Maybe a Dumb Question - Setting HOME Location

On our island we have locations for rental homes but the land is not owned by the renter...

They want to set the location as HOME but SL won't allow them to unless the own the land otherwise it is the nearest mainland hub... Is this new. It seems like this was possible in the past.

Any input, obvious answers or work arounds would be appreciated!

Thanks

msw

Um usually when land doesn't allow you set home it has to do with either group
or land setting.
Some land groups don't allow their members to set home locations or create direct
landmarks.
Some Sims the owners have set the land for specific landmark coordinate and
you can't set it any where except that location much like how we use
to not be able to directly tp anywhere except to specific infohubs or locations
with a sim during the Beta years here on mainland.
I got no clue how islands work but I assume it is similar to mainland but
just more advance settings.
Have owner check group or land teleportion or set home settings or permissions.
Island can set certain individuals set land permissions without selling land or groups like groups do in mainland but not sure exactly how that works.

You can set home on a parcel of land you don't personally own *if* (1) it is group-owned land, (2) you are member of the group who owns it, and (3) the proper land setting is enabled so that group members can set home there.

Can you deed the land to group and make your tenants members of the group? I think that's what people usually do in this circumstance.

Set and deed the land so it's owned by a group, and then invite the renter to the land-owning group. You will have fine control over what the renter can do on the land through the group role mechanism.

If you make it group owned land, put the renters in the group, and give the Everyone role the ability to set home to group land, it should work.

There may be a setting somewhere in the About Land window that will allow anyone to set their home there, but I'm not sure if it works for non-group owned land.

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Editted to add: wow, I must have taken a long time to type a short answer.

One option is to form a rental group...and make the land group owned (group owned by the group you set up for your rentals), as each person rents a home..add them to a role within the group ( for example "resident"-make sure you dont give them any capabilities you dont want them to have- go through the tick lists verrrrrrry thoroughly) but give them the ability to *set land as home* or however its called (sorry not inworld to check the exact wording) You will be owner of the group and have the ruling hand on who can do what etc.

this is how weve done it for the last 16 months..works a treat

Thanks to all of you, that answers my question... I appreciate it : )

You don't need to make it group owned anymore. Qie might remember the Jira entry but when he pointed it out to me I tested it and it does indeed work now for non group owned land.

I maybe wrong, but I do believe it still has to be group owned, the issue was that this wasn't working all the time and in the past some had to deed the land to the group, which isn't particularly a good thing to do. So the JIRA was about making set to group allowing group members to set their home there. But this might be a different JIRA or I've got it wrong.

This is the Jira entry I'm talking about:

http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-404

When I checked the knowledgebase after Qie pointed out that this was fixed, the knowledgebase said you had to deed the land to make this work. However I tested it and it worked fine.

I don't know of a Jira entry that says it only works sometimes but then again trawling through the Jira is such a pain.