Renting from Estate Owners

Is there a place where I can find a list of reputable estate owners?

I am looking to rent a Homestead for long term.

Any help is much appreciated.

You can find several threads in this forum where people have mentioned the names of trustworty estate owners...but there is no comprehensive "white list" that I know of.

The best way is to ask. Ask some of the owner's residents. Do a Google search on their avatar name. See if anyone has had a bad experience and posted it somewhere. Ask in your Groups, if you belong to any chatty ones.

Also, if an owner has been in business for two years or more, and/or has ten regions or more, it's an indication that they are in it for the long haul...and therefore their reputation for fair dealing is probably important to them.

(That's not to say, however, that you would not do well with someone who's just starting out, and has only one region.)

I am renting a plot from Wyldfire Walcott and can say without hesitation she is a good, reliable and honest estate owner. It also does not hurt that she is one of the cheaper places you will find.

I do not know how many full and homestead sims she has (50? 150?) or how many are open but you really should send her an IM in world.

Agreed, except her name is spelled Wildefire.

There are many. Ask this question at SLUniverse.com. Lots of estate owners over there.

Alliez Mysterio.

They are all reputable until they quit

True. Which is why it's best to find one who's been doing it a long time and has a lot of almost full estates. Wonder if Desmond still has a waiting list...

My landlady is wonderful! I've been with her for almost 2 years now and her name is Silent Watts. It's a small quaint community where you will definitely get personalized service. You can find her sims if you search for Silent's Folly and you can take a look at some pics of the area over here: http://silentsfolly.ning.com/photo/photo/slideshow

Tell her Josh sent you!

DOH!
/facepalm

Thanks Ray.

I do, but it's "picky stuff" ~ so I can literally have a few parcels open while there's a wait for high demand areas or specific things. People want homesteads, too, but I'm all booked and nobody's leaving any time soon, as far as I can see. Beyond those basics, anything detailed about what I do or don't have, prolly isn't appropriate for this forum.

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Regarding quitting... yeah, I suppose I could quit someday. Of course, that would mean giving up the income too... it's work, but there are a lot harder ways to make money in this economy. If business ever got really bad, I'd prolly cut back on regions a bit, but not quit.

Look at occupancy. Anyone with near 100% occupancy and a lot of standard regions is prolly making something like 100 to 150 USD per region. A dozen regions like that can be on the order of 20,000 USD annual income. Two dozen is 40,000. Would you just walk away from that?

Running off with tier reserves might net a sudden flash of income, but seriously, just hanging around and not screwing up is the waaaay better deal. Most residents I know are only paid up 2 or 3 weeks ahead. If even that.

Edit: I obviously have more than 2 or 3 weeks of tier reserve. But it's still not worth killing the biz over.

I would have killed to have 60% occupancy on my rental sim. Why did I have to go with that damned ubiquitous Tropical Paradise theme?

Beacuse, they actually do work very well

Relic Starbrook- I have owned 3 different parcels from him in the last 2 years. He has a variety of sims with land available. Very reputable and I have recommened him to many others.

I've rented from Relic, absolutely no complaints and a very nice setup.

We're normally full, except for the usual turnover one expects in the house/plot rental biz. What is turning us off though is having Homesteads rented from us and then dropped by the tenant after one or two weeks, usually because they haven't thought through what they would do with a full Homestead/don't like their current neighbours/mainland/got partnered and thought they'd try something new/didn't realise what the financial implications were long-term/whatever ...

Current pricing to the market of rental/lease Homesteads is usually 1L$, so there's no long-term commitment by the new tenant - which usually means they drop their sim just after tier has been paid ... sigh. Whilst we've kept in pace with pricing, we're starting to feel that we will simply drop empty sims and only take on new ones if the tenant is prepared to fund the upfront cost of a new one - at least then they have some financial commitment, if nothing else.

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Thank you for all the helpful posts.

I will do plenty of research.

This is a big commitment for me, so I want to make sure I rent from an estate owner that is going to be around for awhile.

Thank you all again