One yearly fee for scheduled pre-monsoon, AC and plumbing checks in your flat
TL;DR Tendyear sells flat owners a yearly upkeep plan - four or five scheduled visits timed to the seasons, covering seepage and drains before the monsoon, AC service before summer, plumbing and an electrical safety check. Owners pay one annual fee through their society. It might work because most city flats are old enough to need care, and nobody plans it.
City flats are ageing. In the national housing survey, 31.3% of urban households lived in flats, and 78.8% of urban owned homes were 5 to 40 years old, with only 7.8% built in the previous five years[1]. Older buildings leak, block and trip, and they don't wait for a convenient week.
Most owners still fix things only after they fail. Booking is per job - one large platform's Bangalore rate card lists an AC foam-jet service from ₹649, gas charging at ₹2,800 and compressor replacement at ₹4,000–5,000[2]. A clogged balcony drain found in July becomes a damp wall by August. The cost is not only the repair. It's the week of calls, the leave taken, and the neighbour below whose ceiling stains.
Tendyear turns upkeep into a calendar. When an owner joins, a technician spends an hour on a baseline check of the flat, covering taps, traps, drains, AC units, the electrical board, window seals and visible damp. The owner gets a short report with photos and a schedule for the year.
Visits then happen on fixed dates that match the season. Before the monsoon, the team clears outlets and checks sealant around windows and bathroom joints. Before summer, ACs get a wet service. Mid-year, plumbing and the water tank connection are checked. Before Diwali, an electrician tests earthing and the main board. Small fixes found on a visit are included up to a set limit. Bigger jobs are quoted at a published rate.
Selling through the housing society matters a lot. One talk at an RWA meeting can reach 200 flats, and clustering visits in one building cuts travel time, which is where home-service margins usually go.
The flat owner pays, often an owner who rents the flat out or a couple both at work. Today they pay per job - an AC service alone runs ₹549–649 a unit on one platform[2], and one property platform sells a membership that gives up to 15% off its services[3] but no schedule. My pricing assumption is ₹6,000–9,000 a year for a two-bedroom flat with two ACs.
Home services have become a listed, scaled business. The largest home-services platform listed on the stock exchanges in September 2025 and reported ₹1,144 crore of revenue for FY25[4], which shows that urban households already buy trusted services online. Yet the large platforms still sell visit by visit[2][3], leaving the planned-upkeep slot open.
I found no public figure for home-maintenance subscriptions in India. A bottom-up count is the more honest start - almost a third of urban households live in flats, and most of those homes are past their first five years[1]. Start with one city's gated societies of 150 flats or more and count them.
The big home-services platforms sell AC, plumbing and electrical jobs one at a time with short repair warranties[2]. One property platform offers a discount membership across its home services[3]. Neither, on the pages I checked, sells a fixed calendar of preventive visits for a yearly fee. Within this directory, Eaveswell plans upkeep for older independent houses, while Tendyear targets flats and sells through societies.
| Difficulty | Moderate (36/100) |
| Starting capital | ₹45–85 L |
| Time to launch | 4–6 months |
The software is simple. The hard part is people - hiring and keeping technicians who can do several trades, turning up on the promised date and pricing the included small fixes so a few bad flats do not eat the margin.
No special licence here. A yearly maintenance plan has no sector permit, so you need the baseline plus one trade rule.
Building this outside India? The categories above usually have a local equivalent, so check with your own regulator.
Don't trust AI to judge electrical safety. Earthing and board checks need a licensed electrician's eyes and sign-off.
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Here's what can go south -
I see a solid local business here for an operator who has run field teams and likes process. If you want an app-only company then it's a weak fit. Prove two things first - that a single society of 200 flats gives you 40 paid plans, and that you can serve them at a cost under 60% of the fee.
Plan for roughly ₹45–85 L, mostly on technicians, tools and the first year of selling to housing societies.
No sector licence. You need company registration, GST, a Shops and Establishments registration and licensed electricians for electrical work, plus DPDP compliance for owner data.
Yes, the model works wherever people live in apartments. Check local trade licensing for electricians and plumbers before you sell.
The free Tendyear validation kit has the line-by-line capital breakdown, the effort scoring, the compliance checklist, a 14-day validation sprint with pass/fail targets, a 90-day launch plan, 10 interview questions for flat owners and societies, and 5 assumptions to test. Download the kit →
Thinking about building Tendyear or something close to it? The make-or-break work is pricing the yearly plan so that old, leaky flats do not wipe out the margin, and that's the kind of maths I like working through with founders. If you need a hand, you know where to find me. Talk to Yash →
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