A FEW RULES MAKE FOR NICE VIEWS!

[Prokofy Neva]

Ravenglass Rentals, now in its 12th year of business, specializes in the Mainland.  On the Mainland, you have wonderful geographical continuity -- you can drive a car or ride a horse (see our stable in Athetis next to a beautiful bridal path) and you can have serendipity -- chance meetings and experiences that help you meet people and find interests instead of lagging out in a black box club where you can't even type to another person.

But if you want to have freedom, you need the rule of law so that other people don't take your freedom away from you. And that's what happens when someone with no rules puts up a huge purple tower in your view, a big flat board with photorealistic lawn on waterfront in your view, or puts out numerous spinning dance balls and particle gizmos that ruin your experience.

The worst thing is security orbs -- while they may create a barrier around you, they make life miserable for everyone else around you who is bounced around even near their home or teleported home abruptly just because they were looking at rentals.  Or they can't take a boat out on the water. So we don't allow security orbs on the ground because ban/eject is really sufficient - and you can always put in a sky box and turn on home security in the sky where it won't bother people.

So if you make a few rules -- such as no builds over two stories high, no spinning anything, no particle blasts - then everyone is free to enjoy the environment. After all, Mainland and private islands are about choice -- and you can't have choice if someone arbitrarily takes it away from you.

Rentals on the Mainland make best sense in groups -- and if you join our group you get all the powers you need -- ban/eject, deed media, plant, terraform, set home, turn off build and so on (my profile lists them).

If you have an OPEN group, there's a lot of things you don't have to worry about, i.e. the right to invite someone because anyone can join. This actually works best to give the maximum number of people flexibility to have their friends come over and be able to rez things at will, and with ban function in groups now, there is a minimum of misuse of open groups.

The whole point of grouping land is to make use of all the prims on the sim as you wish rather than limiting yourself to arbitrary server space division such as "117 prims". So all our communities with small parcels have $150/150 prims or $250/250 prims. Linden Homes gives you double prims but you can't change the house and the lot is small. Mainland rentals give  you more flexibility. You won't have to pay for the premium account.

But if you have a premium account, you can donate your 512 for the equivalent of $250 Lindens a week in rent.

Best of all, Ravenglass Rentals and related groups have a rental system where you can REFUND for a small fee -- unlike most rentals in SL.

So check out the starter home communities of Jubata, Tuliptree, Columbia and others for $1/prim -- $150/150 prims.

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