Is it possible to trade free land for comissions?

It takes quite a bit of land to support that many prims and it doesn't seem as if too many people would be paying that much tier for something they weren't using.

If your tower is unusually attractive and interesting it could be a nice attraction.

Another problem is this. When you are renting the land, do you want your build to be removed without warning, or do you want notice (a day, three days)?

I suspect there may be some confusion about why land for sale or rent is almost always vacant. It's not for want of things to put on it--or even ways to make money from it temporarily; it's to make the land as appealing as possible to buyers. And land buyers pretty much never want buildings--instead, they want a spot of land on which to build their own dream vision. The less interfering with that vision, the more likely a sale.

Except your pride and your neighbors. Seriously, that's tacky.

Here's another idea. I see lot's of land barons on second life but where are the venture capitalists that help start ups with the barrier of entry through the economies of scale of owning a whole region? Region land owners only pay $195 for 15,000 prims. That's $1.30 for 100 prims or around 360L.

Here's how this would work as I see it. Is there something that I'm missing that makes this not feasible?

-I sign up with a basic account and pay nothing to the Lindens.
-I build my business in the sandbox.
-I give you my business as no copy, no transfer. I set all proceed set to go to you and code in a way for the business to communicate to me how much it is making.
-You rez it on your land.
-I continue to improve the business and give you new copies until it is making you a profit.
-Once it is making enough to be profitable on my own land. I rent some land or purchase a premium account and go solo.
-You kick me out if I don't make a profit quickly enough or once I leave you are left with a copy of my business which makes you money and you didn't have to do any work to generate the income.

For the business, I proposed earlier in this thread, I would have to make $14.50 for my 1116 prims to be profitable for a region owner. That about $3943L. Obviously, this business model would be more feasible if my business used less prims. So I'm more just throwing the idea out there for my next business venture in which I will keep the prims down.

Wouldn't it be possible to borrow someone's unused land. I see lots of unused land that is not renting or selling. Let me borrow it. I just built a 27 story glass tower vertical maze (1116 prims) and I will put in on your land with a donation box. You get 30% of the proceeds and some added traffic. Kick me out as soon as your land sells or rents. You have nothing to loose.

-I rez my business there and set 50% of all proceeds to go to you with a cap of the standard rental rate for my land (about $4000L for me).

-I continue to improve and market my business until I am able to consistantly cover the rental costs. Then we switch to a standard rental agreement.

The landowner should get more out of it than s/he would get just by renting the land normally. Otherwise, you are the only one who could possibly benefit.

Remember that the land that I am using is unrented and therefor not making Elanthius any money. It it rents he kicks me out. Think of it as a way to squeeze more profits out of unused land. And if the businesses are successful then you may get yourself a perminant renter that you wouldn't of had otherwise.

Well, that is not how VCs work. They will give you some money, advise and support to get your business off the ground, in return they get to own part of your company.

They take a lot of risk on some of their investments and many don't succeed. They make a lot of money in the ones that do.

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