Gil Rete for Relinquishing Plots

[Jpec07]

Well, I do understand that it's meant to be a gil sink, but the fact that people are turning around and selling the plots means that people actually are treating it like a termed investment already. The fact that they're allowing people to reclaim their gil at all also means that if someone does want to treat it like an investment, they just need to wait out the reclamation period.

If someone can wait 45 days and get 80% of their gil back, why shouldn't someone willfully relinquishing their plot also get that gil?

[worldofneil]

people are turning around and selling the plots means

There's multiple threads from people that say people have had warnings on their account from GMs for selling their houses. It seems to vary per region (NA more than EU) and it seems someone probably has to report them (advertising the house publicly via Party Finder is a sure fire way), but SE definitely aren't okay with it. So yes some people are doing this, but SE seem to be clamping down on it.

If someone can wait 45 days and get 80% of their gil back, why shouldn't someone willfully relinquishing their plot also get that gil?

Getting the 80% back is compensation for having lost the house. If you *choose* to give up the house yourself that's another matter (and hence no money back). Obviously people will wait 45 days to get the money back, but that wasn't the intention of the compensation and at least right now it's an inconvenience to the person trying to beat the system and do that.