Roomate How-to?

I have a house that I currently have restricted access allowed by name. If I take a roommate, what do I have to do to allow the roomate to allow people to access the property? Create a group, and give her authority to add people?

What setting should I put on the property to protect it from being altered?

Yes, create a group and assign your roommate a role with the permissions that you find appropriate. BTW, make sure your group has 2 or more members or it will be disbanded. You may use your alts as members if you have any. Once you've done this, you may want to deed your land to your group. Do some experiments until you feel comfortable with your setup, it takes some tweeking.

What would be the advantage of deeding the land to the group?

Deeding a land to group allows you to get 10 percent more Land without going up in Tier.
It allows your friends or group mates to add, ban residents. To allow only certain people to build, script, change music settings.
Yet there is also downside if you don't set your land contributions right, or you set permissions wrong.
Any of your officers can buy or sell the land, build,etc.
Also make sure you're on the access list, its quite embarrassing to be booted and banned from your own land.
Only give permissions to those you know or trust with certain things like selling and buying land.
For example after you deed land to your group make sure you go to your land tab and add the land group the amount of land you want in group. Reduce if you change the group land or you will be charged for it in the next billing period.
Having alt comes in handy if you want to make sure that if you're group or roommates leave the group and want to make sure you have 2 members.
I must admit at first I was bit intimidated by the group thing but now its a peice of cake.

I don't think I want to trust my 300L/week roomates not to sell my 50000L property - but I do want them to be able to bring their friends to visit. So, I am not going to deed the land to the group.

What seems like will work is to allow access to the land only to group members. Then I can let the roomies add and delete people from the group. Hopefully, I can make it so they can't delete me from the group.

Does this sound right?

You can deed land to the group, and have the group own the land. Your problem is in assigning group powers. You can have your roommate as a member, but not as an owner or officer, and give her the power to modify the access/ban lists.

If you are the group owner, no one, not even another owner, can delete you from the group. I suggest making a group and going over the Members/Roles section very very carefully and learning all the ins and outs of it before tossing land into the group and giving someone else permissions. This way, when you do deed the land and invite your friends or roomies, you can assign them the permissions you want. Always a good thing to be very educated about groups before using them and putting in valuable land. Also, like someone mentioned before, have an alt in the group with you so it doesnt get disbanded if your friend leaves the group. Having your land deeded to group can be valuable for what you are looking to do, good luck!

I think for now until you understand groups you just ask her which friends visit more often and you can them before hand or when you're there.

I couldn't agree more. Perhaps not surprisingly though, the Knowledge Base seems to be lacking this detailed info about Members/Roles. They tell you how to create a group for 100L but not much about the details of running it. Unless I am missing something there.

I'm one of those people that doesnt bother looking in the knowledge base save for a last resort, I never find anything in there lol. I spent a looot of time just poking around in the members/roles area of the group and learned best from that. One thing to make sure now to miss, the group liabilities box....it causes quite a stir

This started as a thread where I hoped somebody would tell me exactly how to set up the roomate thing, and now has evolved into a thread of trying to figure it out. Theoretically, people might search roomate, get to the end of the thread, and see how best to set this up.

I gave group access to the land, and I gave the roomies permission to add people to the group. While this seems to solve the base problem, it is a little ponderous. The roomies have to invite people into the group, they have to accept, then they have to kick them from the group. For what they are paying, it can be a little ponderous. If it works without difficulty, I may settle for this.

I gave the roomies the ability to control the land access, but it doesn't seem to work. I'm thinking that option may only work if the land is deeded to the group. I'm leery of doing that because of problems I have read about having to do with land deeded to a group.

Risking that level of hassle, just to save them a couple of clicks and get a bonus 10% of land for tier - it hardly seems worth it.