Do you want instanced housing?

[Youkulm]

To OP's questions: Absolutely yes, if it would guarantee every FC and every person gets a house if they can afford it, then yes.

I always thought instanced housing as a better idea. It opens a lot of possibilities we don't have right now. It could possibly allow you to change the look of your house's enviroment at will without having to move neighborhoods (thinking housing glamours/walls but for the yard, sky, and background) making your instanced house look like Ishgard one day then Ul'dah the next. Overall I feel instanced housing would be profoundly better. There is no way for them to continue to sustain the current system by adding more and more wards. The wards will continue to be bought by shell FCs (its sad that almost every server has wards with one FC that bought the whole thing) while people who have been wanting a house for years can't get one. Instanced housing would ensure there is a limit of 1 per character, no more silly loop holes.

Neighborhoods are a nice idea but it's a failed experiment in my opinion. Very few people actually hang out in the neighborhoods. I've had houses ( both FC and Personal ) since ARR, the neighborhoods are always dead unless there is an RP event going on in one of the houses in your ward.

No, I can visit and admire some ones decorated apartment and make a comment in the guest book, how is that isolating? from what Im hearing about instance housing you can't even visit and admire someone else's handywork. I don't like that.

Every game i've played with instanced housing, you can still visit people's houses. I don't know where you get the idea you wouldn't be able to.

[Shibi]

My vote is a definite yes as a parallel to the existing system. Existing system would have demo turned back on and left on, and the FC/Personal split removed, but otherwise remain static from that point.

Every game i've played with instanced housing, you can still visit people's houses. I don't know where you get the idea you wouldn't be able to.

Absolutely, and it can be more too! Two of the games I played had a monthly vote/leaderboard system for housing. You could visit anyone's opened house from the menu and place your vote on the one you thought was worthy.