Land Taxes

[Dustytome]

If a player lends their house to a fc they're in until the fc can find better, then they can't get their house back after the fc relinquishes when they move to another plot unless they plan on camping for days. You think that's fair? It would also thwart anyone who logs on to rebuy their house after the demolition timer hits zero. Which would suck if you, for example, couldn't log in until then because you were in hospital.

Also a house flipper could easily find a way around this by making the house a fc house and just give master to the person they're selling to.

Those are oddly specific scenarios. You'd have to be unable to access FFXIV until the specific hour of the house getting demolished due to being in the hospital? The FC thing is likely going to be difficult to tackle, but it still cuts out a lot of potential business from the flippers. Regardless of what we feel would be the best method of dealing with the issue though, it's up to Square to decide what they feel is the correct line of action and carry through with it.

[Penthea]

Those are oddly specific scenarios. You'd have to be unable to access FFXIV until the specific hour of the house getting demolished due to being in the hospital? The FC thing is likely going to be difficult to tackle, but it still cuts out a lot of potential business from the flippers. Regardless of what we feel would be the best method of dealing with the issue though, it's up to Square to decide what they feel is the correct line of action and carry through with it.

Maybe they're very specific but I think the best way to tackle house flipping isn't by putting tonnes of red tape restrictions to inhibit players, but to instead reduce the size of (ideally eliminate) the market house flippers have to sell to.

House flippers aren't around because it's too easy for them to house flip, they're around because they have a gigantic potential customer base. As long as there is an extreme shortage of residency, house flippers will always have a market and will always find a way to make an enormous amount of money.

The real problem is the shortage, house flippers are just a symptom of the problem and they feed on it.