Do You Prefer Living On Mainland or a Private/Homestead Sim

[LittleMe Jewell]

20 minutes ago, Virtualnsanity said:

If i click on world there is no >about land tab (confused) - i use firestorm phoenix

Ahh - I'll go check and report back, unless someone else manages to before me.  So many new folks use the LL viewer that I give those instructions first.  I use Firestorm, but haven't done this option in a long time.

ETA - World / Parcel Details (or just click the location name in the top bar) - a window should open with an Abandon option.

Edited October 13, 2017 by LittleMe Jewell

[Virtualnsanity]

Ok so to keep you all in the loop and prove you advice and assistance makes a difference ... i introduce my new home Thistle Doo!

[Kia Kiyori]

@Virtualnsanity Brilliant job for a 2 week old resident! So well done, V

[Benjamin Opel]

Mainland for me - private regions can go offline at any time if the individual/business ever go bust..

Pay more, but I'd rather have that confidence/security.

[Hintswen Guardian]

On 9/13/2017 at 10:55 PM, Rhonda Huntress said:

I still have my Linden home and I like living there.  It's not really mainland, tho.  More like a Linden owned estate.

I miss my Linden home. I actually met my neighbor once and a friend of mine was just down the road the next sim over!

[Janet Voxel]

I’m digging living on the mainland so far. Granted it’s a crappy piece of land that I had to figure out how to landscape, but my neighbors are quiet, I have more prims than I can use.

[Qa Boa]

Common topic.

I choose mainland and for this specific reason: I purchase the parcel and pay Linden Lab my land use fees. It costs less than renting and *I* am 100% in control, no one can tell me what I can or cannot do, no one can evict me, other than LL.

As for paying Land Use Fees: A lot of "landlords" like to proclaim, "But you can pay in L$!!!" - Well, so can I. I simply sell a few L$ for $ U.S. credit and ensure there is enough to pay the fee every month. Costs a LOT LESS L$ to do it that way than rent from any landlord. Oh, and *anyone* can buy land. Sure, to buy land for yourself you have to be a Premium subscriber. OR: you can create an alt, create a group of two, then shop for land and choose "Buy for Group" - all you need do is contribute the proper tier to the group.

So my group owns 2587 square meters (groups get a bonus) which is in the 2048 Tier, which is $15 a month. 4000L$ converts to $15.07 as I write this. So I am essentially paying L$4000 for 2048 M2 per MONTH. Know any landlords renting that much space for only L$1000 a week? 

Edit to add: As for any ugly crap floating around? Right-click, choose DERENDER. Done.

Edited November 22, 2017 by Qa Boa

[KanryDrago]

1 hour ago, Qa Boa said:

Common topic.

I choose mainland and for this specific reason: I purchase the parcel and pay Linden Lab my land use fees. It costs less than renting and *I* am 100% in control, no one can tell me what I can or cannot do, no one can evict me, other than LL.

As for paying Land Use Fees: A lot of "landlords" like to proclaim, "But you can pay in L$!!!" - Well, so can I. I simply sell a few L$ for $ U.S. credit and ensure there is enough to pay the fee every month. Costs a LOT LESS L$ to do it that way than rent from any landlord. Oh, and *anyone* can buy land. Sure, to buy land for yourself you have to be a Premium subscriber. OR: you can create an alt, create a group of two, then shop for land and choose "Buy for Group" - all you need do is contribute the proper tier to the group.

So my group owns 2587 square meters (groups get a bonus) which is in the 2048 Tier, which is $15 a month. 4000L$ converts to $15.07 as I write this. So I am essentially paying L$4000 for 2048 M2 per MONTH. Know any landlords renting that much space for only L$1000 a week? 

Edit to add: As for any ugly crap floating around? Right-click, choose DERENDER. Done.

My landlady rents me a 4096 for 1300 a week 1250 prims so to rent from her a 2048 parcel would cost me 650 a week. This is a private estate. And no not a special price

Edited November 22, 2017 by KanryDrago

[Hintswen Guardian]

3 hours ago, Qa Boa said:

Know any landlords renting that much space for only L$1000 a week?

Yes, me for L$900/week with 1406 prims.

[Penny Patton]

Food for thought, but you can drop the cost of mainland further by utilizing premium accounts and a land group.

For example, if you get a premium account on a yearly payment cycle, you pay about $72usd/yr, but you get L$300/week as a stipend. If you save the stipend up then cash it out at the end of the year, you can use it to pay about $61usd towards your annual Premium fee, leaving you paying only about $11/yr out of pocket after that first year.

Now, let's say you have three accounts, all Premium, all annual. Each has 512sq.m. of land which you can combine in a land group. Doing this gives you 10% more land tier for free so you end up with about 1690sq.m. of land tier costing you $2.75usd a month. Doubling that to 3379sq.m. only costs you $5.50/mo

Of course, if you do not have any premium accounts right now, setting some up is going to set you back a lot that first year, but you can also add more accounts (and thereby more land) over time. Start with one Premium, then a year later add a second, then wait a year to add a third. If you ask me, this is the biggest selling point of going Premium.

 

[Amanda Crisp]

I prefer either one that sees me left alone :-)  I can de-render and Skybox my way away from the visually unappealing; so as long as I don't have invasive neighbors, I'm happy.

I do have a funny story about the door-to-door, home-invading n00b evangelists from WAY back who wanted to know if my Partner and I were "lesbeans", one that was an entertaining little vignette about "right to privacy"......... but that's for another time :-)