SE needs to do the following:
  • Add instanced housing
  • Add more wards
  • Give all characters on a server teleports to all houses owned by all the characters on the same account on that server
  • Reinstate the restrictions at https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../housing_land/ and never disable them
  • Change the above restrictions on FC houses to not check housing ownership on the account (because that doesn't make sense), instead check if the FC has four active subscriptions (as four signatures are needed to create the FC).
  • Use a countdown/count up timer for the FC house where it releases the house if the timer reaches zero, the timer only counts down if the number of active subscriptions is less then four, and counts up if there are at least four active subscriptions if the timer was in count down mode until it's at max duration.
  • Force the release of the grandfathered in houses over a series of patches

SE does all of the above and that will end this problem, until then, we'll continue to have people on this forum tell others to just git gud at house buying when others state flaws within this system (as seen in this thread).