Do you have to stay subscribed to keep your house?

[NoGrass]

So I'm only 2 months into the game, and when I asked about housing and how to keep your house from being demolished, I've come across differing sources of information. Some people have told me you need to stay subscribed year round, while others you only need to enter your house every 45 days. While the latter still limits you to staying subscribed almost year round, it does allow you to unsubscribe for about a month, so long as you re-subscribe can enter your house again before 45 days. So does anyone know for sure whether you have to maintain a year round subscription to keep your house?

[DarkMasamune]

You only need to enter it once every 45 days.

I've got a few friends who had no subscriptions for a month and they didn't loose their houses. When they came back, they entered their houses and voilà.

No worries

[MrThinker]

So I'm only 2 months into the game, and when I asked about housing and how to keep your house from being demolished, I've come across differing sources of information. Some people have told me you need to stay subscribed year round, while others you only need to enter your house every 45 days. While the latter still limits you to staying subscribed almost year round, it does allow you to unsubscribe for about a month, so long as you re-subscribe can enter your house again before 45 days. So does anyone know for sure whether you have to maintain a year round subscription to keep your house?

Entering your house once every 45 days is the actual requirement, but currently the demolition timer for houses has been suspended due to ongoing real world issues. They will make a forum post when these timers are reactivated.

[Jojoya]

Just to add to what others already told you, only entry by the owner of the house will reset the demolition timer when they're active. Entry by a tenant does not reset it.

Apartments never have a demolition timer. Once you purchase an apartment, it will always be yours unless you intentionally relinquish it.

[KayRadley]

To further add: right now, auto-demolition timers have been suspended in light of the COVID-19 pandemic (before any Karens pop up, the pandemic has caused many businesses to cut back operations if not shut down entirely, which means a lot of people facing financial hardships, which means a lot of players unable to keep their subs up through no fault of their own), so until further notice, you don't need to worry about losing your house if you get one.

[Vidu]

...to clarify (because I recall some threads about people complaing because they got this wrong): Entering your house means actually entering your house through the front door, aka: loading into the estate itself. Just entering your property, aka the yard is not good enough. You need to click on the front door and enter the interior of your estate once every 45 days.

For FC houses any member can do this, for personal homes it has to be the owner themself - you'll get notifications under the "timer"-menu if houses that you're tenant off are up for auto-demolition aswell, but only the owner will be able to reset those. And only YOU can kepp YOUR house from being demolished.

[Waaltar]

I'd like a one time fee for permanent housing with no demolition timer. They can charge enough to make it help pay for more server space etc for more housing wards for everyone.

Even someone who intends to have a lifetime sub could get in a car accident, or really any number of ways that they lose access to their computer for a while. And if the housing timer is active, then poof it's gone.

[Vidu]

I'd like a one time fee for permanent housing with no demolition timer. They can charge enough to make it help pay for more server space etc for more housing wards for everyone.

Even someone who intends to have a lifetime sub could get in a car accident, or really any number of ways that they lose access to their computer for a while. And if the housing timer is active, then poof it's gone.

That would be an apartment for you - 500k gil, no demolition (and its very, very unlikely they'll ever introduce demolition for apartments). They mentioned that they're looking into expanding apartments aswell, so maybe one day we could have apartments with the size of mansions.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

That would be an apartment for you - 500k gil, no demolition (and its very, very unlikely they'll ever introduce demolition for apartments). They mentioned that they're looking into expanding apartments aswell, so maybe one day we could have apartments with the size of mansions.

One of the best things SE could do for apartments, which they can do right now, is to increase the furnishing limit to 200 (the same as a small house). That alone turns apartments into a playground for anyone who wants to do fancy/glitchy house design. The current limit of 100 items is just far too restrictive imo.

While I know other people want, bigger spaces and other features, if SE could add an indoor garden plot item for crossbreeding along with the above increase in furnishing limit, that would pretty much "fix" apartments for me.

[Sshado]

SE prioritizes players who cannot pay their sub over players who can.

Reinstate Auto-Demolish.