Nope you didn't add enough plots SE...

[Nomenanza]

I had just waited for TWELVE hours on a plot: it had a good spot, it was near a marketboard, it was a small plot too like I wanted.
Twelve hours wasted because while I was there ready to press a buy button the plot was already bought by another player that just spammed the plaque, as apparently the status of the plot doesn't update in the plot window!

How hard is it to just show a timer on the menu? What is even the point of hiding the timer? I don't get it. The biggest frustration with housing is just not being able to even know when the plot is available for purchase.

It feels as if the entire system is more rewarding to whoever uses bots, as you can't expect a human to just sit there and spam the spot with purchase requests for hours on end. Especially if they play on consoles like I do.

[Shougun]

How hard is it to just show a timer on the menu? What is even the point of hiding the timer? I don't get it. The biggest frustration with housing is just not being able to even know when the plot is available for purchase.

To prevent reselling. Can't tell someone to meet you at noon to trade papers and coin when you can't assure them when the plot will release. Of course the relocation system goes around this and makes the timer a bit less useful (but is a bit obtuse so not everyone will be able to easily do that one, like using the FC shell concept).

There was a lot of reselling before the timer. OF course you can suggest other solutions but each will have their own issues. For example lottery would probably be even more bot friendly, but far less stressful / time wasting.