Should "House Buying, Renting & Selling" forum stay as it is OR split into 2 - Buy/Sell and Renting

Retired_Mortgage_Adviser

Should "House Buying, Renting & Selling" forum stay as it is OR split into 2 - Buy/Sell and Renting

Firsttimebuyer26

There's loads of overlap, definitely should be under one umbrella.

Bakeoff

Isn't it all incredibly intertwined? I don't see how you could possibly separate them.

pinkteapot

Bakeoff said:

Isn't it all incredibly intertwined? I don't see how you could possibly separate them.

I don't think it is... Aren't most posts about either buying/selling, or renting? We generally get process questions and they're one or the other. 

diggingdude

There a debate houseprice board and mortgage board yet those posts often end up here so what is the point of splitting?

yksi

For people who are renting, there is a ridiculous amount of posts about mortgages, solicitors, land registry, etc etc etc which are completely irrelevent. For those trying to negotiate getting a mortgage, they see all the threads asking about whether a landlord can evict someone. I'd have thought it makes more sense for a "home owners and buyers board" and a "tenants board". This section a busy forum, and instead we have three subforums, one of which contains a lot of information that half the readers won't find relevant.

ThePants999

Don't forget, though - when people come here with a question, they don't browse through posts to see if it's already been answered. If we're lucky they search; if not, they just post. The fact that there are a bunch of other threads, 50% of which are totally unrelated to their question and 50% are mostly unrelated, is irrelevant.

Having renting and buying/selling questions together is only relevant to those of us who browse this forum to answer questions - and most of us are capable of answering both types of questions, so it's simplest to have them together, especially since some questions are related to both (e.g. moving).