Why Rent????
When you buy land, regardless of mainland or island parcels, you have to pay a land management tier to either Linden Labs, or to the island owner. This fee is outlined in a number of places, and can set you back a few dollars a month for small parcels.
When you rent, you end up joining a land management group that pays for the tier. Instead of paying for the property AND a monthly tier, you only pay a single fee.
When you rent from us, most of the time, the cost of the rent will be UNDER the price of the tier you would have to pay! This is because we own a lot of land, and our cost of tier is lower. So it shares easily.
You can choose to be the only user on a parcel, or share a parcel with others.
Parcels sizes range from 512^2 meters up to around 14,000^2 meters. All parcels are mainland. Most have protected/roadway borders. We select carefully for fast sims, low lag, low object counts, and low running script counts. We monitor the sims at random times daily and track performance over time. If land no longer cuts it, we cut the land.
People have debated about that protected land for sometime, but for us, it provides a way of assuring builders that they wont get blocked in. You can spend two weeks working on your front porch and gardens without worry that the neighbor will toss up a 100 meter wall in front of it.
IM Anjin Meili for a current listing of lands we are renting.
Each parcel can be divided to smaller sizes if you want to manage your parcel edge to edge. Or you can share the space with other renters in the group. If you rent an entire parcel, you pay for the parcel based on its prim allotment for the ^2 meters desired. If you share a parcel, you pay based on the highest prim count used (a mean, not peak) during the rental period.
Builders, scripters, and helpful folks are available in the group to help you get started. We also maintain a large selection of free items in a database for renter use, including many exclusive to our group and created by other group members.
Our group always has multiple projects going all around Second Life, and we are always looking for talented folks to help out. Parcel rent is INCLUDED if you work on our projects.
Min rental period is 4 weeks, standard period is 12 weeks. If you prepay 12 weeks of rent, we give you 2 weeks of rent for free! If you pay thru a 12 week lease ontime weekly, we will bonus you 1 week of rent at the end of the period.
3 day grace period is allowed for late payments. We never destroy your property, and will lock down a property only if communications fails. Property contents is always recoverable from us.
Anjin Meili
The Trawler Group