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We had had to take a huge loss when our land on GOA was, in effect, stolen from us by the crooked landowners Su Brando and her partner Eve Salomon.
Here is one comment on the Internet about this group, and a clever attempt to cover up her "ad-farm" (hideous groups of adverts planted on people's land regardless of their privacy or drop in land prices)
"She's a real treat, this one. Besides the ad griefing, she runs an island estate land scam. A perfect synergy system, really: people stupid enough to click on adfarm ads are likely to fall for her "pump and dump" scheme, too.
Oh, the Doric-columned Temple of Adfarming and attached phantom ad-hiding tower are mine. Not part of the griefing--well, at least not intentionally ;) "
Su Brando ("Goa", "Bongo"), at Temple of Ad-farming, Dallows
From the time we returned to Second Life in 2007, most of our attention was directed towards what was happening on the ALM site, "Truth" Island.
(That story starts HERE)
In June 2007, while events were building up to their crisis on "Truth", I was pondering what to do with all the furniture and houses I had made. I decided to rent a shop!
My blog said:
Date: 6/20/2007 4:33:59 AM [Edit]
Title: Now I have a shop - what to put in it??
I took the plunge - I rented a shop. YAY - oooer! It's Acorn Antiques (at the moment) in Venture Marketplace, but... I intended to sell my antique furniture - duh, the clue is in the name, doofus - but having seen the competition I'm depressed now. Maybe I should sell my polyphon and musical boxes instead.
After a time, we missed having a place to change our clothes, a place to get away from it all. I also missed the challenge of building.
As the free allotment of land for a premium account holder on SL is so small, I had to be very careful about the size and type of building. Also, we could only afford to buy land in a run-down commercial spot with no nice views, and surrounded by clubs and advertising.
No matter. I had learned to adapt, and I created an illusion box. It was a plain box on the outside with just a hidden entrance through one end wall. Inside however, it was "painted" and laid out to give the illusion of a lovely forest walk, with over-arching trees, leaves underfoot, a bubbling stream, a log bonfire and some log seats. Below is a screenshot.
Actually it was one of the more peaceful houses we owned, possibly because it cut us off from everything happening outside. We couldn't care less if somebody built up their dance platform right to our front door, or the land behind was turned into an ugly factory. We were safe inside our illusion.
Having a shop to myself was really exciting, and I laid it out with interesting and inviting sale signs and objects.
It was a house set into a sloping yard so it had a downstairs room and stairs up to the other sale room, both having doors into the street.
I was just about ready to start advertising, when I got a notice from the land owner that Venture Marketplace was being SOLD to a land developer who was putting in a huge modern Shopping Mall. NOOOOO. Just my luck.
Joining Forces
Then I received an IM that our tiny piece of home land was being surrounded by one huge development, and the new owner wanted to buy it from us or exchange it for another piece elsewhere.
She told us that we could in fact join our two land allotments and own (as a group) a larger piece of land without paying tier payments to the Linden Labs. It seemed good to us, so we relocated yet again, and now the land was large enough for us to fulfil a dream to own a TREE HOUSE.
Inside it was just big enough to be comfortable and I redesigned it to have curved sofas and a log fire. This was the final house we owned. When my husband closed his account in 2008, I was forced to sell the land, since I could not own it jointly without his account on Second Life.
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