Shop/Apartment Setup

I'm interested in learning effective techniques in operating a shop and/or apartment. This would include vendor access to shop front, apartment access. Object control; number of objects, possible placement controls. Prim allotment, rental rates, etc. Any assistance with this would be appreciated whether it would be via a website or a forum post. I have reviewed most of the forum where this kind of information may be located but have not been successful in locating it.

Thanks!

I have seen scripts that allow tenants to pay rent when it is due. Scripts can allow doors to open for certain people. Im not a scripter, you might inquire about your exact scripting needs in the scripting forums. you can also get some good scripting help here, http://www.badgeometry.com/wiki/HomePage

I have not seen a script that will count total prims in an area, but it may be possible. When I had an apartment, I manually counted prims that were being used on occasion. You could section off plots of land and it would be easy to monitor prim use via land details.

Rent should be what the market will bear, usually heavily dependant on the total number of prims the tenant can use, location and sales space, etc are also factors.

Search for apartments in world and do some research. I know this is not a lot of help, but I hope it helps you some. Be patient, others probably have some ideas to help you out too.

Check my profile the next time you're online, Kyoji; also, check out my Alabaster Apartments complex in Mesede... and then throw me an IM if you're interested. I'd like to be a go-to guy for creating apartments that 'work' and whatnot. I don't have many products to offer SL other than that.

I started to run an apartment complex for a short while, and just like real life you need to think about all the requirements, and whether the time and maybe L$ to automate them offsets the manual work that would have to be done. If you can write a sensor script in the middle of each room that automatically counts prims and reports offenders to you, that would be awesome. If you are going to have to pay someone $500 to write this for you, maybe it's not worth it. Same goes for automatic rent collection, etc.

One of the really nice and simple things to have though is security doors for tenants. This will NOT (I repeat, NOT) prevent malicious people from getting inside an apartment, but it does make things a little bit nicer for both tracking tenants and giving them added features. Make one of the walls, or a door to the apartment have a script with a hard-coded key for the current resident, and if the key of who's clicking matches the hard-coded key then the wall/door becomes phantom and transparent. Click again and it becomes solid and has a texture of blinds, or a closed door, etc. When a new person moves in you just update the script with the new tenant UUID and you're done, the entire thing is about 25 lines.