2013 HELP: Owning a home in Second Life

Owning a home in Second Life 

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Do you need a house?  Do you need land?  Read this first:

Landowner in Second Life. Summary 

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How people have homes in Second Life

• Rent
• Linden Home (premium membership)
• Buy a home, put it on your land
• Use a free home on your land
• Use a free home on a sandbox

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Rent

You need money:

How do you get Lindens in Second Life? Summary 
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Find: Search on terms like rent, rental, house

Cautions: Landlord may not keep paying for the land or may not treat you honestly

Actons: Start with a week's rent or less. Deal with established rental estates

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Established rental estates 

• Rental properties and related services in SL

Linden Home 

Newcomers may want land because they want a house and yard. If you have a premium membership, you can have those things along with the premium membership. See this webpage:

Linden Homes

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After I get a Linden home, can I change to another kind of Linden home?  Here is how:

• If there are things you own there (house and yard), take them into your inventory
• At your home, click on World, About Land, General tab, Abandon Land.
• Wait a few hours for the database to be updated
• You can then claim a new Linden Home in the same way you did with the first one.

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Buy a home, put it on your land

You need money: 

How do you get Lindens in Second Life? Summary 

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Find: Search on terms like. house, home.
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Use a free home on a sandbox
You can get free houses at various freebie places such as: Freebie Galaxy
Find sandboxes in the Destination Guide
You can't leave it there for more than a few hours, but that may be enough for you at the start.
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Prim limits 
People entering Second Life for the first time usually start with a plot of 512 square meters. That comes along with a premium membership.  That land will allow 117 prims.  So some of the common questions come from exceeding the prim limit, "Why can't I rez the bed I bought."
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Furniture

To shop for furniture, search on 
furniture

Classifieds and furniture will be the most productive sub-categories.

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