So many people are missing the point here. Oh well, my message is for Square Enix and I think they understand what I'm saying.

What so many of you don't understand is the disaster of a design that housing is that requires the deletion of inactive houses to begin with. My original post clearly notes that I understand the need for house deletions in the current model, and that apartments are a decent compromise.

What I'm telling Square, is that deleting 90% of my gil and investment of the game - something I spent hours organizing and making my own - makes it really hard to ever want to play again. They are turning players away that may have otherwise come back.

In a nutshell, they have a badly designed housing system with some of the most severely punishing consequences I've ever seen a game developer inflict on their player-base trying to take a break from their game.