what should I know before investing in a player home?

[Elamys]

Make sure you have the money to build a house on the plot as well, as you're given I think 2 weeks max to build a house on the land before it is relinquished automatically.

Consider furnishing limits, particularly for outside, carefully; it's a lot easier indoors now but outdoor limit was not raised.

Furniture can be really expensive so if you don't craft but have friends that do, I would suggest asking for their help in getting your place decorated.

You can have tenants to share your house, and assign them permissions. If you give them permission to move furniture around, make sure you trust them, as they can most certainly steal items from you.

And most importantly, don't just get your house and ignore it! A lot of people would love to have a house, but it's a shame that so many get bought and then go unused beyond just resetting the demolition timer.

In regards to that, it's 45 days without entering, and it's demolished. It has to be YOU, the owner, not a tenant. You can check the status of your demolition timer under Estate in the timers tab, but they will also send you emails, and lots of them, if you are at risk of it being demolished.

[Dyvid]

Make sure you have the money to build a house on the plot as well, as you're given I think 2 weeks max to build a house on the land before it is relinquished automatically.

Very good point. Make sure you have enough for the construction permit too. I believe it's 450k for cottage, 1m for house, and 3m for mansion. Make sure you check the market board first, you might be able to find a cheaper option, but remember you can only use glade for Grid, Rivera for Limsa, and Oasis for Ul'dah.

[Elamys]

Very good point. Make sure you have enough for the construction permit too. I believe it's 450k for cottage, 1m for house, and 3m for mansion. Make sure you check the market board first, you might be able to find a cheaper option, but remember you can only use glade for Grid, Rivera for Limsa, and Oasis for Ul'dah.

I think that's probably true for the permits but once the house is built you can change it to any of the various walls. There's a glade house in my Mist neighborhood, it's quite weird looking.

[Acilith]

Red text I got when I tried to put a glade roof on my oasis house. Still not possible. Someone in your Mist neighbourhood must have a moogle skin or something. It's not glade.

[worldofneil]

Make sure you have the money to build a house on the plot as well, as you're given I think 2 weeks max to build a house on the land before it is relinquished automatically.

There's no specific demolition timer for plots without an estate hall, so the earliest it can demolish is 45 days still. It's literally just that without an estate hall it's impossible to go inside to stop the timer hence they get auto removed if not used.