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Separate "Renting and Landlords" forum area?

johnno71
johnno71 Posts: 21 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
It struck me that this part of the forum deals with two somewhat distinct areas: "buying and selling" and "renting and landlord issues"

Of course there's some overlap, but would it be better to deal with them separately on the forum or do things work great as they are, no need to change?

Be interested in people's thoughts ...
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  • Catblue
    Catblue Posts: 872 Forumite
    What about tenants?
  • johnno71
    johnno71 Posts: 21 Forumite
    Catblue wrote: »
    What about tenants?

    I was thinking that tenants would be covered by the "Renting" part, but maybe "Tenants and Landlords" would be better?

    Or maybe a tenants area and a landlords area ... hang on, this is getting complicated! :eek:
  • Annisele
    Annisele Posts: 4,835 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I think that if the mods do decide to split the forum, it would be better split as "England & Wales", "Scotland" and "NI" than as "buying and selling" and "renting and landlord".

    Sometimes threads will go on for a few pages before somebody realises the OP is in Scotland and has been given advice based on English law.
  • Running_Horse
    Running_Horse Posts: 11,809 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Didn't we have this discussion very recently?

    Try searching this forum.

    The answer from the powers that be was no.
    Been away for a while.
  • soup
    soup Posts: 1,150 Forumite
    I'd like to see a LODGER section for all things lodger related.
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I feel there's a need for a special women-only forum for disabled tenants on periodic contracts.
  • incher
    incher Posts: 182 Forumite
    I am neither a landlord, tenant, buyer or seller at the moment. But I love reading about matters that affect all of the aforementioned :-)
  • westv
    westv Posts: 6,598 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I'd like to see a separate "Detached House" forum so people with detached houses have no need to mix with the hoi polloi.
  • johnno71
    johnno71 Posts: 21 Forumite
    Running_Horse wrote: »
    Didn't we have this discussion very recently?

    Try searching this forum.

    The answer from the powers that be was no.

    Do you remember what the rational for that was - in a nutshell?
  • tbs624
    tbs624 Posts: 10,816 Forumite
    Running_Horse wrote: »
    Didn't we have this discussion very recently?
    Similar discussions have been started several times
    Running_Horse wrote: »
    Try searching this forum.
    That seems to be the real problem - that people don't know how and when to use the Search function
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