HOME / PRIVATE ISLANDS / COVENANTS AND ESTATE LAND SALES
Covenants come into play if you decide you wish to sell your land on your private estate. It is not mandatory to set a covenant to enable land sales but it is suggested if you wish to set up zoning or other rule sets on your Estate. You can sell land on your Estate without a covenant, but we don't recommend it. To allow reselling you must have a covenant. If you wish to let the next parcel owner sell their parcel, click the "Enable Land Resell" box in the General tab. Unless you enable this second step, parcels will only sell to the first person (particular resident or anyone) that purchases it. If they wish to abandon the land they must release/abandon it. If you wish people to be able to sell the land on once they have purchased it, you can enable that function. Whenever there is a covenant present on an estate you must agree to it to purchase a parcel whether the functionality to resell land is enabled or not.
Covenants are viewable at all times for the parcel owner in the Covenant tab of the About land menu.
To set or change the covenant, simply drop a new note card into the Covenant box. A prompt will ask you if you are certain. If you are, go ahead and confirm, the covenant will be reset. (As of August 23, 2006 release there is a small bug in the reset button, you can only reset your own covenants not those made by other managers or the owner. You can however still change the covenant by dropping a note card into the field)
Estate managers can set parcels for sale.
Unticking the land sales box does reset parcels already set for sale.
A word about covenants:
Covenants are intended to easily communicate to prospective buyers the terms and conditions of owning property on your estate, whether it be a single island or several. We recommend you do not change the terms of a covenant without informing your residents, as unpleasantness may result. Communications you may wish to have via Covenant with your residents include: payment information, zoning or theming of area, best ways to communicate with you as the estate owner, etc.
Estate owners and managers are still the final arbiters of the estate. Land owners on your estate may not request rollbacks or other technical support (restarts etc), but should contact you for those needs. This allows you to retain control of the estate and management yourself.
Currently parcels on private estates cannot be deeded to group, although they can be set to group. The estate owner can still deed a parcel to group.