am i also suppose to get a free linden home with upgraded account

[valerie Inshan]

Yes. You can choose a home from your dashboard (yellow button "get your home now") from 4 different themes. It will be 512 sqm land with 117 prims.

Plus you will get a 300 Lindens weekly stipend every Tuesday and receive a 1000 L bonus 45 days after you go Premium.

And, you will be entitled for premium support such as live chat.

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Linden-Home-FAQ/ta-p/700101

[valerie Inshan]

Yes. You can choose a home from your dashboard (yellow button "get your home now") from 4 different themes. It will be 512 sqm land with 117 prims.

Plus you will get a 300 Lindens weekly stipend every Tuesday and receive a 1000 L bonus 45 days after you go Premium.

And, you will be entitled for premium support such as live chat.

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Linden-Home-FAQ/ta-p/700101

[Ceera Murakami]

The free Linden home is optional, and you have to explicitly request it. If you request the free home, you indicate the home type that you want from a list of curently available types, and they assign you a home of that type at a random location in a random sim offering that type of home. The parcel itself is free and also has no monthly maintenance fee beyond maintaining your Premium Membership dues in good standing. There are restrictiuons on what you can or can't do in a Linden Home, and they are not available to 16 and 17 year old Residents, since all Linden Homes sims are rated Mature.

If you don't choose the free home, you can still get free tier (no monthly maintenance fees) on a 512 M2 parcel of Mainland that you choose to purchase, in any Mainland sim that is NOT a Linden Homes sim. You pay whatever the current owner wants for the parcel, and you are not limited in size to 512 M2. Going that route allows you to own more than 512 M2 of land for your parcel, with you paying the tier only on the land area that exceeds the first 512 M2. Normal Mainland is only restricted based on the sim rating. 16 and 17 year old Residents can purchase Mainland parcels in G-rated sims only.

If you are 18 or over, you can also do both, having the free home in a Linden Homes sim, and elsewhere having other Mainland parcels in other sims. In that case, the free tier on 512 M2 of land applies to your total Mainland holdings, including the Linden home parcel.