Can we now have separate boards for 'House Buying and Selling' and 'House Renting' ??

maninthestreet

Now that 'Motoring' has been separated from 'Public Transport', isn't it time we had separate boards for 'House Buying and Selling' and 'House Renting' ??

G_M

And/or English Vs Scottish property forums?

Of course, there is regular overlap where a renter needs to give notice because they are a FTB and need help with both, and with the implications of one on the other....

Fire_Fox

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=50

We could have separate boards for
1. freehold
2. leasehold
3. tenants
4. landlording
5. buying
6. selling
7. England and Wales
8. Scotland and Ireland.

And then I would have to stop parroting "please run an advanced search, this issue has come up many times" and the powers that be would spend all their time moving threads from one board to another.

Richard_Webster

Certainly separate boards for Scotland and Northern Ireland would be a help as would separating renting from buying/selling but I am not sure separating buying from selling or freehold from leasehold is necessarily a good idea - the issues can end up getting interrelated and then you don't which board to look at.

MelaBella

Richard_Webster wrote: »

Certainly separate boards for Scotland and Northern Ireland would be a help as would separating renting from buying/selling but I am not sure separating buying from selling or freehold from leasehold is necessarily a good idea - the issues can end up getting interrelated and then you don't which board to look at.

Absolutely agree with Richard. I'm relatively new to this forum and i think renting and buying/selling should be seperated for sure as they are not interrelated, also Scotland and NI shoul be seperate as they have different set of laws. Sometimes people ask for advise and forget to specify the place and thats when it gets very confusing. I wouldnt do any furthe subdiviions, as the rest will be interrelated.

cramg

buying & selling board and a separate renting board - makes good sense.

kingstreet

Where's the "Accidental Landlord" stuff going?

A thread for the LTB remortgage and letting issues on one forum and a separate thread on the residential purchase on another?

SuzieSue

No, I don't think there is any need to sub-divide the board and it is easy to forget to look at the separate boards.

The DIY board has a Is This Quote Fair subdivision and I never remember to look at it but would read the threads if they were on the main board.

cwcw

There are separate boards for "House Buying, Selling & Renting" and "House Prices". If House Prices isn't part of buying and selling, I don't know what is. I would therefore suggest:

- setting up a separate "Property Renting" board and moving all renting related threads there
- renaming the current board to "Property Buying and Selling"
- merge the Debate House prices board into "Property Buying and Selling"

Note the use of the word property, since flats are covered as well as houses.

The "economy" element of the current House Prices board could be moved into a new board altogether, as it covers such a wide range of things, not just house prices, that it deserves to be a separate board completely.

franklee

Renting buying and selling are linked. Many people move between the two. Many people need to weigh up if they should rent or buy. Others if they should sell or let out. Many renters are waiting to buy watching the housing market and they answer renting questions in passing by to read about the market. I think to split the boards would dilute the quality of answers as people would read only one forum thus missing answering on the other. Anyone wanting to ask a question that straddles both will not know where to post and may end up posting on both again diluting the threads and leading to duplicated answers.

As we are now it is very simple to skim the thread titles and skip subjects a reader isn't interested in.

Fire_Fox

cwcw wrote: »

There are separate boards for "House Buying, Selling & Renting" and "House Prices". If House Prices isn't part of buying and selling, I don't know what is. I would therefore suggest:

- setting up a separate "Property Renting" board and moving all renting related threads there
- renaming the current board to "Property Buying and Selling"
- merge the Debate House prices board into "Property Buying and Selling"

Note the use of the word property, since flats are covered as well as houses.

The "economy" element of the current House Prices board could be moved into a new board altogether, as it covers such a wide range of things, not just house prices, that it deserves to be a separate board completely.

The 'Debate House Prices & The Economy' board is clearly labelled and used as a discussion board, this one is a fluffier advice/ suggestions/ signposting/ support board. The Debate board is hidden from newbies deliberately to stop trolling and reduce arguments but it's still quite dog-eat-dog.

And if you rename it property we'd be overrun with queries on commercial property, this is meant to be a domestic board AFAIK. Housing rather than houses, technically.