Quote Originally Posted by Almagnus1 View Post
IMO I think the loophole here is (SE once again) not realizing that they need to restrict things on a per account per server basis, and not per character.

For example, only one character per account per server should be on any leaderboard, and an account should only have one apartment and one personal house on any given server. SE fixes THAT issue, and we'd likely see a good chunk of apartments released from the system as SE is basically getting forced to do this because there is no way they can ever release enough housing to accommodate the demand in the near future.
Incorrect. First, SE will not restrict apartments. At the time they were implemented, SE probably was under the impression they were unlikely to sell out and there's no need to restrict them. And by and large they're right. Balmung is a unique situation and afaik the only server that has sold out. Other servers still have plenty of open apartments. I walked out of my FC house this morning and checked the nearby apartment block and out of 90 possible slots only 16 of them have tenants. It's not a loophole that people can buy an apartment on their alts. It was actually meant to be something you could purchase on multiple characters on a given server.

In the extremely unlikely event they do decide to restrict them in the future, they will grandfather in current ownerships, just as they did with multi home owners at the time they instituted the 1 personal per server rule. They are not going to punish players who were playing by the rules at the time. So no, there will be no sudden release of apartments. It's a silly thing considering Balmung is literally the only server that's sold out. The best thing they can do is just add more apartments, as they told us they could do in the future if it was needed.