I posted 2 video tutorials on youtube today on Mesh, Physics and LI in SL. And getting that LI down.
I'm not sure I can post youtube links here for spamming, but my videochannel name is: elout01 or ask me inworld.
For a simple house and collision detection;, the lowest Landimpact I can get is using simple (1 sided) planes for the physics model and collision.