Offer to Sell Rental Business

Did anyone else get a notecard offering to sell you their rental bussness? It was made by an a newly created alt. It was for for over 300 tenants. It sounds really strange. I just declained the notecard and IMed them saying no. To me it sounded like a scam.

Whoa... that's a lot of residents...

...to be honest, I get people asking if I want to take over their estates all the time, and 90% of the time it's through an alt or something.

People occasionally tire of the business, though an estate with 300 residents on it should be making some very solid income. Well presuming that they aren't full of vacancies too, but you can move people around and cut back on empty space sometimes.

Any estate that big, you are prolly talking 10's of thousands of dollars worth of sale. Kinda a lot for a random notecard from an alt! This smells real fishy.

So it might be legitimate... but it feels like a scam. No way to really know until you know what estate it is, and talk to the owner.

He said it wasn't an estate, but some mainland and some estate land he rents.

I'd be suspicious of ANYONE who makes a "business" out of subletting estate land. It simply *can't* be competitive, because of the additional layer of ownership skimming off a percentage.

Mainland can be OK...but I would not pay a large premium for the "business", over and above the land value itself. Transfer of objects is problematical and difficult, especially with group-owned land. Tenants may or may not decide to stay with the new management.