Tripadviser-style website for rented properties?

QQQ

When someone rents a property it would be good to know what the previous tenants think about landlord, agent and the property. Is there a tripadviser-style website like this?

jozbo

great idea. if it exists, somebody please tell us about it.

let me take the chance to warn anyone off RD Properties in London, the worst landlords in history. they rented me a flat with cockroaches, that flooded, had a major fire, and serious damp that they occasionally painted over. they never returned my calls, witheld deposit and locally the boss of the company was known as an 'evil man', 'nobody knows what he looks like' etc etc

I like the allagents site for estate agent reviews. name n shame i say.

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Anyone setting up website like that would need only sit back and wait to be sued by various estate agents and landlords

pararct

Even Trip Advisor is getting a bad name in the Industry for all the fake (good reviews) being put up by hotel owners and the like. There was an article in the Mail :eek: a few days ago saying a consortium of hotels were trying to take them to court for clutch of negative reviews which they maintained were also false.

Their business model is flawed and out of date. It has already been overtaken by the likes of booking.com and lateroooms whom amongst quite a few others now send an email out inviting a guest to review a hotel AFTER they have stayed having made the booking and paid through their web portal.

The beauty of this system is the reviews good or bad can only be seen as authentic as these people have actually stayed at the place.

So as for a similar scheme in this industry unless it could be protected from the sort of abuse Trip Advisor suffers is not a good idea.

Jowo_2

I love reading the reviews in Trip Advisor and sites like Holiday uncovered and holiday watchdog.

Some people sound like they really just don't know how to enjoy themselves and get highly upset with the most trivial of things. I particularly like the ones shot through with Xenophobia. Many a time, I've cracked up at the attitudes displayed.

Some of the reviews for the same place are just so different, it's almost like the people have holidayed in different resorts, so they actually get to be somewhat unhelpful as there's no great consistency or consensus.

So I would love a tenancy review based on these holiday/hotel websites but only because of the inadvertent laughs it could offer.

tbs624

QQQ wrote: »

When someone rents a property it would be good to know what the previous tenants think about landlord, agent and the property. Is there a tripadviser-style website like this?

This was one of the suggestions inlcuded in the package of suggestions put forward by the previous Govt back in Feb 2010, after the Rugg review into the PRS.

The CML didn't like the idea. Such a scheme *would* be fraught with difficulties.

You can however go and have a look at Shelter's Evict a Rogue LL campaign - you can even upload your disrepair photos