So many 16 sq.m land - How to avoid it?

Hi,

I was talking to friend of mine online and he just bougth a large piece of property. Now he found out there are few tiny yellow dots on the map in his property by the road side. It end up being few 16 sq. m land parcels for sale right in front of his property. So if someone buy those and put signs, it will basically block the view to his property.

How does someone avoid being fooled into buying a large land that has these 16 sq.m or 32 sq.m land parcels that will be sold at a later time for ads? Can Linden help avoid situations like this? It will be rather difficult for someone to walk around to see if there are any smaller parcels within a large parcel (especially by the road side). Any ideas?

Did any other people fell into the same trap?

Thanks,
Homer

Welcome to the harsh reality of owning land on the mainland...

The only way to avoid this is to buy land on a private island that is zoned to prohibit such land abuse. The Lindens will do absolutely nothing to stop it on any of their mainland sims. Even if there are no 16M2 micro-parcels in your entire mainland sim when you buy your dream parcel, some idiot land terrorist can, and likely will, buy land later that rings your property like that, break it up into idioticly small pieces that are useless except for land extortion, and surround it with ugly signs at extortion land prices. And even if you pay their blackmail prices and buy them all, they will just use your money to buy more such parcels in your sim, and continue to extort money from the neighbors to buy back their view.

Homer

In the View menu check "Property Lines"; each separate parcel will have red lines around it. If you also check "Land Owners", all Land that is for sale will show up as orange - the rest will be red. You can see at a glance then whether you're buying an unbroken parcel.

One way of dealing with it, if you have the prims to spare, is to put up a structure ( a tree, tower, whatever...) that surrounds the offending eyesores. All you need to do is to make sure that the root prim is on your land and your unfriendly neighbourhood 16m-land parcel extortionist can do nothing about it. Don't gripe, fight back!

Yes, I have done what the last user suggested too. That works well.

Luckily I have a big of empty land around my house and garden (which all belong to me... all prims are meant for the house and the garden ), so nothing can get really close to me and if one does.... Ohh... a tree... a nice picture with a sunset .

Currently I am very lucky.... The person who owns the land of front of my house, made a big lake....... and placed a house way up in the air. I can now see the sea from my house...

Morwen.

Great idea. Yes I do have a lot of prims left to put up some neat forest around those 16 sq.m lots until they decide to get rid of to me.

Thank you for this. I didn't know that we can view in border mode. This will definitely help my future purchase of lands.

This is also a harsh reality of owning land in real life too, so you basically have to either accept that it will happen, put in the effort to check manually around the border of the parcel you're interested in, do what Ceera suggests and go to a zoned island or buy the parcels yourself. My advice, invest in buying a bigger parcal than you really need so you have a border. On my land, I put have a 20m moat around it, so open chat is private.

As a postscript to my earlier suggestion I would like to add that the famous 'giant prim set' is now free and available in full perms, making it an even easier option to cover up those offending spinners, billboards and such like. I will be adding them to my box of freebies (available in my stores... just look up the classified tab in my profile) when I get back online.