Too many empty houses

[Almagnus1]

No that wouldn't be good. There are people who switch their personals to FC's and vice versa. This would cause a problem not fix one.

I'd be fine if there were restrictions on this.

A personal house should be allowed to become an FC house assuming the owner is part of the FC. The FC should be allowed to let the house become a personal house for that owner again, so that way the original owner can get their house back if something happens with the FC. A tweak to permissions would probably be a better solution, though.

That said, I don't see another valid reason to let the FC give the FC house to a person - as that activity smells of house flipping.

[Almagnus1]

Whenever people decorate it or not is non of anyones business.
What i can get anoyed at sometimes is people buying a plot but never build the estate hall.

IMO a vanilla house should be part of the cost of the plot, so at least there's SOMETHING there.

[Rinuko]

IMO a vanilla house should be part of the cost of the plot, so at least there's SOMETHING there.

I can agree with that. Would be a nice QOL

[Claviusnex]

Housing is expensive. Furniture is expensive, too. Making furniture yourself is time consuming, too. It takes time to decorate a house for some people, especially if they only just had enough gil for the house itself. I saw some plots stay empty for awhile and suspected foul play and scalpers, but soon realized after awhile when they bought a house permit and it was owned by the same person... they probably just struggled to get that extra cash.

This was the case for me when I bought my house. I hadn't been playing for very long so getting gil was a slow process as I leveled my character, retainer, gathering and crafting. Same for furnishing the house. I would say it took about 6 months to look reasonably furnished. You also have some players that only get a house for the garden and Chocobo stable which I see nothing wrong with either.