How to request a sub-board on MSE?

Mind_the_Gap

I'd support the suggestion to subdivide, too!

rodent

Tenants & Landlords have a vast amounts of problems/issues with each other - without including property sales into the equation - (other than LL is selling prop i live in!)
I certainly think it is a good idea to subdivide.

Running_Horse

melancholly wrote: »

wasn't it because almost every thread on someone trying to sell or buy was hijacked into an arguement about excessive house prices causing the recession or something similar?! (i'm more than slightly paraphrasing, but it has kept the somewhat lively discussion away from requests for help/information)

It was because people with genuine house buying queries were constantly being told you must be mad to buy at this time, mostly by HPC invaders hoping to engineer a crash. Most people do not buy a house for capital gain or to make a profit, but buy because they need to, they can, or the time is right for them.

I agree this forum would benefit from a buy/rent split. For the few topics which straddle that boundary, most posters would be able to decide which forum was best for them. The main downside I can see is that some message boards can end up with too many quiet forums, but the sheer volume of traffic here should overcome that.

Running_Horse

rodent wrote: »

Tenants & Landlords have a vast amounts of problems/issues with each other - without including property sales into the equation - (other than LL is selling prop i live in!)
I certainly think it is a good idea to subdivide.

Where do you draw the line? Separate forums for tenants and landlords? Being a consumer site, we probably get more posts from the tenant side.

rodent

Running_Horse wrote: »

Where do you draw the line? Separate forums for tenants and landlords? Being a consumer site, we probably get more posts from the tenant side.

1.Buying/selling
2.Tenant/Landlord/Renting (Residential Letting)

More q/posts from T - I agree

It would be much easier to have a more defined sections for both parties - poeple asking for & those giving advice ...

What about a trial period ...see how it develops ???

...now getting down off my soap box

Running_Horse

rodent wrote: »

What about a trial period ...see how it develops ???

MSE tends to be well moderated with a light touch, but can also be a cumbersome beast, slow to adapt and change. I suspect you may be in for a long wait, but you can only ask the powers that be.

tbs624

rodent wrote: »

It would be much easier to have a more defined sections for both parties - poeple asking for & those giving advice ...

posters make suggestions and exchange opinions see Forum FAQs -" I want to give advice, why can't I? "

As other posters have said, the request to further split the HBR&S board has been made before but there are area overlaps in many posts. It's not that hard to follow the board: However, Richard's point about the Scottish/Eng & Wales legal differences (again, raised some time ago) makes the most sense to me.

gordonbennet

Very few questions encompass both buying/selling AND renting. Usually they're one orthe other. Those that do could choose which board to post on depending on the question.

Just take a look now (whenever you are reading this) at the number of people viewing this board compared to the other boards. Most of those have several sub-sections.

In a less crowded space I think you'd get more posting that was of direct relevance to you and more specialist knowledge being shared.

zara*elise

I would be totally in favour of subboards, leaving the main board for those who don't think their question fits either (or fits both!)

Doozergirl

I'm pretty sure it's been mooted before when they had a big shake up about a year ago of all the boards and asked people then. I think they like it fast and don't want to dilute it too much - there are hundreds of boards and it could just keep growing and growing.

I remember when we introduced 'renting' to the board name, when renters were homeless here(!) and when the militant economists were given their own thread. Now they have their own 'secret' board, thank goodness because this board got very, very confusing and became nigh on useless for a while. It might be nice to separate, but then when this is our board, it might feel like it should be divided, but in the greater MSE scheme, they sit together nicely. How many 'shall I rent or buy' or 'shall I let or sell' threads do we get? If you put a thread like that into either board or the other, I suspect you'd get a different consensus from each board, yet you shouldn't post the same question in two boards. Also long leasehold, where does that sit - the law is Landlord/Tenant Law but only really applies to owner occupiers. The idea of three boards is bonkers, btw.

I'm also worried that rather than attracting 'experts' you would dilute it. I do buying and selling, but I've learned an awful lot from this board on the renting side - because they are together - so sometimes when it's quiet, which it can be, and I know the answer, I will post. Or I will ask some more questions so that the people who really know have the right kind of info when they get to the thread. And I am sure there are people who do the same from the other side, who have value to add - I don't know if they would cross over both. I won't bother with the renting board, tbh.

I like it fast, I can see from the highlighting where I last left off and I can pick and choose by hovering over thread titles. If the board feels quiet, I can lose interest.