Your home in SL

1. What style home do you live in? Castle, Mansion, Modern or Theme

Beach house with a loft.

2. How big is it? Approximately in meters

I dunno - not huge but plenty big enough for me.

3. What size lot is it on?

1024 maybe. But I am not completely sure.

4. Would you buy a pre-furnished house (if you were looking)? Fully furnished, partially furnished or not furniture

No furniture. I wouldn't want someone else decorating *my* home. That is half of the fun. Or 99% of the fun, of finding a place.

What *might* be helpful - to buyers AND to you - is if you gave them a notecard of landmarks to furniture stores of various types. Not necessarily in the same style as their home. Some people like an eclectic mix of things. Maybe the stores on the note card could pay you one percent of sales for your 'advertising'. Just make sure the stuff is high quality so people feel/are *helped* not *pimped*.

5. What features do you consider important? Light switches, locking doors, on & off fireplaces, tinted windows - anything else?

It's gotta have tinted windows and some type of GOOD user friendly security system. Locking doors that work, definitely. The ability to ban or add friends to the land or house at least.

Fireplaces should be removable if you put them in. I don't care about those. I wouldn't want to waste the prims.

6. Would you rent pre-terraformed, pre-landscaped land with a pre-furnished house on it or would you prefer to do everything yourself piecemeal?

I don't care on a lot that small, you can't do much with it anyway. It isn't like I can make a mountain with tons of trees and put my house on top of that.

Pre furnished - NO.

Existing house - YES, and I think a good landlord or land lot sellers who puts those in will have a variety of other, low prim, housing options if they do not like the house already on their new land.

Give them the option to change things if they want, though.

HTH

1. What style home do you live in? Castle, Mansion, Modern or Theme
3 houses -- One a prefab cottage,a more modern beach house which I built, and a skybox.

2. How big is it? Approximately in meters
Not sure offhand, but both are relatively small, as SL houses go. I have never seen the need for a massive house in SL, and that's one thing I think is lacking: quality and variety in smaller homes.

3. What size lot is it on?
Full region.

4. Would you buy a pre-furnished house (if you were looking)?
Extremely unlikely. I am very picky about my SL furniture and even when I see stuff I like, I usually discover it is unacceptable because of silly-looking poses or visible poseballs.

5. What features do you consider important?
Doors that shut by themselves after an interval of time (a pet peeve of mine, since my garden cottage door doesn't and the noobs who wander by never learned to close doors!) Tinted windows would be important if I didn't have a skybox to change clothes in.

6. Would you rent pre-terraformed, pre-landscaped land with a pre-furnished house on it or would you prefer to do everything yourself piecemeal?
I can't imagine a circumstance in which I would want to rent a "pre-done" house. Most of the joy of having a home in SL is landscaping and furnishing it.

I am still looking for something I like. I'm currently trying to finish my own design. What I really want is a New England style cape or outer banks design, with three rooms (living room, bedroom, bathroom), and low enough prims to be comfortable on a 2048.

1. What style home do you live in? Castle, Mansion, Modern or Theme
Currently modern beach home...modded from a freebie.

2. How big is it? Approximately in meters
1200sqm (way too big for what I want!)

3. What size lot is it on?
2048sqm

4. Would you buy a pre-furnished house (if you were looking)? Fully furnished, partially furnished or not furniture
I'd shy away from pre-furnished. But if I am looking at permanently rezzed demos, I love it when the display home has been furnished.

5. What features do you consider important? Light switches, locking doors, on & off fireplaces, tinted windows - anything else?
I personally like one-way tinted windows (only tint on the outside). Other than that...it's the look and design of the house itself that I'm interested in.

6. Would you rent pre-terraformed, pre-landscaped land with a pre-furnished house on it or would you prefer to do everything yourself piecemeal?
Tough...I like to do things myself. But *if* the spot fit my idea, I'd jump on it.

Ooooh you don’t want to get involved in building prefabs, the money is terrible, the customers miserable the prims are old and dirty not to mention the 'window tax’, 'door insurance' plus you will have massive overheads like chimneys and ceilings to worry about.

I'd advise you go and make shoes. Everyone needs shoes. You could be a lovely cobbler.

1: savannah style mansion. (old english, american style with wooden exterior, instead of bricks)

Example of a RL savannah style building:


2: approx. 4 to 6K sqm footprint (excl. garden and exterior attachments)
3: half sim. (other half of the sim is used for other things)
4: no, we like to decorate it ourselves.
5: tinted windows, the rest is not that important, for the house alone.
6: no

LOL, Porky

Ashe

I like small places myself. I live on a BIG plot...I own a half sim, although I rent most of it out. On it, I have three "homes"... two of them are very small, just places to meet and chat with friends. One is even smaller, and very private...just a single room where I can go to be alone. I usually use it for changing outfits or sorting inventory, or just sitting and handling all the IMs. I built all of these homes (and everything else on the sim, except my yacht) myself.

They have tinting windows, locking doors, security (usually turned off) and working water features. The furniture is purchased, and the important pieces are scripted. I think animations are what give a home that "comfortable" touch and distinguish it from an SL bus terminal.

1. Modern
2. 30mx20m footprint
3. 16768 sqm
4. No
5. Fireplace, tinted windows, outside lighting, deck/patio
6. Definitely not...have too much fun doing it myself

]Revising my post from way earlier in this Thread since it's been revived.

Recently changed my California style beach house to much larger, modern Brennan home. Highly scripted; security, locking doors (currently only Ghosty and I can enter the house), window tinting, ability to change lighting, fireplace. Huge amount of wallspace to display artwork (this, was a new consideration for me and very important). Still have the enormous pier for dancing when I throw parties, out over the water.

O've completely changed nearly all the furniture in it, exchanging the sort of "tiki/beach" theme for a more streamlined modern feel, with some very interesting pop art and 50's inspired pieces which were lanquishing in my inventory. Also have changed the landscaping a bit, playing with the land, still need to do more terraforming as the backyard is very hilly and I need that to be smoothed out to I can add in some water features, however the house has a large side patio area so this isn't pressing.

I try to avoid things with poseballs if possible although the couch I was using in the old house didn't look right there so I'm in the market for a new one. I've even taken up poseballs laying around the land, having decided they are just an eyesore.

I have quite a bit of property still, 8192 square meters. I'm thinking about pestering my neighbor for his lot, since I never see him there.

I had a skybox as well, (2 actually) but took it down when I purchased this house since the prim count is rather high. I still have about 400 prims left and the house is done, for the most part so I may put a small skybox back up there, to house my photosphere.

I mentioned before that I work in design for a living. I can't imagine buying anything completed with furniture in it already. I need to go out and pick and choose. The landscaping, is a particular joy for me, as I'm into gardening in RL and I'm constantly adjusting this. I've probably spent more money on that aspect of the house, than anything else.

Haha, me too, Elora...I spend most of my time outdoors I do believe my inventory of landscaping, housing, funiture, etc... outcounts my shoes, hairs and clothes

Ashe

/wonders where the freebie landscaping blog is?

i had a big house when i first got my OS,around 577 prims,i saw a huge yacht i loved so we decided to get rid of the house and live on the yacht,it actually had more room than the house did,it was a 4 story yacht.
I gutted the yacht and made the insides very comfortable to live in.
Then i saw a much bigger yacht the other day,very elegant inside,i bought that one yesterday,rezzed it today and now it is our new home.