Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
SE made of point of saying when apartments were added that house owners could also purchase them, countering your belief. If they were only intended for players who couldn't get a house, SE would have blocked house owners from buying them just as we cannot purchase a house with an alt any longer if another character on the same account/world already owns a house.

I think apartments were primarily intended to be a cheap alternative to houses for players who didn't want to spend millions to get a house, and those who wanted to be able to take breaks from the game without losing their housing.
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.