This website is not backed by any major corporate, and doesn’t have any VC funding behind it. As of now it is complete run by me through my own personal money (bootstrapped).

What’s the idea?

It all started with our own personal experience when we purchased an apartment in Bangalore from a small builder.

We were promised that we will be able to occupy the apartment in June 2007 (one year after purchase). However, we actually got the possession in September 2008 – 15 months after the promised date. This was a long enough period to give root to the idea of having a dedicated resource for people looking at buying property and other real estate services.

It would have been so much better if I could look up somewhere about the past performance of a builder in terms of how good they are in terms of quality and other criteria. Though this information is available, it is very scattered and may take some time to gather.

PerSquareFeet is developed with the hope that it will be able to solve this problem to some extent by providing enough information to the users about service providers in their area.

The objective is three-fold:

1. To be able to collect quality information (including reviews) about service providers

2. To be able to  use our knowledgebase to understand how things work

3. To be able to ask specific questions to get to-the-point answers

The website is just launched and is not very content rich yet but it will soon get there