Whilst imposing 'rules' isn't what the forum is here for, these are aimed at being fair to everyone who uses the forum (but particularly John and Roger who pay for it to be available to us all) and to endeavour to ensure that any recommendations are genuine and not marketing for direct or indirect personal gain.

Advertising
The forum is not a vehicle for free advertising of services or goods.

No advertising of
  • * personal websites
    * email addresses
    * links to websites with which you are personally involved or gain commission from
    * advertising or other text/slogans
    * avatars advertising a villa
    * avatars advertising other websites

are allowed on the forum.

These will be removed if posted and persistent or blatant offenders may be locked out of further use of the forum.

Recommendations
If you wish to recommend a service which you have found useful to others on the forum, that's fine but please note that the Administrators and Moderators reserve the right to edit these at their discretion.

Non-home owners on OV sites
Please limit your profile signature to either your user name or your 'real' name (whichever you wish). No slogans, quotations, etc are allowed and should be removed if you already have them.

Home owners on OV sites
You may advertise a link to this only, together with your name as above.

To insert a link to your OV advert, go to your advert page, highlight the top address bar, right click and copy it. Go to your Profile and right click and copy it into your signature.

No slogans, quotations, etc are allowed and should be removed if you already have them.

Requesting a Rental
Please ensure that you do this via the enquiry system and not via the forum. You'll find the links to these on the top row of forum links (note that each website has different owners so, if you want the widest response or choice, then you need to make an enquiry at all the sites).

Home owners are not allowed to respond to enquiry requests via the forum - not only is this unfair to verified home owners who may not be using the forum but there is a possibility that you may receive an offer of a home that is not verified.