SURF FESTIVAL III UPDATE July 23-31

From Mick Lunasea:

Contact Syx Toshi, Sponsor Manager for sponsor info. Sunshine Zhangsun is Exhibition Manager. Colleen Brennan and Lissa Sands (Lissa Pinion) are Co Publicity Managers.

Mick

GO SURFING :)

SURF FEST III 2011

Hi all,

Mick and Rev are hard at work preparing for Surf Fest. While they're busy with that I've volunteered to work on sponsorships and general money stuff. So here is a call for sponsorships. As you all know the point behind Surf Fest is first and foremost the stoke and good time we all have there, but there is a financial aspect to it too. My goal is to have a minimum of L$1500 for a sponsorship. What you will get is you Logo and ability to give objects and landmarks in the sponsor areas. Second I will post all sponsors at Monkey Cove for a year until next Surf Fest Rolls around. Finally you'll be a part of keeping Surf Fest going for next year!

Please remember this is a minimum if you'd like to donate more please do! I'm matching all sponsorship donations up to L$100,000.00

COMING JULY SURF FEST III

Second Life 8th Birthday Celebration

As you may know Second Life turns 8 years old in June. This month SL will be opening up its Exhibit Sims to the public. There you can see the best Second Life has to offer. I am lucky enough to have and exhibit there located at "Electrify 25" Heres a sneak peek at what I'm working on.

Tough Call

This is a companion to the Business of surfing series I'm doing here. Just to give you some perspective on the types of issues that come up when you rent parcels to the great people here in SL. At Monkey Cove I use the Rent/Buy model, which allows the tenant to have almost as much control over their parcel as I do. This is a great way to go because you don't have to do a lot of maintenance on the parcel once its rented/bought.

I have a small waiting list at Monkey of people that want a spot when one comes available, well to make a long story short a very nice parcel became available and the out going tenant wanted to hand it off to a friend, against my better judgment I did this. Not a great decision by me.

Well the new tenant did and awesome build, beautiful in fact, but there were a few problems; ie fencing off access across the sim boundary and building a physical barrier in the water. The second is strictly prohibited in the covenant. Well needless to say the neighboring parcel owner was not happy. This I could handle, just one person. Unfortunately more complaints came in and I was forced to make a decision.

My choice was to revoke the new tenants lease and satisfy my long term residents or just tell everyone that what's done on an owner's parcel is their business.

I revoked his lease and paid him all the money he put into the rent even the used portion.

I was very unhappy in making this decision, but this is why I did it; The residents that complained had been some of my very first residents, they had gone through the ups, downs and changes in the way I do business. I felt a loyalty to them that was more important then being totally fair and objective. The new tenant was really angry, and I don't blame him, but ultimately I had to do what was right for the existing residents and my business.