Rental Info Needed

I am wanting to rent apartments on my 2048 sq m land. I rezzed a 5 floor tower and am about ready to go with it. But, what's the best way to allow my tenants to place their own furniture, use the freeview tv, etc?

Start a group, deed my land to it and have all the tenants join? If I do that, do I stand a chance of losing my land, at some point?

Or should I just turn off the auto-return on the land and keep an eye on the tenant's prim count manually?

I haven't yet figured out how to get the freeview tv's set up so that the tenants can see and control their own TV.

Thank you in advance for any advice you can provide.

Hi, yes, have them join your group. Make sure that they join at a membership level that can *not* buy and sell parcels. That solves that.

Turn on autoreturn for non-group members and tell the tenants to set things out only when they are active in your group (have the group tag on).

TV's work 'one per parcel' - what you would have to do, is not 'stack' the rented spaces vertically, but have horizontal subdivisions of your parcel. They can all be the same group, but say you divided it into 4 512m parcels, then you could have 4 tv's active.

The instructions for FreeView are available if you get one and follow the web link it provides for instructions, if I recall correctly.

It may not be that critical. In 14 sims and hundreds of residents, I've only had a few people who really used a tv that much anyway. Mainly they are here to socialise, create or do business.

Sounds like you're going to run into prim problems... unless you're allowing each tenant like 50 prims or something...

Thank you for your quick responses.

So yes, do deed my land to the group then? That seems kinda' scary!

Yes, I'm allotting 40 prims per unit to stay within my prim limits. I furnished the apartments and stayed under that, just have to use low prim furniture. I enjoyed the challenge of staying low prim.

So, if I don't deed my land to a group, I could still have tenants join the group, set the Freeview TVs to be used by the group, and turn my auto return off, and just keep an eye on the prims, too? But then that would mean that the group just gets the one channel on the TV, right? That's no biggie...

In all due respect, when one looks at how much land is available for rental right now, getting somewhere with a 40 prim limit doesn't sound very attractive. Yes, you can furnish an apartment for that, but it is a tight restriction.

Before you set your rent you might want to look around and compare what other renters are offering. If you are offereing yours very cheaply, then yes, you may well have a niche.

Good luck in your venture