Renting!

Hello,
I am interested in renting a small apartment reasonably
Would anyone have some tips and where and how to get started? It would be very much appreciated.

Zayra

If I was a self serving person, i'd offer you land, however I have morals

Cristalle Karami rents apartments. She smells at times and annoys me but she is honourable,.

Second vote for looking up Cristalle Karami. She has good affordable places.

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There are a lot of places offering rentals. Just search around for them. Some places you have to talk to the owner and pay them directly and some have a rental box that you just pay.

Thank you!

Thanks for the reference. And thanks anyway Ciaran

And the honorable advice is: Scan the classifieds for a place that appeals to you, both on these forums and inworld.

There are also a number of good housing directories as well: Rental Central, Home Finders, Rental Advantage, and Lavanya Hartnell's directory are four that I know of and have used/currently use. Rental Central and Rental Advantage have the advantage of giving their advertisers enough prims to show off their openings via rental vendors, and not just an ad board. So you can see available units and their price/prims.

If you are on a strict budget, you are likely going to have to share space with others in an apartment building. This isn't terrible, as it is rare for one building to have all its tenants at home at the same time - this is because SL is such an international, diverse place and people play at all different kinds of hours.

If you want more privacy, you will need to look for separate houses/skyboxes on their own lot. If you want to put down a lot of fancy furniture, you need to look for an unfurnished place with a relatively high prim limit, at least 100, if not 200.

My most important piece of advice is to take your time. There are a lot of offerings, and a lot of decent landlords. Renting is a great way to start making your home in SL and offers a freedom that owning doesn't. And many times, you can get more bang for your buck from renting.

Good luck and have fun.

I have two sky cottages available at the moment (with their own sky garden!) that wont break the bank...no sharing...not close to others...fully furnished with full use of 2 large landscaped beaches with LOTS of beach toys etc etc...gimmeee a poke inwolrd, ill show you with no hard sell

I've rented in the past from Cristalle and I can say with absolute certainty that she does NOT smell.

B.

PS Oh, yeah, and her rates are really reasonable, too

Ok I'll give you that one, but she doesn't half wind me up But she's a good landlord, or landlady. I'd rent from her.

Also look for a landlord/lady who's been inworld for a while and be wary it they ask for lots of rent in advance. There really is stacks of land about at the moment, so you may be able to haggle a bit too.
I'd rent from Cristelle too, but she's actually my competition be it though I'm a much smaller fish in the rentals pond

Thanks Brann

I can also vouch for Cristalle (popular lady ) Her prices are great, and you get a lot for your money. she is helpful too.

Another place I have stayed in that I like a lot is Etopia. Pricier than Cristalle's, but gorgeous landscaping/views etc.

Thanks everyone for all the feedback and advice/tips - I appreciate it!

Avion Raymaker and Sarah Nerd are two other options. I would have sent this privately but you need to enable private messages in your user CP.

Yikes! I overlooked Sarah Nerd!

hi i just join yeasterday an i have no idea how to do anything
can you earn points to get things like in other places like meez .i want to know how to get a job and so on .if anyone can tell mre how to do thing so i can start hsaving fiun i like that .tha\nk you

In SL, there are no points to earn and no set goals other than the ones you set for yourself. Explore and try to meet people and ask them any of the questions you have about Second Life. And be patient, it takes a while to find your groove here.

I saved this link and list of places to visit but forgot to take the person's name who listed them. Teleport to some of these sims and start exploring:

http://npirl.blogspot.com/

Aside from there some of the original poster's fav places in no particular order:
Black Swan
*The Lost Gardens of Apollo*
Sector 13
My island (*smirks*)
Bettina Tizzy's Chakryn Forest (in her picks)
Lauks Nest
Tableau
Bliss Gardens (below - the islands are interesting)
Clock Island (although I hear its going to be torn down soon)
Hollywood sims ( great sailing islands - United Sailing Federation)
Volcanic Cave (not a sim BUT because Leben Schnabel' caves rock my socks and inspire me to no end)
Straylight
Devils Labyrinth (not a sim but a cool maze)
Intemptesta Nox
Port Caledon
Calleta
City of Lost Angels
CASTLE BLACKMOOR (and the surrounding areas)
Silk Waters
Secret Reflections
Vassar Island
Cave Rua Water Gardens
Lil Sturgis
Piren Bistrano (on map)
Saijo City

I would suggest taking the time to go through some of Torley's video tutorials found in the Second Life wiki section,
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_Tutorials

Very helpful if you want to learn the basics. Don't go through them all in one sitting, but do bookmark the link. Explore a little before trying to find a job, or buy land. Meet people, join some groups, etc.

Also, there's a Sticky for the newly born /327/2c/171147/1.html
which may help with some of your questions. It's kind of dated, but still full of info.

Since I am entirely self-serving, I'm going to suggest you check out my sims.