Hello and welcome.
Please note that it is your responsibility to read this covenant fully, whether you are a resident or visitor. Every visitor has to abide by the LL Terms of Service (ToS) and Community Standards (CS) of Second Life.
Alba Islands and Alba Estate is a private, virtual land rental provider within Second Life. You don’t need a premium account; just a basic one will do in order to rent a home. Go to https://join.secondlife.com/?lang=en-US and join in the experience.
The following are in place to ensure a pleasant and enjoyable environment for all within Alba Estate.
1. Conduct
2. Renting
3. Refunds or Transfers
4. Building Types and Prims
Request to use your own homes.
Sky Homes/Platforms.
Prims.
5. Residential Zoning & Limitations
6. Privacy and Security
Privacy.
Security.
Adding others to Security
Key Notes.
7. Scripts
8. Terraforming
9. Rental Cottage & Houseboat Reclamation
10. Stand-Alone Regions
Homesteads.
11. Failure to Follow Covenant
12. Covenant Updates
1. Conduct
2. Renting
Once at a rental box:
If you do not receive a group invite, please wait for 3 minutes and then touch the rental box again and look for the Group Invite button. If this fails then please contact Todalerdale Stine.
3. Refunds or Transfers
When renting, it is acknowledged that you have decided to rent that parcel for the time specified in the rental box. Therefore think carefully on your intent to stay as refunds will not be issued.
This also applies should you wish to move to another parcel within the Estate in that your remaining rent amount or time will not be transferred to another rental box. Other Estates may do this but we do not.
4. Building Types and Prims
The Estate follows a nature/mountain theme and as such, log cabins, homes with brick, stone, wood houses etc are generally acceptable. Medieval castles, forts, tree houses, etc are not acceptable.
Nothing is to be placed on roofs of any homes with the exception of such items as a chimney, solar panels, roof tiles. ECO style homes may have grass on the roof if designed that way.
If in doubt, ask.
Requests to use your own homes.
Normally as a rule of thumb and because of past tenants doing the flit after one month, a request is allowed only if the tenant has been with us for over 6 months and really no less than 3 months.
I tend to handle it on a case by case situation ;-)
So just three requirements, and we do have to insure that they are met before any consideration is taken to grant the replacement of any estate homes to the one you wish to use instead.
if you feel your request can accommodate the above three requirements, please by all means send me a LM or Market place listing page link, I will be happy to take a look and see.
Houses
Must be approved first by Todalerdale Stine (Owner) or appointed Estate Manager. Do not place a home on the land until it has been approved.
Sky Homes/Platforms
Prims
It is your responsibility to know your usable prim limits and how many you have available at any given time. To assist with this, each rented parcel has a prim counter which can be clicked and reports the number of usable prims you have used/have remaining.
In addition make sure you keep some prims available if possible (32 is ideal). This will allow you to temp rez items such as delivery crates, bags etc that you need to rez in order to receive your items or for when you need to rez your boat for example.
If you enjoy building, then you must rez a platform above 500 metres and build there. Raw prims are unsightly and will be returned if left out under 500m. Mega-prims are not permitted. If you need to rez any then please travel to a Sandbox sim.
5. Residential Zoning & Limitations
The Estate is themed to that of the west coast of Scotland and is residential by default. There are exceptions to this and are subject to agreement with the Estate owner. Residents may not use their rented parcel for business or commercial operations of any kind and includes but is not limited to ‘not-for-profit’ operations. The setup of charity or volunteer organisations must be agreed prior to establishment.
Main points are:
6. Privacy and Security
Privacy
Privacy is something everyone desires at times and this should be respected. Privacy is enabled on all parcels and limits media, voice, gestures, chat and AV visibility to that parcel. Privacy does not stop others from seeing items rezzed in your home and parcel.
Security
Security is provided where appropriate and automatically enabled for residents when they rent a home. This is facilitated by Estate Security systems Alba Security Image. which normally positioned on the outside wall of your rented property. The security box does not extend coverage over water as this is considered public access within the Estate. These comply with LL ToS and will eject an intruder from the land parcel after 30 seconds. Repeat offenders (griefers) will be banned from the Estate. Personal security systems are not permitted in order to ensure consistency and appropriate coverage.
Please keep in mind that other residents or visitors may trigger a security alarm accidentally when walking around and exploring which is why a 30 second warning is issued. Normally they will leave the parcel and either ask to be allowed (guests) or even apologise for the intrusion. You shouldn’t be overly concerned as the security box is doing its job. Always be polite. Should the person be an actual intruder then the system will eject them from the parcel and ultimately ban if repeated entries are tried.
Note: Please note that security orbs are not permitted in Treetop Lodges and will be returned without notice by Estate Staff.
Adding others to Security
Maintaining the Ban-list
There are several ways of adding and removing people in the ban-list and the easiest way to do this is by clicking on the security box, then clicking the “Ban/Unban” button.
You will then be able to add and remove avatars by just clicking on their names in the popup user-interface.
If the avatar is not within range, you can use chat-commands to manual add them:
/7add + name
Example: /7add thomas conover (note not case sensitive)
Key Notes
People passing along the waterways or if above 60 metres in height will not activate the security system.
Alba Estates appointed managers cannot be ejected by the security system. Security orbs/systems not belonging to the Estate will be returned.
Click here for additional information on personal security
7. Scripts
8. Terraforming
This is managed by the Estate owner Douglas Todalerdale Stine and only minor terraforming will be done to smooth land for a build and at the discretion of Douglas Todalerdale Stine.
The following will not be done:
9. Rental Cottage & Houseboat Reclamations
Rentals will be reclaimed by Estate staff if you fail to pay rent on time or ignore/flout items listed in this covenant. A grace period for overdue rents is given at the discretion of the Estate owner. A grace period will not be given if due rent is habitually late.
In the event of reclamation and if you are absent, all objects owned by you will be returned. The Estate owner is not responsible for returned objects failing to appear in your inventory. If returned objects are not in your inventory, you should contact Linden Lab Support directly and not the Estate owner.
Rentals where the rental box has been set to ‘Not Renewing’ and/or in which the renters objects have been removed (renter has clearly left and has not returned in days) will be considered abandoned and will therefore once again be set as available for rent by others.
10. Houseboats
(Where applicable)
Houseboats with roof access are Houseboats with an area for placing items out on the roof and are clearly marked with railings.
Houseboats with roof access on Alba Estates are as follows:
Houseboats without roof access or railings are NOT Permitted to have items on the roof, any found will be removed without warning.
Items not allowed on a Houseboat roof are items such as Christmas trees, Easter Bunnies or large eggs. Please use common sense and keep it realistic. Neither we nor your neighbours wish to see a giant bunny or a tree that is the size of a mountain sat on a Houseboat roof. If you are unsure at all then feel free to ask, don’t wait to be have the object returned and then get upset.
Stop, Think, Ask.
Items on Houseboat roofs must look as if they would in real life, in size as to proportion of the boat.
Hot tubs are allowed on roofs, we prefer them to be on the lower decks, but so long as these are turned OFF (no particles left running) while not in use it's fine.
Hot tubs must look as if they could sit on a houseboat roof, we don’t need to see a hot tub made of brick, stones or rocks on a wooden floating roof.
11. Stand-Alone Regions
(If applicable)
Homesteads
These Regions may be stand-alone and not connected or cut up in to smaller parcels. These are rented or bought as one whole Region and do not have a covenant or theme. The only rule (contract) you have is with Todalerdale Stine and this will be agreed on a case-by-case basis.
12. Failure to Follow Covenant
Failure to follow this covenant will be handled in the following manner:
13. Covenant Updates
We reserve the right to modify and append this covenant as deemed fit. You will not receive notification of minor updates unless something is added or amended that affects you.
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