Your2ndPlace

Being a landlord carries with it some hefty stereotypes. We all dabble in the black arts, are swimmingly rich and take food out of the mouths of babies.

However I wouldn't swap it for anything because being a landlord means you get to meet people. The artistic, the excited, the sexy, the newbies, the business peeps, the scripters, the escorts, the cyber junkies, the dreamers and the hopeless romantics.

I always say to my tenants "Sometimes I don't thrill you, sometimes I think I'll kill you, just don't let me f*ck up will you, because when I need a friend it's still you".

Well I don't say that in that many words, but it pretty much sums it up. I speak to them when they're crying because their partner has left and I speak to them when they're inviting me to their wedding. You see a lot as a landlord.

From a social networking point of view being a landlord is where it's at. You also learn a lot because people ask you how to do things and although it's a sort of jack of all trades, master of none situation, you get a broad overview, you learn what people want to do, why they come here and why they leave. The Lindens would do well to consult landlords on user retention.

I get people asking me how to make things work from setting a media stream to getting their Xcite product to work. Residents aren't shy "Hi Ciaran, I can't get this sex toy to work, can you have a look"..... "Err yeah ok" I reply, wondering if I'll walk in on the middle of a scene, fortunately not!

However sometimes as a landlord you might not feel appreciated, but appreciation isn't far away. Today I've had one tenant thank me for a search description and another who handed me an award:

This cheered me up no end because earlier I'd been ar'd for putting trees next to some 16M parcel plots of land that neighbour one of my parcels, these plots are complete with banlines and for sale for prices like L$9,999 and L$7,999, I guess the empty plots didn't appreciate the overhanging trees, but as they were empty, I thought "sod it". I was going to make my own awards for twat of the year to the guy selling the parcel for L$9,999 that borders my parcels on two sides, and on the other two sides borders extortionist 16M plots, who do you think is going to buy your banline plot you numpty!

However, my tenants rock, so I'm happy!

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