Split The House Buying, Renting & Selling Forum Please!

franklee

strawberries1 wrote: »

Franklee is the debate house price board still on mse? I cant find it.

Yes but you have to be logged in to see it.

franklee

marleyboy wrote: »

Not particularly true, there have been a few historical pleas for changes to the forum that MSE has agreed was worthy. But you would have to have been on the forums for a few Years before knowing which changes have been made.

Like splitting the craft forum off into a sub forum which killed what was a lively and interesting area. Hardly any posts now compared to what it used to be and the huge and previously popular cardmaking thread tailed right off. IMO being in a low traffic subforum decimates that community

franklee

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

People like busy boards that buzz along. They don't like to log on and see the last post was 12 hours ago. They don't want to post a question and have no responses all day.

This is the way boards die. People look elsewhere for busier boards.

Exactly that. I've seen it happen many times before on other websites as well as other areas of MSE where IMO other parts of the forum have already been split too much It's not worth visiting every day if there is only a half page of new posts and a smattering of responses.

franklee

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

Exactly, franklee. I've seen it too.

Even if you think you're not specifically interested in a particular subject, a post might catch your eye and you respond. You probably wouldn't even have visited that board otherwise.

It's just like going to the shops. You go in a shop for one particular thing and come out with two extra different things because you happened to see them on your way. Turnover for the shop has gone up and it helps it stay in business.

That's dead right. e.g. I've always liked card making but only started reading the card making thread when I went into the Christmas forum to look up something else. Now crafts are a subforum both it and it's parent Christmas forum are much quieter I keep forgetting to visit. So much extra crafting goes on at or for Christmas there was an overlap and that cross fertilisation of ideas is now absent

Back in this forum, I was only ever here to read about buying as a tenant waiting to buy. However as I know a fair bit about renting I often answered those questions if they caught my eye. I'm sure similar must be true for many of us here.

Besides where would this thread go if there was a split:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5145848
The OP is an accidental landlord, a tenant and wants to sell is rental property and buy in the location he is currently renting in the transactions depending on each other. He wants to know how to manage both tenancies to make his sale and purchase.

marleyboy

Have to admit unless I am specifically posting a thread, I hit the New Post tab. Making it entirely random as to what I see or post in.