First Storm Leiutenant, have twice as much as asking price, but unable to buy house

[MoltresRider]

Has anybody done research/experimented with how the timer works? Like is it an exact specific number of hours, or can the timer be something like 9 hours and 27 minutes? I mean, would I have better luck by timing it to be on the hour exactly?

Google suggests that relocation bypasses the timer. Is this true? Will it work for my FC private chambers if I select 'relocate' and select the FC chambers? I can always just buy another FC room

[Kleeya]

If the random timer wasn't here, the previous owner would have known the exact moment when the house would be available again for purchase, and would have warned one of his friend to stay next to the plot to snatch it right away when it becomes free. Or worse, instead of giving it to a friend he could have sold it for millions of gils, or even real money to the highest bidder (this is called house flipping).

And you would have never get it.

While the invisible timer is for sure an irritating system, at least now you can SEE free plots, and even TRY to get them. Which is a huge improvement compared to the old times when house flipping was rampant without the invisible timer, and 100% of the plots always taken.

Has anybody done research/experimented with how the timer works? Like is it an exact specific number of hours, or can the timer be something like 9 hours and 27 minutes? I mean, would I have better luck by timing it to be on the hour exactly?

Google suggests that relocation bypasses the timer. Is this true? Will it work for my FC private chambers if I select 'relocate' and select the FC chambers? I can always just buy another FC room

As far as i know the timer is totally random, which would be logical because it is the point of it. And if you are talking of the tiny FC room you buy for 300 000 gils, it isn't gonna work. It is the entire FC house that needs to move.

[ItMe]

Google suggests that relocation bypasses the timer. Is this true? Will it work for my FC private chambers if I select 'relocate' and select the FC chambers? I can always just buy another FC room

FC chambers =/= a house.
If you have a house and want to move it to an empty plot, you can. That will circumvent the relocation timer.

[Sotaris]

Has anybody done research/experimented with how the timer works? Like is it an exact specific number of hours, or can the timer be something like 9 hours and 27 minutes? I mean, would I have better luck by timing it to be on the hour exactly?

Google suggests that relocation bypasses the timer. Is this true? Will it work for my FC private chambers if I select 'relocate' and select the FC chambers? I can always just buy another FC room

Timer is completely random. There isn't a fixed value known to man.

[Random0]

Has anybody done research/experimented with how the timer works? Like is it an exact specific number of hours, or can the timer be something like 9 hours and 27 minutes? I mean, would I have better luck by timing it to be on the hour exactly?

Google suggests that relocation bypasses the timer. Is this true? Will it work for my FC private chambers if I select 'relocate' and select the FC chambers? I can always just buy another FC room

It's been suggested that plots open up on the hour.

And using relocation to bypass the timer only works if you already have an existing housing plot, since that sort of relocation opens up your old plot. You cannot relocate from a FC room to a full housing plot.