possible solutions

[not_ya_wify]

FC Apartments
self explanatory

Apartments need an overhaul in general. We should be able to have tenants and as we level up our character in Grand Company rank, we should get permits to renovate our apartments to make them larger or add floors.

FC Districts
separate districts for FC USE ONLY meaning you can only purchase a house there if your the leader of an FC and the size of the house you can buy is determined by the average amount of active FC members.(active meaning they just log in once every 2 months) this would be to prevent a dieing FC with 1 member left from keeping a plot to himself, when an alive FC would love to have it.

Sometimes, my FC dies out and I don\\\\'t have the mental capacity to recruit for new members, but people often come back after several months hiatus. I just had someone come back 2 weeks ago who hasn\\\\'t been playing for 2 years and someone else for 9 months. This would basically force me into a recruiting frenzy when I really don\\\\'t have the mental capacity to care for sprouts and I really want to spend my time working on something else. Just to keep my FC house that I\\\\'ve put so much time, gil, and effort into decorating.

Instanced Housing
(on a plot of land in the environment of your choosing).
Or at least provide instanced plots in addition to the system that we have now, because alot of people wouldn\\\\'t want to lose the progress they made.(the gil they saved up to buy a plot, the time they spent at a housing placard hoping they end up being the one that gets it. This guy has a great idea as far as instanced housing goes:

This is an ok solution because it has the benefit of creating very lively neighborhoods. The disadvantage being that you can\\\\'t advertise your design skills through yard decor and people will stop to randomly just walk up to your home and check it out.

Fix Transfers
make people who are transferring to another plot go through the same process as people who are not transferring.(you camp a spot for 16 hours and someone walks up and takes it in a few seconds, are you kidding me?)

The reason transferring is prioritized is because if someone transfers to the plot you were camping at, that means another plot just opened up somewhere else. There aren\\\\'t any fewer plots available than there were before. You may not like their old plot as much as the plaquard you spammed but from the developers\\\\' perspective, a house is a house. And now that you have one, you too are able to relocate to a better location. So, this isn\\\\'t an issue that needs fixing.

[not_ya_wify]

Achievement Based Housing
create a legendary housing district for people who accomplish extremely difficult tasks in the game like top 10 pvp players in the server or those who clear the most difficult raids while having all jobs at max level whilst being the first to do so on their server, or art contest winners. things like that.

Not sure how I feel about that one. But that\\\\\\\\\\\\'s mainly because I\\\\\\\\\\\\'m not a hardcore gamer and I\\\\\\\\\\\\'m not interested in being a top player in PvP or raids. I play this game mainly for housing, so a house in the legendary district would be highly desirable, but doing raids would be undesirable (and pretty much impossible skill wise). Most of the housing designers I know peg me more as creative types who are mostly focused on furniture, glams and crafting (which isn\\\\\\\\\\\\'t to say they don\\\\\\\\\\\\'t do raids. I just dont.) In that case, design contest winners might be most likely to overlap with the people who care a lot about housing. A house on such a district would also be a way cooler prize than the boring glams that are always the same for each contest and don\\\\\\\\\\\\'t really go with any outfit in the game. But I find it unlikely comparing the effort they\\\\\\\\\\\\'ve put into those winner glams versus the effort it would take to create a unique housing district for special people and this would also take up additional server space like any other new ward would.