Renting Land -- what does the transfer?

I've looked at the source code to some of the rental scripts that have been posted to the library -- thanks, those of you who did that! -- but haven't been able to answer the question that's been nagging me.

What actually does the transfer of property control?

Part of my problem is that I haven't rented or rented out any mainland land yet, so perhaps I don't really know how it works. However, my understanding is that if you rent mainland land, while you are in possession of it you can do anything you can do on land you own - change the land description, change the permissions and options, build, delete, terraform, etc. Is this correct?

If so, what in the scripts actually does the transfer from the landlord to the tenant? Perhaps I'm just obtuse, but I haven't been able to figure that out! I also haven't been able to figure out how one does that by trolling the lsl wiki.

Land rentals don't usually work that way, at least not the ones I've had experience with.

When you rent land the most I've seen a script do is invite you to the group that has the level of control that the owner wants you to have. You don't actually show as the owner of land when you rent, only when you buy.

This is how non-premium accounts like mine are able to have property we can setup a store on since we cannot buy or own land, but we can belong to the group that does.

Ah.... that would explain a lot.

Odd.

What if you're a landlord with a lot of rental properties? Do you create a lot of different groups, one for each rental property? Or do you create one group and hope that your tenants will play nice?

-Rob

Think it's kind of a mix really of both. I've seen people with posts about 'where did all of my prims go??' and they end up finding a skybox from a neighbor overlapping their property.

Also, when you create a group, you can create multiple "roles", so for example, you could have a group called "OurGroup Rentals", and create seperate roles, such as "OurGroup resident", "OurGroup Mall Renter", etc. Each role can define about a jillion features, ability to eject, post notices, edit ban/access lists, and many others, event estate level functions like rebooting the sim, and such can be set (if one has an island of course). Each member of the group can be put into one ore more of the separate roles created. Therefore if I rented residental land, and had vendors in the mall, I'd be in both roles, and be able to set the active title for that role.