Apartments need Rent

[Sotaris]

Point here is to add in a gil sink to the game where one isn't already existing. With as low as it is on apartments, it sets precedent to do the same for houses, where it can be much higher (especially on the FC houses). If the FC house rent is a lot higher than the house rent (and both higher than the apartment rent) it makes owning and operating a shell FC house that much harder to do because you've got to deal with the rent. Right now, with such a trivial amount on apartments, it basically serves to introduce the gil sink, make apartments a lot easier to get into (lower GC rank and 100k vs 500k initial cost) so (in essence) it's opening them up.

And just because you disagree with the idea doesn't make it a troll thread =)

But there is zero incentive to have a gilsink like a "rent". It would be much better in that case to expand the gilsink mounts they added some time ago.

I never said "disagree = troll thread" but the suggestion is so absurd that it easy to make that assumption =)