Thinking about living in Second Life - I suppose it can be overwhelming for new residents - all the options! Since I have been buying and selling real estate on the Mainland, I have been spending more time there and learning about it. Hey, more than 9 years in SL and still so much new to learn!

I visited the Mainland in my early days but found it jarring and unpleasant - and didn't go back for, well, 8 years! Now it is either a completely different place or has just grown and changed for the better. There are many protected areas where you can take the road for miles and miles or be on the river for many river miles! :-) Hop in your car or sailboat and freely cross many regions to enjoy a nice, long ride.

Why live on the Mainland? You can find any kind of parcel - snow, beach, roadside, mountaintop, flat prairie... just about anything. BUT terraforming rights are limited and you have no control over your neighbors. SO, it can be great - you find the perfect location, you like the land the way it is, and your neighbors are nice!  OR your neighbors are horrible or the land was cheap but you don't really like it on the ground at all - in this case you can live in a skybox and never see any of that. Some people prefer this. I prefer to be on the ground, to be able to see the view and walk around. It all depends on what you are looking for. (I sell Mainland - see my website for parcels!)

Why live on a private region? Most of the time, these are themed and controlled by someone who enforces the covenant. So, if you like the way it is, chances are it will STAY that way and you will continue to be happy there. Private regions also come in an infinite variety of settings and themes - beach, mountain, rivers and lakes, forests, fantasy, modern, role play, group-owned, etc. You may or may not have terraform rights, be sure to read any covenant carefully for details.

You can buy or rent - there are benefits to both. You may buy the land AND pay monthly tier to the landlord or to Linden Lab or the land may be free, but you pay monthly tier, or you buy the land and pay no monthly tier. Check details. To consider: If you buy, can you re-sell it? If you rent, what is the refund policy?  (Usually no refunds are given.) Note: You must have a Premium account to be able to BUY land on Mainland, but you can rent there from a landlord. IF you have a Premium account, you have an allowance for free tier for a 1024 square meter plot - this means you still have to buy the land but there is no monthly tier to Linden Lab.

Once you have your perfect land, you can landscape and decorate to your heart's content :-) But that is a whole 'nother story!

Skyspinner Soulstar
July 2018
http://www.skyspinnersoulstar.com/

a mainland water parcel

a private region area

Happy Springtime! I have been busy in SL with land management and working - and chatting with friends, of course! I got the bug for Mainland land and have acquired new property. It is such fun to landscape it! I am deciding what to do with a nice parcel that is a small peninsula with water on 3 sides - maybe a sweet shop? or a coffee shop?   Unlike some people who insist on putting up those ugly ban lines, I don't mind having a space to share with others. If you want privacy, there are always sky boxes, I say.

It's nearly the end of the year! Have you all enjoyed 2017? Lots of changes in my life, but all good :-)

Looking for contact information about me? Check out my website!

http://www.skyspinnersoulstar.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/SkyspinnerSoulstar

Greetings! I am dabbling in land ownership and rentals these days (aside from Alurel, which does have one plot available) and have been having fun landscaping beach parcels.
  

I have always enjoyed photography in Second Life - and recently entered some work to an exhibit on the theme of "Shores" all about beaches inworld and in real life too! As a follow-up, the Gallery owner posted about the exhibit on her blog - check it out! https://cesoirarts.com/2017/08/16/beaches-exhibit-artist-interviews-daze-landar-and-skyspinner-soulstar/

New video! Getting back to normal setup after some computer troubles. This video was made for the Second Life 12th Birthday Celebration - a video share project on "What Second Life Means to Me" that everyone is invited to contribute to. While hard to express what SL really "means" to me, I did share some of the things I like to do and some of the reasons I enjoy Second Life so much. Hope you enjoy!

https://youtu.be/30SQYmFwkAw

22 June 2015
Have been having computer drama for the past several weeks. Finally have word from Dell that they will replace my system (giving up on repairing the one I have) and it should be here within 10 days. Looking forward to that, because I can start working on videos again! Stay tuned.....