Featured post on "THE BEST OF SL" magazine August, 2022 edition, courtesy of Яob Şanтana (roadrabbit)
(Serena Estates is featured from page 76 onwards)
LIVING AT SERENA ESTATES
This month I'm going to share some of the details about living at one of the nicest Estates in Second Life, Serena Estates. All of the photo's taken for this article are from land that is ready to rent and fully landscaped by one of the 3 full-time landscapers at Serena.
Things work a bit differently living on a Second Life Estate in comparison to living on Second Life Mainland where the tier is paid online. When you live on an Estate you pay your rent to the Estate owners directly at a tier box provided by the Estate using Lindens. You need to be sure to log in and pay your rent on time since the rental transaction is in-world. Serena Estates have tier boxes to pay your rent and they remind you if you only have a few days left on your rental.
The primary benefits of choosing an Estate are better performance and less lag than Second Life Mainland, also you can get a bigger plot much easier and have enough prims to build whatever you want to create on your land. If you need assistance Serena Estates provides managers 24/7 as well as 3 full time landscapers to help with anything you might need.
Serena Estates are known for some of the best "ready to move in" (landscaped Land) you can find in Second Life. They are set up to meet your landscaping needs as well as privacy by surrounding your land with off-sim mountains and beautiful waterfalls,premium tree's and cliffs all provided at no cost. They will also customize it to your needs if you need additional terraforming done, more trees, or anything else they can help with.
44 full Sim landscape designs to choose from:
The Serena Estates Flickr is useful to let one of the managers know what landscaping preferences you have:
They have a choice of beach, or grass, and each quarter is surrounded by mountains. If you rent a full Sim, or a full homestead you can add your own off sim surround to the sim such as mountains or islands. Or they will add one for you to your quarter if you'd like .
If you prefer you can also go to the Serena Estate Website and view available properties there and pick up the landmark as well.
Serena Estates offers number of renting options shown below:
Full sim or a full homestead (note the homestead has the same area as a full sim just less prims)
FULL SIM - 30,000 PRIMS 65,536 SQUARE METERS 16,999 LINDENS/week $75.00/week
FULL HOMESTEAD 5,000 PRIMS 65,536 SQUARE METERS 6,799 LINDENS/week $30.00/week
Living on a Full Sim or a full homestead you can have something called Estate Rights.
Estate rights allow you to:
1) Change the terrain texture of the land, 4 different levels
2) Change the water level
3) Set the Environment Windlight
4) RESTART the Region
and more
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The next option is to rent a Quarter Sim or Quarter Homestead
QUARTER SIM 7500 PRIMS 16,384 SQUARE METERS 4,499 LINDENS/week $20.00/week
QUARTER HOMESTEAD 1250 PRIMS 16,384 SQUARE METERS 1,994 LINDENS/week $10.00/week
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The final option is to pick up a smaller parcel which will be cheaper and less prims than the quarter
If they don't have a full sim available they will purchase it for you and give it the name you want. This is a tremendous offer since they are absorbing the sim purchase cost for you. They also haven't raised their prices in 10 years despite the increases from Linden Labs.
Here is a link to the main office: you can just walk in and see the available rentals on the wall to your left inside the office. There are also available properties to the right. Alternatively you can open the World Map, and with "Land Sale" checked you can see if anything is available as it will be yellow on the map indicating that land is for sale.
There are a few community perks for Serena Estates such as Art Shows featuring the photography of residents, support for residents starting up their own business ventures, and community concerts. The management is very responsive and you just need to let them know how you would like their support. If they can help you out they certainly will. Kayla Kaminski the Serena Estate manager believes in embracing global diversity to encourage people from around the world to come together. They are using the Arts Center Sim to promote Second Life Artists who live and work at Serena Estates. Some residents have lived on this estate for over 10 years paying the same exact rent all this time. Serena was one of the first estates that started selling the land for 1 linden so it's very easy to move in and they still have that practice today. Simply open about land, pay 1 linden for the land you are standing on, and they they will show you the tier box so you can pay the required rent. The popularity of Serena Estates has grown from word of mouth. Anyone that has lived here highly recommends it including myself.
Here is a landmark to the Estate Manager's Office should you want to see for yourself
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