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For everything else you said you can either buy buffs or use FC housing you don't need your own personal house and if you aren't playing for longer than 30 (or 45 days) you don't need any of it.
I would just like to clarify on this, I meant the grade 3 buffs specifically. These cannot be bought, you must use your own FC's house for them, assuming your FC has a house for it. Gardening with crossbreeding is much the same, you need either a personal house, or an FC house that lets you do gardening, to access it (you can't crossbreed in apartments). Hence why I mentioned them perhaps allowing apartments to do crossbreeding. That way we can reduce the need for personal housing further.

But, I do feel it should still become instanced even if it becomes FC only (with apartments for personal use). One ward for each area, no subdivision. Each house gets an instanced exterior and interior (and you would have options at each plot to type in the name of a free company, or "Go to your FC plot" should your FC be plotted there, perhaps also phase the instanced areas so they have a different house in the plot for each player?), and you would go to the area. No more multiple wards clogging up CPU cycles. Just have them instanced like duty instances. Plus, in doing so, it will also enable cross-realm free companies, and solve their housing issues there too (since I believe I read somewhere they were working on cross-realm FCs as well). Then, the challenge becomes how to allow maps to be done cross-realm, but that's a whole other kettle of fish.