Furnishing Rental Firm FlatFurnish Raises Angel Funding

Gurgaon-based furnishing rental company, FlatFurnish.com, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Jabong Founder Arun Chandra Mohan. The funding will be used in expansion of the company.
Furniture inventory posted on the website is manufactured by the company itself. Flatfurnish follows in-house designing of products to make sure that the products being manufactured are durable

It was founded by IIT Kanpur Alumni, Jyoti Goyal, Aritra Saha and Jeetesh Agrawal. All three co-founders have also led teams for companies in eCommerce sector, like Jabong, Quikr & Wadi.

FlatFurnish does not only help newly settled to rent furniture but it also has other appliances, fitness products and also offers packages according to the size of the place. Instead of renting a furnished flat, people can now choose to get an unfurnished one and rent the furniture and appliances too.

They’re a marketplace where vendors manufacture designs for the company and the payment is made on a monthly basis. The company follows in-house designing of products to make sure that the products being manufactured are durable and their quality is maintained over a period of time.

On the business model, Jeetesh stated that renting makes sense because there is a huge price gap in the rent of furnished and unfurnished apartments.

Rentomojo is one similar company that provides service to rent furniture, it  raised $2 million in November 2015. Other competitors include Furlenco, Rentongo, Rentwala etc.

Resource: http://www.iamwire.com/2016/01/furnishing-rental-company-flatfurnish-raises-funding-jabong-founder-arun-chandra-mohan/129544

Rentomojo helps young professionals do up their house the rental way

When Divya Sharma joined a startup in Mumbai, she moved to a tiny flat in the suburbs and signed up with online rental company Rentomojo for a one-room package on rent – a bed with a mattress, a bean bag, a cupboard and a side table – for a monthly fee of Rs 1100. The refundable deposit was Rs 2200. “I knew I could rent furniture for as long as I want – six months or one year – and cancel the subscription when I no longer needed it.”

For young professionals who are not sure which city their next job is going to take them to, doing up their new home with furniture brought on rent is an easy way out. And it is this emerging market that Rentomojo, run by Bangalore-based Edunetwork Pvt Ltd, is eyeing. An online rental marketplace which currently deals in furniture, furnishings, home appliances and bikes, it has 4,500 subscribers, it claims. The 16-month-old startup has now set a target of 1-1.5 lakh subscribers in the next 18 months.

“We can be a good profitable company in the next 18 months,” says Geetansh Bamania, CEO & founder, Rentomojo, adding that he is bullish on the emergence of an access economy in the country.

According to him, people today are hiring cars, furniture, home appliances, among other things, instead of outright purchases. While the furniture market in India is $16 billion, growing at 25 per cent month-on-month, the furniture and appliances rental market is $5-7 billion, he says. And with more than one crore rental properties available, the furniture rental business has immense potential, says Bamania.

Jitendra Gupta, founder, Citrus Pay, who is also an investor in rival furniture and appliance rental startup Cityfurnish, says the return on investment in this space is high as the capital invested by these startups is recovered in the span of 12-18 months. “Startups operating in this space have cash accruals right from day one. On an average, the Ebidta (earnings before interest, depreciation, tax and amortisation) margin in these businesses are 30-35 per cent,” says Gupta.

Rentomojo sees people in the 24-35 years age group with disposable income of Rs 30,000-40,000 as potential customers. The price difference between unfurnished and furnished rental properties in India is around Rs 10,000, and “this is where we come in”, says Bamania.

Fitting the pieces

“We furnish a one BHK apartment for a monthly rent of just Rs 4000. If a person buys this same furniture, he will have to shell out more than Rs 1 lakh and Rs 15,000-20,000 in terms of relocation, plus the hassles,” he say. “Rentomojo sells a convenience factor which is affordable to the pocket,” he adds.

Rentomojo, itself, works on an asset-light model. “When a consumer orders on our platform, we procure the assets from our vendors and give it to the consumers,” says Bamania. Customers need to submit identification and address proof besides a security deposit. The startup keeps 40-50 per cent of the rental fee as commission on every booking, with the remainder going to the vendor.

The asset-light business model has attracted many startups, and investors in their wake, to this space. Peer-to-peer renting marketplace Rentomo.com, received seed funding of $100,000 in January. FlatFurnish recently raised angel funding from former Jabong CEO Arun Chandra Mohan. WhatsOnRent raised angel funding from CommonFloor.com co-founder Lalit Mangal and other investors in January. RentOnGo, had earlier secured angel funding from Snapdeal’s chief product officer Anand Chandrasekaran, GSF India founder Rajesh Sawhney and other angel investors.
In March 2015, Furlenco, which has its own range of furniture, meanwhile raised $6 million (Rs 38 crore) in a Series A round of funding from LightBox Ventures.

Looking beyond

Last year, Rentomojo raised $2 million in pre-Series A funding from Accel Partners and IDG Ventures India. Its services are available in Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune and Gurgaon, and it plans to enter the Delhi and Noida markets soon. It is also in talks with potential investors to raise Series A funding to fund its expansion plans.

Currently, nearly half of Rentomojo’s subscribers are from Mumbai. “We are growing our customer base and revenue at 30 per cent month-on-month,” he says.

Rentomojo is looking to enter the transport and clothing rental spaces in the next few months. “We are looking to cater to the entire lifestyle segment in the rental business,” said Bamania.

The car rental space already has several players such as Myles, ZoomCar and JustRide, among others, and Rentomojo would be a late entrant here. Rentomojo still remains a small player in the bike rental space. Earlier this month, JustRide raised $400,000 in angel funding. Last year, ZoomCar had raised $11 million from investors.

However, Bamania is unfazed and says that its offerings would be very different compared to the other existing players in the market. “We would launch those categories that align with the existing line of business we have,” he says.

In the clothing rental space also, there are a few startups, but most of them, such as FlyRobe, Klozee and LibeRent, rent out premium fashion wear. Recently, Klozee.com had secured an undisclosed amount in seed funding from startup incubator TracxnLabs and other unnamed angel investors.

As Sharma says, “rental costs don’t hurt much” when compared to the hassles of buying, transporting and then selling a piece of furniture or even a car.

Resource: http://techcircle.vccircle.com/2016/04/07/rentomojo-helps-young-professionals-do-up-their-house-the-rental-way/

Rentals Available in Rockville

Search through a list of some of the top rentals in the area compiled by real estate website Zillow.
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Zillow has more than 6,000 rentals available in Maryland and over 1,000 of those are in Montgomery County.

Here’s a list of some of the latest rentals in the area, provided by Zillow. You can also add your listing in the comments section below.
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According to the National Multifamily Housing Council, 37 percent of U.S. households are renter-occupied. In Maryland, 14.4 percent of the state’s population is made up of renters.

With Zillow, it’s easy to find your perfect place and be a part of that percentage.

Zillow’s search feature allows you to customize your quest for the ideal abode by providing options for price, number of bedrooms, home type and more. And if that’s not specific enough, draw any shape (we suggest a big heart!) on the map to see listings in the exact area that you want to live.

There’s even a handy rent affordability calculator that will only show you rentals in your budget!

Take a look at the Realtor’s description of one of the top properties for rent in Rockville located at 5405 Tuckerman Ln:

    Offering a beautiful natural setting, Jefferson at Inigo's Crossing features one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments along with multiple floorplan options. The gourmet kitchen features modern appliances and rich wood cabinetry, while the beautiful granite countertops and low maintenance tile flooring further enhance its appearance and a large pantry helps you maintain a neat and efficient workspace. The living room welcomes you in with a warm two-tone paint scheme, which adds a modern flair and soft wall-to-wall carpeting. Within Jefferson at Inigo's Crossing, you'll also enjoy luxurious community amenities. Kick back and enjoy the current sporting events at the onsite modern sports pub or cool off and have fun at the resort-inspired swimming pool. Beautifully landscaped courtyards are perfect for enjoying a few private moments and the conference room offers a way to conduct business away from the office. At Jefferson Inigo's Crossing 24-hour concierge service is at your disposal and emergency maintenance is a phone call away.

Check back every week for a listing of the latest rentals in the area.

If you’ve changed your mind and are looking to own, take a look at the most recent list of homes for sale in Rockville.
Resource: http://patch.com/maryland/rockville/rentals-available-rockville-72

Renting: It’s a Process

First of all, I would like to say welcome to adulthood! You’ve grown out of the dorm life (thank the stars) and you’re ready to rent! Whether it’s alone or with a rad group of friends, renting a place will lead you down a road of excitement, tons of phone calls to your parents, maybe some tears and some serious “how will I afford this” freak out sessions, but hey, it’s all about how you look at it.

Find a place

Now, UWM does have a housing office that can help you with this process, its on the ground floor by the Union Station if you didn’t know. But a lot of people will use websites to look at houses and apartments.

You’re more than likely going to look at tons of places before you find one that’s reasonably affordable, or if you’re anything like me: will let you have a cat.

Tour the place

After you find the place, you need to see the place. This part is always really fun because it is so freaking awkward, especially if you go alone. For example, during my apartment showing the current resident was in the shower while I was walking around their bedroom, kitchen and living room, with the landlord asking me how I was feeling about it.

But no matter the situation it’s important to come prepared with a handy full page list of questions you should probably get from your parents.

List of questions from parents:

    What does my rent pay for?
    Internet provider?
    What is the heating system?
    Is it safe?
    How far away are your friends/significant other?
    What kitchen appliances do you have? How old are they?

But there are also questions you should be able to answer for yourself, such as:

    Can I picture my really cute tapestry on this wall, or that wall?
    IS THAT A DISHWASHER?!?!
    Is the closet big enough for all your clothes?
    Is there good selfie lighting?
    Is there a place to get that cliché group of friends in front of the American Flag pic?

Sign that lease!

After you have found a place that you can see yourself calling home, it’s time to get serious with a lease.

The lease is probably the most intimidating part of this process. You’re going to go to this appointment and sign a bunch of papers saying you will pay everything on time, not destroy anything and if you do you will pay for it. It’s basically you imagining to your bank account empty and your hours at work triple for the next few weeks.

Then you are (probably) going to sign the biggest check of your life.

Then you are (probably) going to go home and realize you need food and new clothes and cry because you can’t afford them.

(This is where my favorite bottle of wine came in handy while I pretended to shop on Pinterest.)

All in all, renting is exciting! It’s stressful and really scary at first but its all about adjusting to adulthood and making sacrifices of what you want for what you need. So, enjoy your renting process and go adult as best as you can.

Resource: http://uwmpost.com/fringe/renting-its-a-process

Mistress Carrie interviews Comedian Paul Mecurio

Comedian Paul Mecurio, is my long lost brother. He grew up in Providence, in an Italian family, and is now living in enemy territory in NYC, doing stand up, and contributing to the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He called in to talk about his upcoming shows at Comix Comedy Club at Mohegan Sun April 7-9. But, we ended up talking about The Daily Show, dildos, Monica Lewinsky, Stephen Colbert, cold cuts, Pablo Sandoval, family, and so much more. Check out my interview here!

Transcript - Not for consumer use. Robot overlords only. Will not be accurate.

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Exclusive: Online home rental startup Homigo turns into a marketplace

Homigo Realty Pvt Ltd, a Bangalore-based startup that rents out furnished houses, has tweaked its business model to become a managed marketplace as it seeks to expand its services to low-demand areas and reduce risks related to low occupancy.

“The marketplace model is helping us to expand quickly,” Nikunj Batheja, co-founder and CEO of Homigo, told Techcircle.in.

Homigo earlier operated on a managed inventory system where it used to take houses on rent from owners, equip the houses with furniture and appliances, and then offer those to tenants on a sharing basis. Property owners were offered a fixed rent every month as per the market value, irrespective of whether the startup managed to find tenants for those properties or not.

The houses were rented out mostly in high-demand areas selected on the basis of parameters such as location, connectivity and other amenities. This model worked well in areas where demand—and as a result occupancy–was high, but not in areas where there were few takers for rental properties.

Now, Homigo asks owners to get the house furnished themselves and offers them furniture at discounted pricing though its partners. It lists the houses on the platform after all prerequisite checks including contract signing, furnishing, cleaning and fixing power, gas and other connections are done.

This means that owners now get rent only when the house is occupied. Homigo pays bills for WiFi, DTH television, electricity and cooking gas, and takes a fee for its services before transferring money to the owners. “We use our resources and expertise to manage their houses and to find and manage tenants. As the house gets occupied, we transfer the deposit and then the rent every month (after deducting our cut),” he said.

Batheja claimed that the startup is already operationally profitable and that the marketplace model will help maintain operational profitability. The new model, he said, will also allow owners to decide the rent on a per-bed basis and enable them to earn more than the market rent.

Homigo was founded by Batheja along with Jatin Mitruka and Aakash Verma, all IIT Kanpur graduates, in July 2015. With a team of 16, the startup claims to have about 500 beds on board with an occupancy rate of 86 per cent in Bangalore. It plans to reach 1,000 beds in next three months.

The company raised $200,000 in seed funding from a group of investors including Livspace CEO Anuj Srivastava and Mebelkart CEO Rahul Agarwal in October 2015. The company is in advanced talks to raise its next round of investment.

India’s online real estate market has been evolving with innovative initiatives coming from new-age startups. The segment has grown from being limited to property discovery earlier to a tech-enabled business for both property owners and customers to rent or buy and sell property without third-party involvement.

Homigo’s direct rival is Nestaway Technologies Pvt Ltd, a startup that runs a managed home rental marketplace by the same name. Nestaway raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Tata Sons chairman emeritus Ratan Tata recently. IT had raised Rs 76 crore (approximately $12 million) in funding from e-commerce firm Flipkart and its investor Tiger Global in June 2013.

Zocalo’s CoHo Stayz, a tech platform that offers managed apartments and villas in the Delhi-NCR region for long stays, had raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from startup accelerator GSF’s Rajesh Sawhney, MakeMyTrip co-founder Sachin Bhatia and others in August last year.

Zenify, a rental management startup, raised Rs 4 crore from angel investors including Manthan founder Atul Jalan last year.

The Indian online realty market is dominated by Info Edge’s 99acres and Times group-owned MagicBricks. PropTiger, Quikr, Housing.com and IndiaProperty are among the other major players. PropTiger is part owned by News Corp, which acquired the parent of this website in March 2015.

Resource: http://techcircle.vccircle.com/2016/04/08/exclusive-online-home-rental-startup-homigo-turns-into-a-marketplace/

Furlenco unveils first look of infomercial with TVF in Pune

New Delhi, Apr 18 (ANI): Furlenco, India's first and largest online furniture rental company revealed the first look of its infomercial in association with TVF (The Viral Fever), a popular digital content platform, at Pune's Hard Rock Cafe.

The furniture rental giant also announced its expansion plans in the city amidst a mixed audience including media, first few customers of Furlenco from Pune, TVF Team, Furlenco exec team, Members from Lightbox Venture Capital team and many more.

Based out of Bangalore, Furlenco was established in the year 2012, followed by its Mumbai launch in October 2015 with the purpose of elevating the living standards of urban aspirers who often end up compromising on their need for a good-looking home due to lack of desirable and convenient solutions.

Furlenco gives them access to premium products, which can be used for as long as it is required, without investing heavily in buying it. After beautifying 5000+ homes in Bangalore and Mumbai in the past one year, Furlenco made its grand entry into the Pune market riding on a campaign with Uber on April 1st.

The Pune operations will coincide with launch of three new offerings including a Chill Zone, Bachelor's Pad and Sleepover. Customers can place their orders online at Furlenco and get free doorstep delivery and installations within a week. They can also swap furniture annually based on their needs.

Commenting on the launch, Ajith Mohan Karimpana, Founder and CEO of Furlenco said, "TVF is an immensely popular youth-centric digital content platform in our country, which boasts of more than 15,00,000 viewers. The idea of launching an infomercial with TVF came from a simple thought of introducing Furlenco to the youth of this city as well as all the other metropolitan cities, who are also our target group."

"We aim to make aspirations of Pune's aspirers more accessible by providing premium designer furniture on rent. They can now Have Everything and Buy Nothing," added Ajith.

Pune launch is a part of Furlenco's nationwide expansion, which it will follow by setting up its operations across every tier 1 city in India. By reaching out to every urban Indian on the move, Furlenco envisions to create a successful global name in the rental furniture service category and provide a seamless rental experience to all its customers. (ANI)

Resource:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Furlenco-unveils-first-look-of-infomercial-with-TVF-in-Pune/articleshow/51879327.cms

Review: Confessions—It’s Complicated

It’s an idea whose time has come: A show aimed at young people that launches on Facebook and whose protagonist engages with audiences on social media.

Confessions—It’s Complicated, which was launched on Facebook and YouTube on 4 April, uses its partnership with Facebook India to communicate with its audience. Additional clips are uploaded on the show’s Facebook page, some of which are live streamed, and the characters have profiles and talk to the audience through posts.

Made by Freemantle Media India, which makes reality television programmes such as Indian Idol, India’s Got Talent and Savdhaan India, Confessions is a light-hearted show that doesn’t ask much of its audience—the short episodes (each is around 10 minutes) have simple plots and characters. It is about three 23-year-olds—Nupur Murthy from Coimbatore, Raka Ghosh from Kolkata and Sameera Saxena from New Delhi—who go to Mumbai for their first job. They work for a news organization called Pulse, where Nupur and Sameera write features and Raka is a photographer. The seven episodes so far are about events such as the girls’ first assignment, a missed deadline, getting a car and apartment hunting.

The series uses exaggeration and caricature to get ideas across. For example, the apartment hunting scenes in episode 3 have the girls climbing over old furniture and squeezing through really narrow doorways to get into apartments.

The most interesting thing about this show is its effort to give its viewers something extra through social media. The creators have individualized the Facebook pages of each of the fictional characters. Sameera, who is acknowledged as the best at taking selfies in the series, has some good self-portraits on her Facebook page, for example. Their presence on Facebook is designed to make the girls more accessible and to get the audience involved in their fates. But when the same announcements and promotional material appear across the four accounts—three for the girls and one for the show itself—it jerks you out of the illusion that these are real people’s profiles and pages.

The sponsors of the show all get a fair amount of air time—the product placement is painfully obvious. A red GenX Nano features across multiple episodes of Confessions, as do other sponsors such as music streaming app Saavn and apparel e-retailer Myntra.

The title is confusing—seven episodes down, it’s not apparent what is complicated about the show. If anything, the protagonists’ lives are overly sorted. Despite the drama of squeezing through narrow doorways and jumping over boxes to see apartments, the girls are able to find a place they like and negotiate rent with the landlord within the course of a day. Their editor gives them a week to work on their first assignment, a generous time frame by most accounts.

In some ways, it’s a good thing that the show is not complicated. It makes it easy to watch, if you just want to take a 10-minute break from work or have a few minutes to kill while you wait for someone.

Resource:http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/TI8ALXfOEW8Pw3DUsUr6uJ/Review-ConfessionsIts-Complicated.html

RentSher helps startups, SMEs in their journey to make big

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New Delhi, Apr 21 (ANI-NewsVoir): With the easy funding flow of 2015 drying up, the theme of the season today including guidance from VC and investor community is to execute like a cockroach. It means survive under extreme conditions like cockroaches do. Even the theme around unplugged 2016 happening in May is also around the same with different entrepreneurs and investors giving their view on why this approach is important.

Setting up a simple office for a small team of 10-15 people is daunting and expensive tasks. Apart from your usual expenses such as rent and bills, you could be spending upwards of Rs. 1.5L on office desks, chairs and other furniture.

A good corei5 laptop, which costs above Rs. 40,000/- for team of 15 will set you back by another 6L. Add to that server, printers, UPS, projector and so on so forth, you will be looking at upfront investment of Rs. 10 lakh even before your first day in new office.

Investing heavily in depreciating assets could kill your startup even before it starts. Fortunately that is where office furniture on rent and laptops on rent comes into picture with companies like RentSher providing the complete office equipment on hire reducing your upfront capital investment and allows your infrastructure to grow gradually as you grow.

RentSher is a marketplace and has tie ups with top laptop provides in Bangalore and Delhi NCR. This allows them to cater to any order size from single laptop for a day for a presentation to more than 100 laptops for month if you are conducting training, marketing campaigns, etc.

Currently serving in Bangalore and Delhi NCR including Gurgaon being the hub for startups; RentSher already has close to 50 corporate clients benefiting from its services including likes of Pikipoll - a social market discovery platform, Icarus - well known design firm, Stockal Software, Ultimus - a BPM company, Westside apparels, Liveair enterprise mobile solutions and even BBMP during the Bangalore local election times.

Customers for RentSher range from students renting laptops for academic projects, startups renting PCs for their team, training institute and even city councils who need laptops and projectors just for few hours for elections, trainings or key agenda dissemination. (ANI-NewsVoir)

Resource: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/RentSher-helps-startups-SMEs-in-their-journey-to-make-big/articleshow/51922621.cms