To Group or Not to Group? That is the Question.

As I understand it, you can deed land to a group which can hold 10% more land than an individual and remain at the same tier. However, I have a good sized parcel (8740m) that I am already running my shop off of. I have alot of unused prims so I am going to open a rental residential building.

I have yet to find a good guide on land management so I don't quite understand the purpose of a group if I am the sole owner. Do I have top pay for two extra memberships just to form a group with 2 other alt's...... hardly seems worth it. Also, if I transfer the parcel to group ownership and put the tenants into the group, won't my individually owned items in my store keep getting returned? I could subdivide out the parcel with my shop, but I need some of the prims from the greater parcel. Can you there a way to share prims between contiguous parcels? What if one is owned by a group and the other is individually owned by the group manager? If I deed the objects in the store to the group, won't the tenants then get a portion of the proceeds?

This is very confusing. I want to return objects that don't belong on the land. I want to restrict objects to things I own and things owned by tenants. Maybe if I am a member of the group, then my objects won't be returned? Can't I just create a group for the purpose of being on the land without actually transferring ownership of the parcel?

I am sorry about all of the questions, but it just isn't explained anywhere I have found.

To a certain degree, I think you might be operating on old information. Here is a link that explains groups as they exist now, and is pretty thorough:

http://secondlife.com/app/help/new/groups.php

1. You now only need one other person to form a group.
2. Only those group members that are given a role that allows them to share group payments and liabilities will receive payments received by group objects, or sales of group land.
3. With group land, you could require all of your tenants to be a member of the group, but leave that group liabilities and payments tag off for their roles. Doing that, you can require them to tag (NOT deed, just tag) all of their placed objects to the group. You must also do that with your own objects. Then you can set autoreturn on your parcel to prevent unauthorized people from dropping objects.
4. Payments to any object will not go to the group unless the object is DEEDED to the group. Tagging it to the group does not cause this to happen.

The real advantage to group land is the ability to give others certain powers such as setting land access and bans and object placement in areas where object dropping is otherwise restricted. If you are not wanting to give this power to any others, you're probably better off not messing with it.

Prim rights cross over multiple parcels in the same region only if the owner is the same. So if one parcel is group and another parcel is not, they will not share prims.

Starbuck,

Thanks for the info and link, it explains alot. I am going to set up an alt av tonight and get a group going. !!!