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Sly Spicoli
just playing life...
Join date: 6 Mar 2006
Posts: 93
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03-18-2007 20:47
From: ed44 Gupte I am renting just under 8 K sq m on a pi which costs me $L 4000/week, or just over $L 16K /month, or approx $us 60/month, but I am not paying premium ($us 6 to $us 9.95 depending on how it is paid). If I was on the mainland I would be paying $us40 a month for a similar parcel (up to 8 K sq m) plus the membership.
So for the cost of the difference, a tad over $us 15/month (allowing for no stipend), I live in a well managed sim where I can build and display my houses, allow for a terraforming sandbox, and suffer very little lag. My landlord assumes all risk for the pi, but we support him so he should be around for a while yet.
I still visit my old plot in euttum every once in a while to confirm and remind me how bad mainland living really was.
The worst that can happen is that I get kicked out and lose a week's rent. I equate mainland living to city living, and island living to country living. Both have thier pros and cons of course but I prefer the city life. Be brave, live strong. QUOTE=Raymond Figtree]At this moment, you can get a flat green mature 512sqm. mainland plot for just over L$5000. Any resident with a premium account who wants to own their "first land" need plunk down only US$18 to live the dream of SL land ownership. Tonight when all these sim auctions end you will be able to get new continent plots for even less. http://secondlife.com/auctions/So...are you buying? Upgrading to premium any time soon? Just wondering if this stategy to flood the market with sims is having any impact other than causing Mainland prices to drop.[/QUOTE] I would love to pay about $3000L for a 512m^2 anywhere. I don't think that's out of the realm of possibilty but time will tell. In the meantime, I'm just happy to be on the outside looking in on this one  |
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Sys Slade
Registered User
Join date: 15 Feb 2007
Posts: 626
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03-18-2007 20:58
Paid 8500 for my 512.
If you can ignore the casino in the next sim (3 plots away and we still hear all the shouting) it's a great area. Low lag and plenty of water.
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Ace Albion
Registered User
Join date: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 866
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03-19-2007 01:54
From: Ceera Murakami I won't pay even L$1 for 512 M2 until Linden Lab starts actually enforcing their own TOS and Comunity Standards on the mainland and starts actively enforcing actions against griefers and land extortionists there. (IE: The 16 M2 plots with rotating ad signs at extortion prices).
That's kind of ironic coming from someone in TRU given what I saw this morning. I also read on SC that the Lindens kindly tackled the landbot problem by releasing a bunch of "would have been first land" 512 parcels for 512L$ on open sale for the bots to harvest. I saw the comment here that it was actually true, too. Nice job, Lindens!
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Infrared Wind
Gridologist
Join date: 7 Jan 2007
Posts: 662
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03-19-2007 02:17
A week ago I paid $L12K for a 512 lot (my first) after spending a fair amount of time looking through what was available at that time.
The Land search in-world is not very useful. Mostly overrun by people selling tiered land.
So I discovered selecting "All" in search and typing "512" as the search term. Much better results!
I started going through the entries. They were ranging from $L5K on up. But decent ones were running more like $L8K. So I went out to look at some of these cheaper properties. Most were sandwiched between other structures, with either no view or dismal neighborhoods. Others listed at the low end were surrounded by For Sale spinning advertisements.
I finally found a lot that is almost perfect. Waterfront property. Small tidy houses on either side. Nice view. Protected Land, surrounded by Linden land. Next to huge bodies of other sailing areas in the north mainland (sailing is my main hobby). No convenant. No tier.
I figured, it's a lot of money, but it's what I want. Bought it and love it!
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- Infrared
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Gummi Richthofen
Fetish's Frasier Crane!
Join date: 3 Oct 2006
Posts: 605
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03-19-2007 05:36
I paid 12k yesterday for a 512, but that was for a holdout plot taking a chunk out of my nearly-square-now holdings (in Nadata). I now hold (much to my own surprise) about 8k sq. M, having started buying in December.
HOWEVER!
I haven't done a tenth of what I wanted to do with it or on it - including developing any kind of business or rental opportunity- because whenever I log in, all the places I tend to go (including my own land) run like a whipped three-legged dog. I estimate the amount of time I spend in SL has dropped to a fifth of what it was at the end of last year, and while I am in the fairly unusual position of being able to claim land and tier as a business expense (hey, if they can tax us on profit, we can claim cost back as loss, right?), I am deeply disappointed in the way that Linden design decisions benefit the racketeer and the slot-machine mentality, to the (apparently permanent) detriment of any other possible lifestyle on SL. I certainly wouldn't want to be a mainland landlord, and from visiting a few friends on various islands, it seems the situation is not much better there either.
I think the only way this is going to improve is for a massive decentralisation: I'd love for my island to be in my basement server room, so I get it at LAN speeds and the whole system looks more like a P2P system, but I have every confidence that this kind of solution won't come from Linden Labs: I've been watching for 6 months now and the pooch is pretty much screwed.
I expect in a couple more months to be selling everything and not coming back.
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Warda Kawabata
Amityville Horror
Join date: 4 Nov 2005
Posts: 1,300
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03-19-2007 06:18
It's worth it for me to keep on premium because I have a grandfathered stipend. But I see no incentive to increase my tier allowance beyond the basic 512 m it allows. And the only reason I hold mainland land at all is because I haven't yet gotten around to buying an island. Otherwise, I'd be flipping it.
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Rhys Goode
Registered User
Join date: 29 Jan 2007
Posts: 32
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03-19-2007 07:45
From: Sly Spicoli I equate mainland living to city living, and island living to country living. Both have thier pros and cons of course but I prefer the city life. Be brave, live strong.
Exactly!
I paid L$8000 last week for a 512 lot that adjoined one I already owned on an old, established mainland sim, and was quite satisfied.
I suppose I *could* have sold the other 2 lots I own in that sim, then found some cheap new land, and saved a few L$1000's, but I would have spent more hours doing it than it was worth to me. |
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Rockwell Ginsberg
Boss
Join date: 3 Oct 2006
Posts: 560
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Arbor Project
03-19-2007 07:55
If you have small plots of mainland that you're looking to rid yourself of, please consider donating them to the Arbor Project. They take spam plots and plant trees on them. Group admission is free, check them out!
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