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THINGS I WISH I'D KNOWN EARLIER - Inn Rooms and Housing

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* When you reach your starting hamlet, speak to the Innkeeper. He or she will give you a quest to rent an inn room. Once you step into the room, you will receive a couple pieces of furniture and a merchant board. You can also buy a merchant board from any general goods vendor and place it in your inn room. This will allow you to use the broker from your home.

* The highest default access to your house is visitor, which will basically allow anyone to come in and buy things from your vendor boxes without paying broker fees. You can choose to set specific people to friend or trustee. Be careful with this! Trustees can help pay your rent if they like, but they can also remove and/or destroy your furniture, pets, and other household items.

* You can rotate furniture when placing it in your inn room by using the mouse wheel when moving it. You can use this function to line up books, place chairs the correct way under your tables, etc. If you do not have a mousewheel, you can use the + and - keys on your numberpad to rotate your furniture.

* You can take a tour of houses in the cities by right clicking the door and selecting tour. You can also visit other people's furnished houses by right-clicking on the door, selecting "visit", then picking a person from the list. Some of the expensive houses are really cool (and a lot of players take great pride in how they furnish them).

* If your rent is past due you cannot enter your house, but none of the items inside will be lost as long as you do not relinquish ownership. Also, once past-due, rent will not continue to accrue. So whether your inn-room rent was due 3 days ago or 3 weeks ago, it's still 5 silver to get back in.

* If you are paying for part of your inn room with personal status, you can reduce the status cost by outfitting your room with player-crafted furniture, store-bought pets, and some quest rewards. In theory, it is possible to reduce the status cost to 0 status points per week. It is not possible to reduce coin costs.

* Your basic inn room can hold 100 items and has 2 vault and merchant slots. To hold more items and get more slots, you need to move to a bigger room. Most books do not count towards the item total.

* If you relinquish your basic inn room before it is time to pay rent on it, you can buy another basic inn room for free and get a fresh 7 days. This saves you from having to pay the 5 silver rent. Note that you will have to collect all your items from the inn room (which can be done by right clicking on the door from within your inn room and selecting "collect contents"). Anything you do not collect will be destroyed when you relinquish your room.

* To access your house vault, enter your inn room, right click on the door or market board, and choose Access House Vault. You can put boxes in these slots to increase your storage.

* House vaults are particularily useful for two things: 1) Storing furniture you do not wish to display in your current room, and 2) Temporarily storing items that you are trying to sell that you do not have room for in your store. If you have a crafting station in your home, they are also useful for storing crafting supplies.

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