Is anyone else out there concerned about how little information is shared to us by HL/TA?

I am a home owner. Have been on HL for ten years and as with all other comments on here, I saw a big change when TA took over

With HL, I would ask potential guests lots of questions about their party. For their comfort as well as my property protection.

With TA now, there is no direct contact allowed between guests and owners until the balance is paid.

I now have an email address for my next guest who is from France and I am able to ask her questions about her party. whilst she said on the booking the holiday was for 2, it now comes to light it's for 8!!

I have paid a lot of money for my property 300k. I find it difficult handing it over to strangers who I know nothing about.

Also, like another owner on here, I have 3 bookings over the summer whereas before I would be rammed. Thinking of moving somewhere else now.

asked by Diane P. on 6/3/17

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I also have been with HL for many years without issue.
This year however we have had no enquiries so I thought maybe our site was a bit jaded and was just trying to add new photos to freshen up the page. Adding the photos was tedious enough and when I had finished I asked hubby to do a search of the Holiday Lettings site as a potential customer. He couldn't even get the search box to accept the name of the town we are in and ended up wading through hundreds of properties from far and wide and still drew a blank. Once I waded in to try and assist it became clear that because of the way the search facility now works, you need to put the Department (we are in France) where the property is situated, in the search box and that brings up another search box where you can put in the town... if you haven't lost the will to live whilst trying to locate your town! If I were actually looking for a rental in my town I would have given up and gone elsewhere. How much time do we humans want to spend going round in cyber circles? Personally, none.

Hence no bookings. I would normally get 15 to 20 enquiries starting in August, for the forthcoming winter of which I would accept a minimum of 4. Didn't happen

I always had an email exchange with the renters before they committed with a deposit. There are a lot of questions that only the owner can help with.

I am now trapped in a (seemingly) futile attempt to find a way to delete the account.

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