Yeah thanks, all these points are valid. Re Landlord (and house) refs: references have lots of pitfuls. Ideally even in a boom town, being able to ref you land

Yeah thanks, all these points are valid. Re Landlord (and house) refs: references have lots of pitfuls. Ideally even in a boom town, being able to ref you landlord could warn you off the repeatedly terrible ones. The real problem is authenticity, it may get abused heavily by everyone.(imagine a hydrid anarchical version of all the rating problems inherent in eBay and TripAdvisor). It seems a fair idea but difficult to implement. Would a simple message board based system be enough for a discerning reader? Any solutions for a system like this?