Quote Originally Posted by Mholito View Post
The reason they do not hold onto items from deleteed houses indefinitely is because it would clog up the servers. For every person that buys a house and leaves the game forever at some point afterwards, that would be one more set of items that would take up valuable server space forever. They do not want to deal with an ever increasing amount of stored data that is never used, so they put up a limit to how long it is stored.
Housing items that have been reclaimed is likely stored on a database/table separate from character data, and is reference by a foreign key. Their inability to store data for longer than 45 days is a design decision, and has nothing to do with any server/resource limitations.