Seems that most servers have at least one or two people doing this (or bought houses while there was a content drought and plots were plentiful). Now plots are all sold out and it's a rat race for anyone wanting player housing.

It's not against TOS so the argument is more on your personal feelings so for me personally yeah I hate it. Especially when the houses or FCs made are exact copies with slight changes to spelling, the FCs no longer have people in them expect for the alt needed to maintain it and once you see upwards of 6 and more houses with the same tag lines in one residential area and more across the other it's annoying.

But again, this is a grievance brought on by other faulty systems, right?

Like I wouldn't be as upset if when I found an available plot I could outright by it instead of the random timer being in place and then tossing up the idea of "do I just not sleep tonight?" and then when I choose to do that, someone comes to the placard and begins running a script to auto click away at it or someone moves to that plot resetting the cycle.

Housing is just a vicious toxic cycle right now that I try to stay away from and hope the expansion alleviates.