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| Home >> Tenant >> We Love Gumtree, too. But Not for finding a home to rent. |
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| We Love Gumtree, too. But Not for finding a home to rent. | |||||
| Here's Why . . . | |||||
| Gumtree was once a friendly, easy to use free classified advertising site dominated by honest amateur landlords and posters. It was started to serve the Aussie expat community in the UK. It became really successful and was the main destination for those looking for a place to rent. However with its success came the unsavoury elements of society, scammers, identity thieves, conmen etc as well as hard nosed and unscrupulous estate agents. The amateur fun side of the property section in Gumtree has long gone, It is now a mine field of conmen, fake landlords and estate agents . It is literally impossible to find a private landlord on Gumtree anymore. At Gumtree, you have to go online every day, almost every hour, to get the latest property listings. RentDirectUK.co.uk will email you the latest listings alert that matches your profile, instantly and automatically. Each Alert has a link to our website, so you can see any building pictures, interior photos, and street panoramas that we may have. That way, you'll have a record of all your new listings including the important details. On Gumtree, you have to go through a ton of estate agent ads and disguised as being advertised from direct from the landlord.. On RentDirectUK.co.uk, we keep the estate agents out. Period. All listings are 100% no estate agents - Guaranteed! RentDirectUK.co.uk is the UK’s specialist in the property rental marketplace. We are not just an electronic bulletin board. On Gumtree, estate agents keep reposting the same ads, over and over again. Talk about confusing and wasting your time! We don't. On RentDirectUK.co.uk, when you've viewed a listing, the listings says you viewed it. No more wasted effort. And we show you the date every listing was updated. Gumtree once used to be the place to find friendly private landlords now it is dominated by hard nosed estate agents. Gumtree listings: some have the information you need, most don't. Gumtree allows any poster to write whatever they want in the listing. That's why so many Gumtree users are shocked when they visit the properties advertised. RentDirectUK.co.uk has meaningful standards that must be met before we will list a property. We gather the information that we know you need to have, such as; location, tenancy type, landlord financial requirements, necessary paperwork for approval, building description, and of course, the property amenities. On Gumtree, you'll discover how many 'phantom' properties exist in London and the major UK cities. On RentDirectUK.co.uk every property listed is truly for rent. Guaranteed. Sure, it's nice having the fantasy that billions of properties are available out there, but you know the truth; it's a limited supply of good properties. So why waste your time chasing down phantom properties. Stick with real information on real apartments. Finally, A Word of Caution about Gumtree there are loads of fake landlords who are simply there to scam innocent members of the public. They will insist you wire money equivalent to a months rent deposit to secure the property even before you have met them. These fake landlords then disappear with your money never to be seen or heard off again. Gumtree has become a breeding ground for scammers and people that post fake adverts to try and steal your identity or money. |
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