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Re:Ask HN: What would make your life better? by irremediable on Monday September 19, 2016 @07:43AM (#12530548)
Rental search that makes it easy to find a pet-friendly place. I live in London, UK, and although we have a few good property search engines (Nestoria, Zoopla, etc), none of them have a simple way to sort between pet-friendly and not.
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Re:Ask HN: What would make your life better? by J-dawg on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @06:17AM (#12538341)
On the subject of renting in London, something that disrupts letting agents, and/or facilitates renting directly to tenants.

They seem to be the worst kind of parasitic middlemen, and it seems to be in the interests of both landlord and tenant to get rid of them. But they remain stubbornly popular.

Failing that, our useless government could at least ban them from imposing exploitative "reference checking" fees.

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Re:Ask HN: What would make your life better? by samblr on Monday September 19, 2016 @06:49PM (#12535421)
I feel days of these rental portals are numbered - tech behind these are pre-Facebook days and they serve few million static pics!
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Re:Ask HN: What would make your life better? by J-dawg on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @04:36AM (#12538012)
What do you think they'll be replaced by?
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