Hello, my first suggestion would be to update you OP with contact information and terms you've come up with for trades, regardless of whether or not you end up starting a new thread in the Lending Section.
I also feel that any thread you start of an escrow/lending nature should NOT be self moderated. To me deleting posts, good, bad or indifferent hints of trying to hide something.
Well, i will not be the one personally doing trades but i have built a platform for that, to handle escrow, it is totally automatic and all i will do is maintaining, trying to integrate smart contracts, and adding multi-sig along the way, any idea on how to make multi-sig easier for users?
There *was* a website four or five years ago that had a fully automated escrow service (yes, two of three or similar I believe)... It worked exactly as the author said it would, so a scammer set a trader up locking considerable funds in such a break-proof escrow. The scammer revealed they had no intention of going through with the deal, so the funds are still locked away, the web author refunded the scammed person (out of their own pocket) and the website got taken down.
I would recommend exercising caution in setting up such a website without limiting the exposure by either party to such a scam.