It's a good concept and in line with the trend of rating and review websites for just about everything else.
But I see some major problems. - The LL or PM for a property may change and improve but the review won't. - Unreasonable expectations from tenants in their reviews. I checked out a couple of reviews and one was indignant at being charged for water (QLD).
I imagine it will take off because young people are social media addicted, love griping, and make up the biggest proportion of renters. LLs and agents have a similar database I believe.
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I imagine it will take off because young people are social media addicted, love griping, and make up the biggest proportion of renters. LLs and agents have a similar database I believe.
The problem for any website of this type will be how to resist/afford any legal backlash from aggrieved landlords, regardless of whether the fault actually lies with the landlord or tenant in any given instance.
Even if the site itself can be positioned clear of any liability for reporting potentially invalid/libellous complaints, what non-marginal business is going to pay for significant click-through or other marketing spend on the site???
The miserably low level of dispute instances logged by the site across the US to date, suggests that they've had trouble gaining traction accordingly.
A useful idea if it worked, but not something with an obvious revenue stream, nor a workable keep-out-the-loonies management model.
If one looks at the US-geography of the site, there are desperately few hits. I suspect the concept will die a quick commercial death.
If a website relies on non-targeted advertising then you need huge amounts of traffic to make it profitable. This sort of site will never have huge amounts of hits. It won't be a commercial success. I doubt that is the intention of the owner. More likely they're a bitter, twisted vagina who wants to see all LLs burn.
Put Pauk in charge - it will fail within a few weeks! He has form.
The Whole Truth
16 Sep 2015, 12:54 PM
I imagine it will take off because young people are social media addicted, love griping, and make up the biggest proportion of renters. LLs and agents have a similar database I believe.
Looks like just vendetta stuff site by some disgruntled former tenants to just whine about the injustice of it all.
There's good, bad and ugly tenants, yes it includes some L/L and I've seriously met some stupid PM who cannot assert themselves in from of the tenants bad generally have zilch home maintenances skills whatsoever ever. The majority of tenants do the right thing but there's some who can be difficult and a lot of drama can happen.
stubby
16 Sep 2015, 01:10 PM
The problem for any website of this type will be how to resist/afford any legal backlash from aggrieved landlords, regardless of whether the fault actually lies with the landlord or tenant in any given instance.
Even if the site itself can be positioned clear of any liability for reporting potentially invalid/libellous complaints, what non-marginal business is going to pay for significant click-through or other marketing spend on the site???
The miserably low level of dispute instances logged by the site across the US to date, suggests that they've had trouble gaining traction accordingly.
Who generally has the $. ? It's generally mostly the LL.
Easy to blame someone who perhaps can drive a luxury car ( those latest Mercedes Benz C250 has 9 airbags and will take about $70 k of your honey money) versus a transient renter who has an average shitty job and is angry at everyone and likes to kick the bedroom doors, because he got financially screwed by his ex wife and hates every female which includes the PM and the hubs has to attend every inspection because of his problems in anger management.
Newjerk? can you try harder than dig up another person's blog. My first promo was with Billabong and my name in English is modified with a T, am Perth born but also lived in Sydney to make my $$ It's Absolutely Fabulous if it includes brilliant locations, & high calibre tenants..what more does one want? Understand the power of the two "P"" or be financially challenged Even better when there is family who are property mad and one is born in some entitlements.....Understand that beautiful women are the exhibitionists we crave attention, whilst hot blooded men are the voyeurs ... A stunning woman can command and takes pleasure in being noticed. Seems not too many understand what it means to hold and own props and get threatened by those who do. Banks are considered to be law abiding and & rather boring places yeah not true . A bank balance sheet will show capital is dwarfed by their liabilities this means when a portions of loans is falling its problems for the bank.
If a website relies on non-targeted advertising then you need huge amounts of traffic to make it profitable. This sort of site will never have huge amounts of hits. It won't be a commercial success. I doubt that is the intention of the owner. More likely they're a bitter, twisted vagina who wants to see all LLs burn.
Put Pauk in charge - it will fail within a few weeks! He has form.
It will fail. I'm willing to bet a mars bar!
You do know I started and sold toowoomba.com to APN as well as registered and built the first APN newspaper websites, right?
It won't be a very useful website due to way people tend to communicate on such things. I had to remove a tenant once, and he blamed me for everything. If he'd looked after the place and paid the rent on time (like my other tenants) instead of being a total dickhead it would never have been an issue.
Perhaps the website needs a 'landlord's response' section, so the whole story can be heard.
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