Karoly Windows is officially recognized as a “2025 Nextdoor Neighborhood Fave” in the social media platform’s 9th Annual Local Business Awards! This marks the third time Karoly Windows has earned this distinction from Nextdoor.
Tampa Florida, December 5, 2025 — Karoly Windows & Doors has been named a neighborhood fave in the social media platform’s annual awards program designed to recognize local businesses that are loved by the ‘neighbors’ in the app.
What is Nextdoor? How did Karoly Windows earn the “Neighborhood Fave” distinction? What does it mean?
What Is Nextdoor?
Nextdoor, for those who aren’t familiar with the social media platform, is a social networking platform with a strong emphasis on connecting users, referred to as ‘neighbors,’ to “the local gems around them – people, places, and information.” They emphasize localness so strongly that they’re sometimes referred to as a ‘hyperlocal’ social network.
Local business owners can create pages for their businesses to publish on the site, putting out news alerts, promotions, and other information to interact with people in their local communities. Like, for example, our Clearwater page on Nextdoor.
About the Nextdoor Neighborhood Faves Annual Awards Program
As part of Nextdoor’s ongoing commitment to help neighbors find the best services in their area, they hold an annual awards program called Nextdoor Neighborhood Faves. Under the program, neighbors ‘vote’ for businesses to list as Neighborhood Faves by Fave-ing, recommending, and making @mentions of a business in their neighborhood on the Nextdoor app.
Karoly Windows earned the “Neighborhood Fave” award in the ‘Services’ category. Winners get a badge on their business page profile, just below their profile overview.
One interesting quirk of the contest is that separate locations of a business are tracked separately. So, if you’re a fan of Karoly Windows, be sure to Fave, Recommend, and @mention both our Tampa page and our Clearwater page for next year’s contest!
Here’s a quote from Nirav Tolia, the CEO of Nextdoor:
“Local businesses are the cornerstone of our communities, and the Neighborhood Faves awards are our way of celebrating the establishments that neighbors love most… We are proud to recognize this year’s winners for their outstanding contributions. Being a Neighborhood Fave is a powerful testament to the meaningful impact they have on their communities every day.”
How Karoly Windows Earned the Nextdoor Neighborhood Fave Award
So, how did Karoly manage to earn the Neighborhood Fave award for the third time? Mostly by working assiduously (i.e., really, really hard and consistently) to do every window installation the right way, every time.
Here are some of the ways that we ensure every installation is done the right way:
Using 100% In-House Installation Experts
Unlike some companies that sell windows and outsource the actual installation work to unlicensed third party subcontractors, Karoly Windows uses professional, in-house experts to handle each installation we perform.
Using 100% in-house installers is one of the biggest things that sets us apart from other window installation companies in Florida. Where some companies pursue sheer scale, outsourcing the installation work to every subcontractor that can hold a hammer (and sometimes, we’re called in to replace work that makes us question if they even were able to do that much right), we strive to do the job the right way so that you can enjoy your new windows for decades to come.
Unlike a subcontractor who isn’t part of the company you entered into an agreement with, our installers are members of the Karoly Team, held to the Karoly Way of doing things. This is how we ensure accountability and consistency for every installation we perform.
Our installers are trained to understand the Florida Building Code (FBC) requirements for installing impact windows and doors in Pinellas, Hillsborough, and Pasco. They know the right tools and techniques to use in every window installation situation so they can produce top-quality work.
Partnering with Industry-Leading Manufacturers
Some window installation companies are little more than glorified outlet stores for a single (often substandard) window manufacturer. They’re limited to working with a single window brand or, in extreme cases, a single product line of a single brand. This limits their selection and ability to find you the best windows for your needs.
Karoly Windows & Doors works with industry-leading impact window manufacturers like Simonton and PGT to source custom windows and offer a broader variety of products to fit your unique preferences and needs.
Because we aren’t beholden to a single company, we can get competitive pricing on custom-made windows and doors for our customers and offer a broader range of finishes and styles to suit different tastes.
And we specifically use custom-made windows for our customers to ensure that every last detail of their new windows are tailored to their goals rather than being stuck with whatever windows were in stock at a retailer’s warehouse regardless of if they have the right energy efficiency features, hardware, and finishes to meet the customer’s needs.
Providing Accurate, Up-Front Price Quotes
When we provide a quote for service, we strive for maximum accuracy and transparency. Each of our price quotes outlines what your cost for windows, installation labor, and other related expenses will be so that you aren’t hit with ‘surprise’ charges when it comes time to pay for your new windows.
A common problem with some window sellers is that they forget to account for all of the expenses associated with window installation, even ones that should be obvious to anyone with experience in the industry. Their quotes might not properly itemize your expenses, leading to you getting surprise charges for things they ‘forgot’ to account for later.
We’re so confident that we’ll have the best price for window installation work that we have a Price Match Guarantee. If you find the same windows with installation for less from another reputable window installation company, we’ll match their price while still providing better service quality!
If we can’t match the price, we’ll let you know why it’s unrealistic so that you don’t get blindsided with bait-and-switch pricing tactics.
Working to Make Things Right
Even the best window installation companies might have something slip through the cracks. We’ve installed more than 120,000 windows over the past 25 years, so even with a 0.1% error/defect rate, that would still be 120 windows with some kind of issue that needs fixing.
This is why we established a policy of making things right, going so far as to codify it into our Platinum Standard Lifetime Guarantee to protect those customers who run into edge cases where something goes wrong during their installation.
We guarantee the labor for every window installation for 25 years and the materials for 50 years. If there’s ever an issue with your window install, we’ll work with you to make it right. It’s not something that happens often, but if something does happen, you can rest easy knowing that we’ll take care of it for you.
What Does Being a Nextdoor Neighborhood Fave Mean to Us?
Everyone on the Karoly Windows team is honored that our customers faved, recommended, and mentioned us enough on Nextdoor to earn our company the coveted title of “Neighborhood Fave” for a third time. It’s a confirmation to us that doing things the Karoly Way really resonates with our customers and that it makes them satisfied with the work we do.
It also tells us that we need to keep earning your recommendations and trust to keep earning the title for years to come. We need to keep doing things the right way, working with our customers to provide them with the best windows and doors for their homes, and making sure our community sees real improvement with every window and door we install.
If you’d like to get some first-hand experience with getting new windows and doors from a reliable, award-winning installation team, reach out to Karoly Windows & Doors today to get started!
