Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 1:18pm
You are referring to our "property wanted" forum, where you can only reply if you are a property owner who is renting/selling their property. The reason for this is reduce scammers and con artists replying to people needing properties. It also ensures the properties being offered are licenced.
It's very simple: to be able to offer your property for short term rent you need a licence. What we were finding was before, members were replying to messages with offers of properties WITHOUT this licence, which is illegal. So therefore we made the decision to change the property wanted forums to only allow replies from members who have supplied us with the details of their property, including the licence number if it's a short term property. This also reduced the threat of any con artists and scammers.
If you see any posts asking for general advice rather than requesting a property then please report these and we will move this into the correct place so ALL members can reply.
and in reference to your complaint my links to properties are not helpful - would you rather me not try and help at all? Myself and Jan do this work in our spare time, we cannot read each and every post and try and do the best we can.