UO Second Age

Yep. Once again, the actions of a few jerks hurt the rest of us. I'm not a programmer, so don't know why OSI can't just code in a price on a deed so that you resell it for what you paid.

Real Estate Brokers On Strike? - Jun 12 2001, 8:37pm - http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.computer.ultima.online/browse_thread/thread/ac10a96a4a582ab5/e070a0b04b04ff81?lnk=gst&q=real+estate+broker#e070a0b04b04ff81 wrote:not on strike. it was a nice little bug that has been out for quite a while.
just recently went public though, and was fixed almost immediatly. what you
would do is buy all the deeds the archetect has on him. after you get down to
only about 8-10 deeds, the prices start going up on them. if you bought the
last 8-10 deeds at one time you would pay the face value for them. when you
sold those to the real estate broker you would get great profits on each one.
only thing is that it takes money to make money. needed to have at least a mil
to start out. when you got up to the 10 mil mark you could start making profits
of 3-4 mil each time you bought the vendor out. i know one guy who made over
100 mil in one night. have heard reports of people making over a billion.

Derrick wrote:It was my understanding that the price was recorded. I don't know what that belief at the time was based on, but the selling of deeds was apart from regular vendor sale mechanics. Insituted in March 1999:
http://wiki.uosecondage.com/?title=Ulti ... 03/28/1999

While it's possible what is described above as "quite a while" could mean that it went back to T2A; there is certainly no chance whatsoever that this would be implemented even if deemed "accurate". If would be more interesting to know if there was a discount to the sell price prior to this change in 2001 (described as 20% at that time).

• Buy houses from one specific row of deeds allowing the final deed to inflate to a higher price.
• Go to a real estate broker and say "appraise".
• Target the last deed bought with the much higher inflated price.
• Broker establishes the price of the selected house deed for brokering temporarily storing the data of it(price & deed type).
• Drop the deed that was bought with the original starting price and get the "appraised" value of the other deed instead of the one you actually sold.
• ++Profit
• Rinse & repeat.

Cataclyst wrote:What exactly are our prices on the houses based off of anyway? Is there an archived page I'm failing to find, or are we going off of stratics?

Jorel wrote:For some reason i remember taking a hit if you wanted to sell a deed back to the vendor. Maybe it was a different time era or i may just be off my rocker

Apr 19, 1999 - http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.computer.ultima.online/browse_thread/thread/ecaff68bce06b30a/588fb3ae7797267d?lnk=gst&q=real+estate+broker#588fb3ae7797267d wrote: I got the full price. I even bought a large brick house (reason I sold
my small one), tried all day to place it and sold it back for the full
purchase price so I guess the broker system works now. This was in
Britain. Note that pre-patch deeds are still stealable so use caution.

Sep 14, 2000 - http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.computer.ultima.online/browse_thread/thread/7630c5ef0af5a357/3f5ac50a94009e5f?lnk=gst&q=real+estate+broker#3f5ac50a94009e5f wrote: You can sell the deed back with no money loss. Unlike other items, when you
sell a house deed to a real estate broker, you get the same amount you paid
for it. However, sometimes vendors run "specials" and sell deeds at a
reduced rate. And if you buy your deed at that reduced rate, and the price
goes back UP later on, you still only get the amount YOU paid for it when
you sell it to the real estate broker.

Oct 11, 2000 - http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.computer.ultima.online/browse_thread/thread/5ac39566ac8020a1/e7dbfe62f09441ba?lnk=gst&q=real+estate+broker#e7dbfe62f09441ba wrote: With one other thing added. You can save yourself from losing money by
re-deeding the first house. Then take the deed to a real estate broker (In
carpentry shops) and sell it back to him. You'll get the same amount of
money for this deed that was orginally paid to aquire it. You can do it at
any time before or after the house is condemned but before it collapses.
Once it collapses, you can not get the deed back.

Kreskn - Jun 15, 2000 - http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.computer.ultima.online/browse_thread/thread/91cb77015049c760/0c7f4f1708c9dd40?lnk=gst&q=real+estate+broker+bug#0c7f4f1708c9dd40 wrote:

Richard Cortese wrote:I posted about all the housing being the same high price, but I just happened to check and found one in Moonglowthat was 10% off all prices

Several weeks ago, I purchased a marble patio deed for a low
price in SB. Later that day I sold it for a "Higher!!" appraised price in Yew. I couldn't believe it so I tried it again. Yup, bought low, sold high. Sorry to annoy everyone, but I reported the bug.
Ahem..... I kept the extra cash though *grin*