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  1. What is ProperMAP?
  2. Why should I register my property in ProperMAP?
  3. How it is used? / What are the services?
  4. What are the two type of login accounts?
  5. How can I list my real-estate property in ProperMAP?
  6. How can I list my business/company/branch locations in ProperMAP?
  7. How can I edit/delete/move the previously added property items?
  8. Why should I provide a valid E-Mail ID?
  9. How can I correct my mis-spelled E-Mail ID before activating the account?
  10. How can I get a new email containing the activation link?
  11. How can I change the E-Mail ID and other details of my account?
  12. How can I recover my lost password?
  13. How can I delete my ProperMAP account and property listings altogether?
  14. What type of property, I can add to ProperMAP?
  15. Can I add photos and videos of the property?
  16. How can I add more details about the property?
  17. How long the property will remain listed in ProperMAP?
  18. How can I edit property details or relocate property, after it is added?
  19. When I search, sometimes I get a message like this: "Too many search items to display. Please refine your search criteria like distance." What is the reason?
  20. How many items I can add in the map?
  21. What is ProperMAP Real Estate Connector?
  22. What is ProperMAP Friend Connect?
  23. How can ProperMAP offer this service for FREE?
  24. If I have trouble or suggestions using ProperMAP?

What is ProperMAP?
ProperMAP is a free-to-net service where people can showcase their property  in the maps with its details and links to more information, so that users can search for these properties and can directly contact the property owners for further information and deals.

Why should I register my property in ProperMAP?

It's fast
Keep track of and informed of the properties listed out by you.
It's FREE
No more paying hundreds of dollars a year for listing your property that would not reach the customers!
It's good for you
You can use our FREE services. You can show all the property added by you in your website. For details see services.

How it is used?

What are the properMAP services?

ProperMAP is being used in four ways:
Property Listing
Property owners/sellers can list their property in the map with link to more details and contact information. This is a FREE service.
Property Search
Users who search for property for sale/service/rent can see the listings given by property owners.
Property Alerts
Users can subscribe for notifications regarding the property listing's additions/updates, for a concerned area and category.
Property Link
Property owners can get a link to the locations added only by them and can give this link to customers through email or in their website. For details see services.

What are the two type of login accounts?
To list your property, you have to create a free ProperMAP Customer Account. For that, select 'Create Account' here. To subscribe for alerts regarding property additions/updates you have to create a ProperMAP Subscriber Account here.

How can I list my real-estate property in ProperMAP?
First of all you have to create a free ProperMAP customer account. After activating the account from your e-mail and signed in, you can right click on the map to add the property to the map. Once added, you can later edit the property details after login to ProperMAP. For more details and step-by-step instructions, please see Real Estate Listing Service in ProperMAP blog.

How can I list my business/company/branch locations in ProperMAP?
First of all you have to create a free ProperMAP customer account. After activating the account from your e-mail and signed in, you can right click on the map to add the business location to the map. Once added, you can later edit the location details and fine-tune the location in map after login to ProperMAP. For more details and step-by-step instructions, please see Business Listing Service in ProperMAP blog.

How can I edit/delete/move the previously added property items?
Once added, you can later edit the property details after login to ProperMAP. Then right-click on the property marker in the map and select 'Edit' to change the details of previously added property. You can change the details of ONLY the property items added by you. You can drag the items to correct its location in map.

Why should I provide a valid E-Mail ID?
You should provide a valid E-Mail ID while creating the account, because:

Account Activation
You have to activate your account by simply clicking a link sent to your given E-Mail ID. We have to avoid spammers, and we take your privacy very seriously. See our privacy policy.
Contact Point
When someone searches to and interested in the property added by you, then they may sent a message to you through this address. Anyway your EMail-ID is not revealed to them, and that will be only when you reply to them (if you reply from the same email address).
Password Recovery
If you forgot your account password, then we will sent a password change link to this E-Mail for verification. That is, users can reset their password through this E-Mail ID.

How can I correct my mis-spelled E-Mail ID before activating the account?
If your account is not yet activated, you can change your E-Mail address and get a new activation link in that mailbox here.

How can I get a new E-Mail containing the activation link?
If your account is not yet activated, you can request a resend here.

How can I change the E-Mail ID and other details of my account?
You can change your CUSTOMER account profile settings here and your SUBSCRIBER account profile settings here.

How can I recover my lost password?
You can change your CUSTOMER account password in profile settings or at here and your SUBSCRIBER account password here.

How can I delete my ProperMAP account and property listings altogether?
You can permanently delete your account and property/business listings after sign in to the profile settings here.

What type of property, I can add to ProperMAP?
You can add property items that belongs to categories (termed as type) and sub categories (termed as subtype) specified in search page, that are for sales, service or rent. But, you are not allowed to add listings that are not location-specific, not authorized or not useful for people who search this site or that are spam in nature.
It is assumed that you are the owner or the authority of the property for the purpose of listing. People who visit/search this site has the facility to report abuse usage. ProperMAP will analyze the spam reporting based on the IP address and total votes. If ProperMAP has reasonable grounds to suspect that your listing is not location-specific, not authorized, not useful or spam in nature, ProperMAP has the right to indefinitely suspend or terminate your account and to remove your property listings, as governed by the terms and conditions.

Can I add photos and videos of the property?
We don't host photos and videos at the moment. But corresponding to each property you add, you can set a hyperlink to the URL (web address) of an image or a video from your website or from a FREE blogsite (Blogger, Flickr or Youtube, for example).

How can I add more details about the property?
You can add the details and photos in your website or in a FREE blogsite (Blogger, Flickr or Youtube, for example). Then you can set a hyperlink to that URL (web address), corresponding to each property you add.

How long the property will remain listed in ProperMAP?
If you do not login to your account once in a period of 6 months, then we send an E-Mail to you. If you still not to login in a month, your account and the property listings by you will be permanently removed. This is to keep our services up-to-date and to ensure the quality of our service. This rule applies to both customer and subscriber accounts.

How can I edit property details or relocate property, after it is added?
If you are signed out, again login to ProperMAP with your loginname and password. Now you can drag the property marker added by you to reposition it. Also you can right-click on the property marker and select 'Edit' to update its details or select 'Delete' to remove it entirely.

When I search, sometimes I get a message like this: "Too many search items to display. Please refine your search criteria like distance." What is the reason?
When there is a lot of search results to display that is too much to display in the map and difficult to analyze, ProperMAP will show such a message. What you can do is to limit your search criteria like sub-category, search radius etc.

How many items I can add in the map?
Currently the limit is 20 items for a single login, to maintain the quality of our service. If you have already reached this limit and want to add more, please contact us at the contact page.

What is ProperMAP Real Estate Connector (REC)?
ProperMAP Real Estate Connector allows live property chat for real estate property sellers and buyers in the country. Please see here, more details about REC.

What is ProperMAP Friend Connect (PFC)?
ProperMAP Friend Connect is for discussion about ProperMAP features and for suggestions.

How can ProperMAP offer this service for FREE?
We believe that for such a service to be widely usable, it should have free access. To offset the cost of providing the service, we use information gathered by your search to display online ads that are contextually relevant to your preferences. For details of the services we provide, see services.

Note 1: We take your privacy very seriously. So we treat all users' personal information with tremendous discretion, in accordance with our privacy policy and only to improve the quality of our service.
Note 2: ProperMAP does not charge any fee for browsing, posting or replying and offers BASIC property listing and searching services for FREE. But we reserve the right to charge a fee (especially for PREMIUM use,  for featured listing etc.) in the future if we wish to do with or without the explicit consent or approval of any user. ProperMAP reserves the right to change the fees and services at any point in the future.

If I have trouble or suggestions using ProperMAP?
If you have any issues or suggestions for improvement using ProperMAP, please report it at ProperMAP Friend Connect in ProperMAP blog. Alternately you can personally report it directly here. We always like to hear from you.


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