Why do you lock up your houses?

This isn't attacking anyone, I'm just curious as to why people choose to lock their houses.

I personally love it when people check my place out. The only reasons I can think of for locking up a place is that you aren't done decorating it, or maybe that you had to deal with particularily stubborn/feisty players who did inappropriate things in your home.

So I'm asking, why do people choose to lock up their homes?

The only reason I'll ever lock my places up is because I'm not done decorating and I'd be embarrassed to let people see the unfinished messes. Otherwise everyone is always welcome.

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Originally Posted by Sashazor

The only reasons I can think of for locking up a place is that you aren't done decorating it, or maybe that you had to deal with particularly stubborn/feisty players who did inappropriate things in your home.

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Personally, I leave my house locked (it's locked by default) when I'm not done decorating it yet. You have no idea how much it pained me to have an unfinished FC house with people coming in and out of it after 4.1 launch, and we moved our FC house. It hurt. A lot. I cringed every time someone else was in the house. (It was great motivation to finish it quickly.)

I've known people who just didn't want to share their house with others, so they kept it locked. I've known others who wanted to be feisty themselves and not have people walk in on it, so feisty partners were tenants at the home so they could still come and go as they wanted, just not the rest of the world. Some of the 18+ RP FCs on my server lock their homes when they're not "open for business". I supposed if someone had their house set up as a shop, bar, inn, etc. it would make sense to lock it when the shop was closed.

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Originally Posted by PrincessAlice

The only reason I'll ever lock my places up is because I'm not done decorating and I'd be embarrassed to let people see the unfinished messes. Otherwise everyone is always welcome.

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This times like a million. I hate people seeing the mess that is me trying to figure out how I want things to look. Constantly moving stuff around, reworking my design plan. Oh, it's so awful sometimes!

side note: this text limit is killing me!!!!

I've only ever locked my house when I'm online and feeling particularly antisocial and just want to be left alone, lol

I only lock my house while decorating..or rping with friends, because ya know, you usually don't want random catboys sitting on your table while you rp. ;-;

For the simple fact i dont want you or anyone else to go inside. I hate RP and i would flip out to see people doing this crap in my house, regardless of what type of RP. This is just one example, but not the only one. Frankly i would like to lock out entire plot if i could so only people i personally approved can enter.

If one day SE move their a**es and bring housing UI to 21st century then i would immediately set 100 people w/o house on the list so they can use (almost) all bonuses in the house (e.g. crafting bonuses), in mean time i dont see any point to watch some strangers running around.

I tend to lock up my house cos if anyone is doing any ERP in my house it will be me and me alone. If you really want to know what the inside of my house looks like its posted on you tube

I usually only lock mine for if I'm redecorating, or if I go through periods of time where I log in and there are random people in my house just like hanging out or...doing other things. I actually walked in once on two people ERPing in /say and I was like "uhm...." and locked the house for a while after that lol.

But I also like privacy, so that's another reason. When I was in my old FC, I always kept my FC room locked if I ever wanted somewhere to craft or just idle in peace without a bunch of bustling or whatnot around me.

Mine is currently locked with sign on the estate saying, "Interior under construction. Please try again later." I'll re-open it once I actually decorate the interior. I spent just about everything I had getting the medium relocation plus decorating the outside.

i lock my house bc i don't want people in it.