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Staralien

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  1. I can't seem to start a new thread, so crashing this one. Is there a way to make your titles longer? I am having a hard time having enough characters without abreviating and no spaces. If there is a way to make them longer, can someone please clue me in. Thank you so much!
  2. When I signed up, I joined with a screen name/email name and have regretted it ever since. I didn't know I would be stuck with that name forever as my user name. Not that I mind starlalien as I have used it for years, ever since I first got on the internet and wanted to protect my real identity. I was relieved and happy when I discovered I could set up a display name. I would not mind having a last name, but I would want it to go with my display name, not my user name and that is not likely. So last names mean little to me. If it is that important, just add one of your choosing to your display name. Problem solved. ;-) Being a Resident doesn't seem that big of a deal to me. Just means we are all related. :matte-motes-big-grin-squint: staralien aka Melody Star
  3. Hello all. I decided to re-visit this thread more than a year later to tell you how it all turned out. ;-) Plan A - I started out getting a 4096 parcel and put up an apartment building. Plan B - When that didn't rent, I tried remodeling and lowering prices. I got a newbie in an apartment I offered for free. Plan C - Then I added 8 sky boxes and cut the building down to the lobby, and two free newbie apartments and two floors of a furniture store since I now had made enough to try to sell. Plan D - I took down all but three skyboxes, and tore down the building. Then I built 9 apartments, three stories high, and reduced the rent to 40L and 100L for the sky boxes and furnished them. They started renting. They started filling up. SO then I built more for a total of about 30 apartments. Plan E - I aquired the 8192m plot next door, tunneled through the rental office to get to it and put in a bridge and built more apts, including 2 bedrooms at 70L Later aquired the 8192m plot behind that one. This one was harder to develop, and took several different plans. All of it recently got new builds as I got better at building and landscaping. I have added sky domes, and more sky boxes, and cottages and now it is an amazing village community with awesome tenants, some of which have been with me a year. My newbie I gave the apartment to more than a year ago, now rents several places from me. My rental rate stays between 80-95% full. There are times it is at 100%, but that never lasts long. People come and go, and many end up coming back. ;-) It is at its best right now, a beautiful place, low rent, and good tenants. Am I getting rich? Not hardly. But oh my has it been successful!! It has been and continues to be a lot of hard work. And has been worth every moment. As for my furniture store, Un-Needed Things, it is on another sim and doing well and I now have a lot of my stuff on the Maket Place. Now that my rental business is doing well, I intend to concentrate more on my furniture store to make it more successful. Not everyone can make money in SL and not everyone will be successful. But with dedication, stubborness, and a lot of hard work...and a little luck, you can have a successful business. And for me, a lot of it was about proving that I could, when some said I couldn't. ;-) Thanks for reading and thank you for all of SL community for helping to make SL an awesome world to be in!!
  4. I used to have a couple of free apartments for newbies, but only a few ever used them and they pretty much sat empty. After awhile, I did away with them. As other posters have said, it isn't profitable to offer free space, especially when you have to make teir...SOMEONE has to pay for it. The best you can do is find yoursepf a cheap apartment. But cheap means few prims. There are several places that offer cheap rent, but it can be hard to get into them as people tend to hang onto them. I have rental property and you can get an apartment for as little as 30L a week. You only get 5 prims with that, but it is furnished with a cuddle/color change living room and an adult color change bed and a bit of other decor.For a larger one with kitchen, and maybe even a bath, depending on location on the property, you pay 40L/10P. I just built a new building with only 10 apartments. My property manager calls them Deluxe, and they are nice! These are renting for 65L/10P fully furnished with an ocean view in each apartment. Here is the LM: Melody Star Paradise Village Village 1: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Family%20Bonded/37/186/22 Village 2: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Family%20Bonded/58/244/23 Village 3: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Family%20Bonded/136/238/22 Good luck to you!
  5. Re-starting isn't going to solve this issue. I don't think it is anything we can do as I have tried everything including different viewers. I think some accounts got messed up somehow. When I created the alt, I was able to do all the things I normally do, including TPing all over the place. So it isn't the viewer that is the problem. I am glad another ticket was submitted. Maybe with more than one person, they will finally "get" that it isn't just me, but affecting others as well, therefore a problem THEY need to fix.
  6. I am having the same sort of issues and have a trouble ticket in and nothing they tell me works. My friends don't load, my groups are blank, my avi is messed up, I can't write notecards, I can't chat with ANYONE, and I can't TP anywhere without being logged out. They told me to delete the temp files and cache file, uninstall all viewers on my machine, re-install, which I installed THEIR viewer and It fixed nothing. I keep telling them it is not my computer but something on their side causing this. I created another avi and got on and can do everything just fine. No problems at all. I am frantic as I own a rental business and not being able to do anything is not good. I also have land fees coming due and no way to get there to pay it. I sure hope they figure it out instead of giving me the run around I feel I am getting.
  7. Hello Jade, I don't have a URL for it, but if you do a search you should be able to find Piazza del Mare. It is a wonderful sim set up like a town. The owners are good people and always helpful and the pricing is reasonable. If you talk to them, they will most likely be willing to negotiate prims/price to suit your needs. There are a variety of shops there, including mine, which sells low prim furnture (finsihing pieces) and decor. I like that there are different types of shops, including a little bit of competiton for myself. There is even a magical shop there! It is worth checking out. If you have problems finding it, please feel free to IM me and I will be happy to help you. Good luck in this latest adventure of yours!
  8. I have rental property and though I would not infringe my beliefs or ethics on others, when it comes to stuff like this, it is my land , my rules and I don't care how much they are willing to pay, no amount of money can buy immoral behavior on my land. I don't care if it is legal or illegal...in my opinion, children, either real or virtual have no place in adult sexual play. Period. I have a rental document they get upon renting with rules, info, passcodes, etc; and one of my most important rules is no sexual role play with child avis. I will report, eject, ban in a heartbeat if there is even a hint of that stuff going on. I am really sad for you that money means more to you than morality. There are plenty of decent people in SL to rent to without having to rent to these types of people.
  9. Come check out Melody Star Paradise Village. There are three areas. Village 1 and 2 are mainly apartments, Village 3 has lofts and cottages. Cottages start at 99L a week. Lofts are 50L a week. The apartments in Village 1 and 2 are 40L a week for a one bedroom and 70L for a two bedroom. Many have baths as well. All are fully furnished. The grounds are beautifully landscaped, and right now, landscaped for winter. It is a wonderful community and what makes it so are the residents. You don't get a lot of extra prims with rents this low, but I believe you won't find anything quite like it any where in SL. Enjoy your visit, feel free to explore and enjoy the amenities and I hope you choose to make it your home! Melody Star
  10. I am on both sides of the fence on this one. It is annoying that I can't show anyone what I am working on if they are not premium, so have to take it to a regular sandbox to do so. On the other hand, this is a benefit I pay for and I like that the sandbox is not full of people getting in my way or someone griefing me when I am there to work. It would be nice if there was some sort of option that a guest could come ONLY if they had a TP sent to them and their access was limited, like they could only be there for so long and they would not be able to build. Maybe some sort of "watcher" like a robot or something that a member could click on if there was a problem with a guest. I don't know...just thinking. The Linden homes are not all that great, but the premium sandboxes to build are worth what I pay.
  11. Anything is possible in SL. I have had a rental property for a little more than a year and it took a good four months to get it off the ground, trying this and that. I offer quality over quantity. They get a very nice home and and a beautiful setting for among the most affordable prices in SL. They get few extra prims. My business has become very successful, but not much of a profit as my prices are low. I work really hard all the time. So if you want people to rent from you, you have to be willing to work hard, take care of any problems asap, offer a good product, experience, etc. If people feel like they are getting good value for their lindens, they can afford to pay your prices, and that their needs are met, then they will rent from you. The biggest hurdle is people finding out that your property even exists. It took me awhile to even get on the "map", but now my best adversting is word of mouth. Make people happy to be there, they will want to tell their friends. Of course no matter how hard you try, there are going to be those you can never make happy. It is a lot of work and a huge commitment. Once started, it is not easy to walk away from, so you need to be really sure you are commited to being a long term landlord. Sims close all the time, but for me, that just isn't an option. Not when people are counting on their home being there and some pay weeks and weeks in advance. If you go about it with a lalala attitude, you will never make it...I swear my avi has sweated blood! Smile. Good luck on you new venture.
  12. Personally, I don't see why it would be unethical. You sell/buy things at resale shops in RL, so why not sell things you don't need in SL? Asking for only half price is reasonable and fair. Asking full price or above, not THAT would be unethical.
  13. I remember watching it. It was the day after my eleventh birthday and it was amazing. I was in a small town in Oklahoma as my dad was still in Korea. My dad never beleived they went to the moon...but he didn't beleive in dinosaurs either cause the Bible never mentions them. Shakes head. I don't care if this dates me...I am better than ever and my life is the best! Star
  14. They may or may not be considered phrases, but I hate gestures. I really hate that silly laugh gesture that is overused everywhere, especially dance venues. I hate gestures so much, that it has become grounds for banning on my land. I think people overuse them and just can't think of anything intelligent to say, but feel the need to say something, and that is why I have come to hate them so much. :matte-motes-confused: Star
  15. Maybe I am missing something, but what is wrong with the sun and moon that is already in the sky? I see the sun rise and set...the moon rise, etc. I don't see the point of adding another...unless you are wanting more than one sun and moon in your world. As far as the moon goes, part of the changes for the moon to be realistic is adding all the phases of the moon as well. While you are at it, eclipses and such could be added too. Sounds like a monster scripting project, but what do I know? Pulling that off would be interesting and could be quite beautiful. :matte-motes-sunglasses-2: Star
  16. Have no idea why you are crashing, but have you considered using a different viewer? Some are better than others, so it may take trying a few before you find one your computer is happy with. Good Luck. Star PS: Could be a graphic card issue. When mine started dying, had all kind of trouble until my computer would not start windows at all. Installing a new graphic card, it booted rigth up into windows and no more problems. Knocks on wood.
  17. Thanks for replying and linking me to that thread. I hadn't seen the post. I think everyone having this problem should file a ticket as this seems to be wide spread. May br the only way to get it resolved.
  18. I have noticed the past few days that I can't trust my prim counts. One or two tenants will show crazy prim usuage in the About Land > Options Tab. If you click on the line for it to highlight the prims, it only highlights what they actually have or maybe even someone else's. Like 1 prim rather than the 657 prims the About Land is reporting. Some tenants seem to be sharing 1 prim that belongs to only one of them as it will highlight it for all. The rental boxes are doing the same thing, showing high numbers. One tenant IM'd me and said she didn't have anything at all rezzed. Is anyone else having this issue? Should I file a ticket? A lot of weird stuff been going on lately. I think they broke SL. :matte-motes-impatient:
  19. What you need to do is clear cache. This has happened to me before. I would hear sounds that no one else could. Clearing my cache solved the problem. This has happened twice now, and this was the fix for it both times. Star
  20. On the decription page for the product, there is a section you fill out for requiremnts. You have to check one of these for it to be correct, rather than the default. Looks sort of like this (it won't let me post it exactly how it looks with the things you click on): Usage Requirements: None Unpacking Land Wearable I think it is a fairly new feature as I don't remember it with the magic boxes. Good luck! Star
  21. I agree this is the best thread ever! Like watching a car crash...you know you should move along and get out of the way, but you can't help rubbernecking to catch all the details. I don't think anyone is going to convince this poor guy...I think he likes arguing too much and can't even consider admitting he could be mistaken. That video was priceless! I liked it s much I had to share it on FB, where I am sure I will offend many folks over there. Oh well. The movie...will have to watch it later as it is too long and I am sleepy...so please no one do aything to get this thread wiped out! Grin.
  22. I think going to school is a good idea. There are several to choose from and they have different pricing. If you are RPing a child, then it is a great way to meet people...plus you might learn something new attending classes. As for being afraid to create an adult avi because you don't want to get involved in sex...well just don't get involved in sex and stay away from sims that are all about sex. I am an adult and I have never had pixel sex. I know a lot of people that never have. There is so much more to SL and frankly, I wouldn't have the time for it anyway. Not having pixel sex has in no way diminished my SL experience. I know it is important to a lot of people...and that is their choice...but for me, sex just isn't an issue. Good Luck to you! Star
  23. I rent fully furnished apartments. You can get a 1 bedroom for 40L a week. They are furnished with color change animated furniture. They all have a color change fireplace, living room, dining and kitchen, and bedroom with an adult bed. They are beautifully decorated with book cases, china cabinets, wardrobes, texture change plants, some decorative objects, texture change painting, etc. I also have basic apartments (a few) that have a living room and bedroom for 30L a week. 2 bedrooms rent for 70L a week. I have a few even larger apartments that also have a bathroom for only 90L a week. You also get only 10 prims extra, but most people don't even use them. I don't need any building help, so you would have to pay rent, but you won't find a better deal I don't think. I am on my lap top, so can;t provide the LM here, but we are easy to find in search. Melody Star's & Kal's Paradise Village 1 or 2. We also have Melody Star's & Kal's Paradise Village 3 which is PG. There are town houses and single family at cheap prices too, and the second bedrooms are furnished for children. Seeing is believing...so come visit! Star
  24. You could file a trouble ticket. Or if you are not premium and paying teir to someone else, ask them to file it.
  25. Hi Katie. What sort of compensation are you looking for?
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