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| Neva's Garage Area at Goetz Race Track |
Awhile back I had a nasty SL breakup. We had a modest parcel of land separate from my primary sim at that time and the tier was charged by the month. So when we no longer had need for the parcel, the tier was paid up three weeks in advance. Such a waste. That money was wasted.
Having learned my lesson, I always shop for parcels that have a weekly payment option. Pay tier by the week and if something should occur, the most amount of tier money you can lose is one weeks worth. In the case of our half-sim Goetz, Neva, cat and I would pay one weeks worth in advance. So on one day, I paid two weeks worth of tier. Then the following Thursday, every Thursday, I would pay one weeks worth of tier. So basically, we were paid up for half of a month and would never let the tier get below one weeks worth, just in case something happened. Well, something did happen and you can see that in a previous post: Poker Face
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| Dylan, Razorbladesmile and bro Nugget at the new parcel. As you can see, Dylan knocked Razor's socks off. |
As it turned out, no service was interrupted and we had a whole week to move to a new parcel. What this move cam down to was the same amount of land as Goetz, only divided in two halves. This allowed my business partner JR and I to put up a gaming area without cat and Neva having to pay for the prims we'd use. But this is the part I like best about not paying a whole month ahead on the tier. We would still have a couple of weeks left on Goetz, yet we would not even be there.
The move to the new parcel went surprisingly well. To be honest, I was not looking forward to it. I contacted two property managers that I have done business with in the past, Mirian and Roving. I contacted Roving first because I remember the 1/4 sim parcel I had under him was very smooth running and virtually lag-free. Unfortunately, he was not responding to my requests even though he was online. He was probably busy doing something away from the computer. So I contacted Miriam, who was also the property manager of the parcel we were currently leasing. She had two parcels and as it turned out, they were next door to each other on the same sim. That was fortunate! So I purchased the one parcel by paying L$49 to her (which is unusual because it's normally a L$1 charge or no charge at all) then paid the tier for the first week. I can pay up to a month ahead but like I said, two weeks ahead is more than enough.
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| Neva's very cool beach home after some landscaping. |
The really nice thing about this parcel was that right next door was the other free parcel. I knew that Neva and cat and I were moving soon, in a day or two, so that would be ideal. I would own the first parcel with JR and the neighboring parcel with Neva and cat. The best of both worlds. Well, the next day as it turns out, that parcel was leased by someone. Damn, I had my chance. I should have just bought it then because the very next day, I was out hunting for the home parcel. I got a hold of Miriam again and she did have a parcel available, but it was not adult rated and we sort of enjoy adult rated sims because then we do not have to carefully watch what we say or do. Not that we are nasty all the time by any means!! Just some of the time.
But as luck would have it, Miriam noticed that another parcel next to the one I purchased with JR was way behind in their tier payment so she reset the parcel and sent me a landmark. It was perfect! I could have not asked for more. I immediately bought it (that odd L$49 charge again) and paid up the tier for one week at this time. It was about an hour later that cat logged on. Before that time I was at our old parcel on Goetz, removing and returning every single prim. So when cat logged on, I was ready to show her the new place. She seemed to like it okay. Her share of the tier payment increased a bit and Neva's and mine went down, so it evened everything out. I figured cat and I would go house hunting and find a new beach home or tropical island hut. Then Neva would put up something too. But it was middle of the day for me so I had to go and work in RL. I left cat there with a kiss and a new home.
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| Both of our new homes. Cat had this one on the left in her inventory since before she and I met. |
As I logon later that night, I am pleasantly surprised to find that cat had already setup a home. It was beautiful!! It's most certainly tropical with a small loft and a couple of first floor rooms and a large living room with adjacent bar. It was perfect! Unfortunately, she was not around so I set out our new bed and put up a chair and RLV capture stand for her so that I may sit and watch her stripped for my pleasure. Once again I had to leave but when I returned a little later that night, she and Neva were there sitting next to the pool. It was such a pleasant surprise to find them both together. Neva had not setup her house yet but cat had done some decorating in the bedroom and lots of plants and seating/furniture out by the pool. Neva had to logoff after a bit of catching up and cat and I proceeded to christen the beach house properly. Since then, Neva has put up her house too and it's beautiful! She has such great tastes.
But the overlaying theme of the whole experience has to be what I was overly worried about in the first place and that was that "home" feeling. Both women commented to me separately, and without being asked that they felt the new place was more like a home to them than Goetz was. That was a very pleasant and welcome surprise.
