Is it poor form to use rented land to advertise your own rentals?

I've never done this myself as it seems a little crass to me to advertise a competing product in somelses rental area, but I have seen others doing this, and not in places designated as rental agencies. I guess if someone tried it on my land I would only go along with it if they did a reciprical deal of my rentals advertised on their land, particularly if you're not in the same marketing field. But this also then can be unfair if one of you is advertising heaps of plots while the other with high occupancey is advertising only a few.

I think that this is unethical under any circumstances - FL, SL, whatever. There are certain business practices that may not be illegal but certainly violate moral code. This is one of them - bad form.

If there is some kind of reciprocal agreement between the two owners then I have no argument with it.

But, I would consider it unethical to go rent a house or a lot from someone and then place signs advertising my own rentals, of the same nature, to that person's residents.

You would be amazed at how low people can go.

I can't even begin to tell you the number of times and ways people have tried to leverage the success of Caledon.

There was a guy who literally ported into a region opening with an avatar, stood under a bridge and chatspammed the incoming residents with cheesy skybox rental offers.

This makes me think the advertisements for, say, ABC programs which are sometimes broadcast on NBC. Obviously they are competitors. But obviously, NBC approved of their competitor advertising on the station. That's the key, If you allow it, it's okay. Doing it without prior permission is nothing but slimy.

I'd have thought it was up to the original land owner. When I was new I used a mall to advertise my rentals and the deal with the mall owner was land rentals or residential properties only, absolutely no shop space or rival malls.