Real Estate Business in Second Life
Anshe Chung is called, and the business of buying plots at low prices, they build hotels, apartments or houses and then sell or rent. None of this would be unusual, but it was because she does everything in a virtual world called Second Life , where plots and hotels are completely virtual. But Anshe Chung, a professor of language with Chinese nationality, has billed more than $ 250,000 of the truth.
But what is Second Life? Basically it is a virtual world, accessible instalandote a program on your computer, something like a graphic adventure game, where you can chat with other virtual people (see wikipedia , and introductory video ). We will create our character and from there we can do many activities in this virtual world, such as making friends, travel, buy cars or clothes, casino gambling, work, build o. .. make money. Major brands such as Toyota, Vodafone, Adidas, IBM, and even real estate as Codwell Banker , have already opened offices in the virtual world.
In Second Life, the space is divided into regions or grids, which can be land (plot) or may be Tues You can buy plots to build for $ 1675 plus a monthly rate of $ 9.95, or acquire a stock of plot (stretch of sea where there is not land) is auctions through its website , with starting price $ 30. Each plot has a maximum limit that can create objects (prims), or what is, a buildable. A prim is the basic unit of construction, and may have different properties as texture, size, behavior, etc.. A home for example can contain about 500 prims. More information about the “law of the land” in Second Life at this link .
Ansche Chung, not only makes money through speculation of land in Second Life, but also was the first estate agency in this virtual world. Over time there have been other people who are engaged in speculation, is permitted and even encourage you to do it from their website. The currency used is the Linden, which can be exchanged for U.S. dollars. With this money we can buy goods, services or speculate.
Conclusion: You can make money doing real estate business in Second Life. Personally I think the case is very timely Anshe Chung, the platform is still moving away from large amounts of money. However, the fact that some large companies to take positions , can lead us to consider in the future the idea of expanding our business into the new virtual world.