Buy A Permanent House One Time Pay in basic membership?

[haziqt]

Hey, I know it's a silly question but can i buy a small house for permanent base? One Time pay? on basic membership?

[Monti Messmer]

Hi, the terms buy and rent in SL are a bit misleading.

You always rent land. Like in RL you own land but you have to pay yearly taxes for it.

Either you rent land from Lindens (mainland) or from a landlord (private regions) you have to pay a monthly fee.

If you would pay a private owner for a year or two and then this person decides to leave SL and abandon the land, your money would be lost.

Short answer: No.

Monti

[Klytyna]

Realistically, in SL, nobody owns land as we define that term in RL, except Linden Lab.

In SL "buying" mainland (if you are premium) simply means that a) your name is attached to it and you have parcel rights, and more importantly b) that you are identified to LL as the person who gets the monthly 'tier' bill, that is to say, pays the rent.

On non mainland "buying" land means a) name attached to land, parcel rights granted, and b) you get asked for rent by the Premium member who owns the region and who has estate powers.

There is and never has been and almost certainly never will be "one time payment land ownership" as we define such things in RL.
 

[Lindal Kidd]

Hi haziqt!

No, there is no way to buy land where you would pay only a one-time purchase fee.  This is because Second Life regions are all running on servers in huge, leased server farm facilities.  So when you "buy" land, what you are really doing is renting server space.  Because of this, there is always some sort of ongoing, monthly or weekly maintenance fee.  If you like, you can think of it as being like paying property taxes in the Real World.

There are many ways to pay this.  You can be a Premium member and have a Linden Home.  Then all you would pay is the $9.50 per month Premium dues (and you get other benefits besides, which makes this a worthwhile option to consider.  You can save a lot by paying for the full year in advance, $72.00).  If you are Premium and want a bigger place, you can buy a Mainland parcel and pay a monthly tier fee on it.  You can rent a place from another resident, or lease land from the owner of a Private Estate.

[egor16545]

Well, You CAN'T. To have one, You need Premium membership so you can get an land for PERMANENT. Also, you need linden dollars to buy one.

Edited July 16, 2017 by egor16545
Skipped some word so yea *dabs*