About Plot selling

[Mael-bess]

It does make you greedy when you're trying to get back the gil you invested in something that's not even meant to be profitable, but something to sink money in and maintain for a long term, it's rather expected to you will loose money when getting rid of it, this is exactly like real life housing,

The problem here is SE housing system as it is;

-Houses should be account wide (able to be accessed from all your characters)
-Only 1 house should be allowed per player
-You should be able to switch houses more easily (like when you buy a new plot, your old one get's demolished and you get a discount in the new one)
-You should be able to demolish your house if you want to, without waiting 45 days

House selling by players shouldn't be allowed anyway, it creates a bad market.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

It does make you greedy when you're trying to get back the gil you invested in something that's not even meant to be profitable, but something to sink money in and maintain for a long term, it's rather expected to you will loose money when getting rid of it, this is exactly like real life housing,

The problem here is SE housing system as it is;

-Houses should be account wide (able to be accessed from all your characters)
-Only 1 house should be allowed per player
-You should be able to switch houses more easily (like when you buy a new plot, your old one get's demolished and you get a discount in the new one)
-You should be able to demolish your house if you want to, without waiting 45 days

House selling by players shouldn't be allowed anyway, it creates a bad market.

No offense, but have you ever heard of house flipping in real life? The potential mark up on real estate ventures is extraordinary if you have the available cash to gamble the market. Purchase a fixer up at a fraction of the cost, have construction done and resell it sometime thereafter. You can turn a profit several thousand beyond your initial investment. That is not greed-- just simple economics. People wanting a return on their investment in-game is comparable to the aforementioned. Granted, most go well above making a little profit or merely wanting to recoup their losses. While I agree with your solution, as it stands, you're demanding a lot of people to essentially give up millions of gil under the current system.

[Ashkendor]

No offense, but have you ever heard of house flipping in real life? The potential mark up on real estate ventures is extraordinary if you have the available cash to gamble the market. Purchase a fixer up at a fraction of the cost, have construction done and resell it sometime thereafter. You can turn a profit several thousand beyond your initial investment. That is not greed-- just simple economics. People wanting a return on their investment in-game is comparable to the aforementioned. Granted, most go well above making a little profit or merely wanting to recoup their losses. While I agree with your solution, as it stands, you're demanding a lot of people to essentially give up millions of gil under the current system.

Er... except house flippers typically do a lot of renovating. You can't really compare that to what's happening with our housing system since you can't sell an actual house - you can only basically sell knowledge of the exact time that you relinquish the plot. I don't have a problem with someone wanting to recoup their loss for the plot. I do have a problem when I see people putting Smalls up on Party Finder for 20-50mil. Trying to exploit a limited resource like that is wrong imo. :/

[Mael-bess]

No offense, but have you ever heard of house flipping in real life? The potential mark up on real estate ventures is extraordinary if you have the available cash to gamble the market. Purchase a fixer up at a fraction of the cost, have construction done and resell it sometime thereafter. You can turn a profit several thousand beyond your initial investment. That is not greed-- just simple economics. People wanting a return on their investment in-game is comparable to the aforementioned. Granted, most go well above making a little profit or merely wanting to recoup their losses. While I agree with your solution, as it stands, you're demanding a lot of people to essentially give up millions of gil under the current system.

True, but it's also quite different. First in real life you renovate the house entirely to be able to make any profit out of it when selling. Second in real life there's a bunch of supply, as much, or even more, than is demand for houses.

This doesn't happens in game, house spaces (plots i guess) are very, very limited and when you "sell" your house you're basically, like many people said, taking a bribe to demolish it so that the buyer may (not even 100% possibility) buy it. Any content or investment you've made in it, means nothing, only the plot does.
As it is right now, this needs to change, i don't like seeing people giving up so many gil, but i hate house hoarders even more, it's unfair for both sides: players with houses and players without houses.