Idea: Rentable Linden Homes?
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SarahKB7 Koskinen
Have Linden Lab considered allowing all Residents the option of renting a Linden Homes house?
Why are Linden Homes restricted to only Plus, Premium or Premium Plus subscription account holders? Why not allow Basic account holders to rent them as well?
Rentable Linden Homes could increase Bellisseria's population and profitibility, filling the empty homes left vacant from the "Games Of Homes" Residents who migrate whenever a "shiny new" Linden Homes theme appears.
Theoretically, the Linden Homes House Controllers could be adapted to behave like rentable CasperLet boxes and issue the Bellisseria Land group (temporarily) necessary for the renter to furnish their rented home for the duration of their rental period.
Rental periods could be as short as a week, or longer, depending on how much rent has been paid. This would also allow interested Residents who wish to trial a home or theme for a short period before committing to Plus, Premium or Premium Plus account subscriptions.
House Controller boxes acting as CasperLet payment boxes could display rental time remaining, issue warnings about "Eviction Day" looming and also trigger a mechanism to return all Resident-owned objects rezzed in a Linden Home parcel to be auto-returned to their owners and remove the ex-renter from the Bellisseria land group.
My other idea about displaying rentable parcels on the World Map (see: https://feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requests/p/create-land-for-rent-filter-option-for-world-map ) would greatly assist Residents searching for a Linden Home to rent too and should be considered to benefit this Rentable Linden Home idea and concept.
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Oatmeal Linden
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Hello Sarah! The Linden Homes are intended to benefit paid members of Second Life. You may upgrade your account on the website here: https://accounts.secondlife.com/change_membership/ even if it is only for one month, to try it out. :-)
If you prefer not to own mainland, there are plenty of rental options being offered by your fellow residents, and many choose to use the CasperLet system for their properties. You may find for rent listings via Search or in the Forums.
Resident architects have plenty of home styles available inworld and on the Marketplace to use for your land.
SarahKB7 Koskinen
Oatmeal Linden Why does a person need to have a paid membership of SL to temporarily rent a Linden Home for a week or a month? That's the point of this Request.
The question is basically, why can't any person (Basic, Plus, Premium or Premium Plus) just walk up to a vacant home and rent it for a time, rather than letting the house remain empty and unprofitable? Bellesseria would have a higher population if that were the current policy.
I don't think you read or understood this Request properly. By the way, it was another "Land Linden" (no names) who urged me to write this feature Request after I briefly discussed this idea with him and he said it was a "good idea"...!
Stellaa Starlight
SarahKB7 Koskinen You are asking something that'd require them to redo their entire system and sadly they don't have time or resources to make that happen IMO. We've had many ask for them to make the linden homes so that residents could go and just pick the home if it was Linden Home instead of doing rolls. That also will likely never happen due to lack of time and resources. I know you asked a Oatmeal and not me but just putting my guess. :)
Stellaa Starlight
Not a fan of this at all.
Xia Xevious
No way.
Snowlord Resident
Nope. not a fan of the idea at all and I have no doubt this feedback will be promptly closed. As it stands a premium accounts can easily try a linden home via the standard method for a month, week, or even a couple days and if it doesn't work out for them abandoned it and move on be it mainland or forgo any holdings be it LL homes or otherwise.