I sell real estate. Most days I don’t sell much. My tier is 8k which means I can own up to about 8100 sqm before I have to pay more usage fees. My current fee level is US$40/mo. So far, my earnings in land trading haven’t covered my tier expenses so this isn’t a very good model. One of the problems is that I’m too small. I only have — at most — 16 plots for sale at a time and I make only about 10% margin on each trade. For a 512sqm “basic plot” I make about 500L profit between buying and selling. For 1024s — the “double wide” of real estate — I make about 900L.

The interesting thing is what people want to buy. The reality of SL is that you need a small piece of land — or at least access to a plot — in order to actually drop anything. Some people use sandboxes, but those tend to be public. I struggled myself with whether or not I really needed a house of my own. It is, after all, inventory in my trade and might be more valued as such. Early on, I bought a hillside. Very attractive, and an intriguing slope. That was before I learned that most people want flat, green, rectangular plots.

So I claimed the lot as Villota World Headquarters and built my house there.