[ronald]

Hello everybody,

I've had to edit a thread that was discussing problems that some people run into while using a specific estate agent. I realise that such discussions are very useful for other forum members but unfortunately we are forced to remove such claims whenever they are libelous for the estate agents in question.

However, this does not mean that you should not share this information amongst you. Simply that you cannot share it publicly on the forum.

So in the future I would suggest the following:

Imagine that Alice has a problem with estate agent Bob. Alice wants to warn others and let them learn from her mistakes.

Alice can post on the forum explaining what happened to her WITHOUT MENTIONING THE NAME OF THE ESTATE AGENT. Alice can describe what people should do to avoid such types of estate agents in the future.

Others can send a private message to Alice asking for further details. Alice can then have an e-mail conversation with others about Bob which, being a purely private affair, could take place with no problems.

Again, I need to repeat that while such discussions are important we cannot have serious claims against named estate agents on the forum because it may cause us problems. On the other hand, we do encourage you to share your experiences without naming names in public. After all what is really important is for people to have good guidelines on how to choose an agent rather than blacklist individual agents than can always pop back up under a different name.

Many thanks

Ronald