not a law firm. Legal opinions come from our panel advocate.
Homes on the book
A look at what sits under management.
Towers in Thoraipakkam, independent floors in Anna Nagar, sea-facing 3BHKs in Besant Nagar. Different buildings, identical process.
Owners
What changed after they handed us the keys.
Composite accounts written for this demo from the kind of feedback a property desk hears. Illustrative, not verbatim client quotes.
For six years I chased rent over WhatsApp from Dubai and felt like the villain. Now I open one statement on the 7th and that is the entire relationship. My tenant and I are on good terms again, mostly because we barely speak.
Karthik V.2 doors · Thoraipakkam · owner in Dubai
My flat in Anna Nagar sat empty for five months before GRUHA. They repriced it ₹3,000 lower, shot it properly, and signed a tenant in nineteen days. The lower rent paid for itself in the first quarter.
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Lakshmi S.1 door · Anna Nagar
The part I did not expect: photographs. Every repair comes with a before and after picture and the vendor bill. I have stopped wondering whether I am being quietly overcharged, and that is worth the fee on its own.
Ravi & Anitha M.3 doors · Velachery and Perungudi
I inherited two flats in Mylapore and had no idea what to do with either. GRUHA audited both, told me one was worth renovating and the other was not, and then said so in writing. Nobody in this business writes down bad news.
PN
Preethi N.2 doors · Mylapore
Our tenant vacated with a damaged wardrobe and a missing geyser. The photo inventory from move-in settled it in one email — no argument, no lawyer, deposit adjusted and closed within a week.
GJ
George J.1 door · Alwarpet · owner in Slough
I run six doors across OMR. Before this I had six sets of receipts in six WhatsApp threads. Now it is one spreadsheet my auditor imports directly. That alone saved me two days in July.
SR
Suresh R.6 doors · OMR corridor
Signature — Onboarding
Five questions, one inspection slot, and we take it from there.
Tell us what you own and where it stands today. Pick a time for the free audit visit. The summary goes straight to our WhatsApp desk — no forms lost in an inbox.
What are we taking on?
Pick the closest match. You can add more doors later from the same account.
Which part of Chennai?
We cover the areas below with a manager living within 6 km of your door.
Where does the property stand today?
This decides whether we start with tenanting or straight with takeover.
Pick a slot for the free audit visit.
45 minutes on site. If you are abroad, pick any slot — your tenant or watchman lets us in and you join on video.
Struck-out slots are already taken this week. Sunday visits are on request only.
Almost done. Where do we reach you?
We confirm the slot on WhatsApp within the hour, during desk hours.
Step 1 of 5
Find the desk
We are on Sardar Patel Road, above the bakery.
Walk in with your agreement and a meter reading; walk out with a rent band. No appointment needed on weekdays.
Talk to a human
Phone & WhatsApp
+91 86691 17894 — one number for owners, tenants and vendors.
Email
owners@gruha.example · nri@gruha.example
Office
2nd Floor, Kasturi Arcade, 14 Sardar Patel Road, Adyar, Chennai 600020
Desk hours
Monday – Friday09:30 – 19:00
Saturday10:00 – 16:00
SundayEmergencies only
NRI desk, all days06:00 – 23:00 IST
Straight answers
The questions every owner asks in the first call.
To you. The tenant’s standing instruction points at your own bank account, so your money never sits with GRUHA overnight. We reconcile against your statement, chase what is short, and invoice our fee separately. Owners who prefer a pooled collection account can request it, but we do not recommend it and it is not our default.
Day 6 is a call, day 10 a written reminder, day 15 a formal notice under the agreement, day 30 a legal notice from our panel advocate and a deposit adjustment plan. You are told at every stage, in writing, before anything escalates. In four years, 0.9% of our doors have reached the legal notice stage — nearly all resolved inside the following month.
No margin on materials or labour. We add a flat ₹250 coordination fee per closed ticket, printed on the statement, and the vendor’s own bill is attached. Anything estimated above ₹5,000 waits for your written approval. If you would rather use your own electrician, we will call yours instead.
A limited Power of Attorney for signing agreements and receiving keys, your PAN, and your NRO account details. We send a drafted PoA and the attestation checklist for your country, and we coordinate with the consulate or notary on your side. Most NRI owners complete it in one appointment without flying home.
None for the first 90 days, and after that a 30-day written notice ends it. On exit we hand over the agreement, the inventory file, all vendor bills, the tenant’s contact and the payment history in one folder. We would rather you leave cleanly than stay unhappily.
Against the last twelve comparable closings within roughly one kilometre — not asking prices, which are usually 8–12% optimistic. We show you the twelve. If you want to list above the band, we will, and we will tell you honestly how many extra weeks it is likely to cost.
CAM and maintenance dues are tracked on every plan and paid on your behalf where you authorise it. Property tax and Metrowater filing is a ₹600 per door add-on because it needs your credentials and a portal session. Electricity stays in the tenant’s name; we verify the meter reading at move-in and move-out.
Yes for shops, clinics and small offices up to about 4,000 sq ft, and yes for residential buildings up to 24 doors under a single owner. Beyond that the pricing moves to a custom retainer — tell us the size on the audit call and we will quote it properly rather than stretch the per-door rate.
Taking on 40 new doors this quarter
Hand over the boring part. Keep the asset.
Book the free 45-minute audit. You get a written rent band and a repair list whether or not you ever sign with us.