Democratize Access to Decentraland for Renting, Marketing, and Hosting Events This proposal has been ENACTED by a DAO Committee Member (0xfe91c0c482e09600f2d1dbca10fd705bc6de60bc) Vesting Contract Address: 0x5a590260cd53b68f3634e5fbfd5a813aa3584a2c [View Transaction](https://etherscan.io/tx/0x805f395630fbdbe319ac184b9354eab42f5b7ffd35a362c40ffba7a8cbe1cc32)

Democratize Access to Decentraland for Renting, Marketing, and Hosting Events This proposal is now in status: PASSED. Voting Results: * Yes 65% 1,435,076 VP (56 votes) * No 35% 794,649 VP (6 votes)

love it! small grant, working prototype, and would use this eventually. voted yes

We created a video too to better illustrate our vision: https://youtu.be/ngsCnd4NN5s

Hey Parzival, Yes, because we only have a limited number of properties listed currently, we've been able to manually verify the ownership and speak with our customers, but in the new website that we're proposing, a ratings/review system will take care of this. A new landlord who has not rented before will have some restrictions to ensure that they are genuine such as access to payment only after the rental is completed or not getting full visibility on our platform. Once a single transaction is successfully facilitated, they will have full access to everything! Otherwise, we will verify that the listings meet our standards and that the land owners are who they say they are to the best degree we can.

Hey, the project seems pretty intresting. But are you guys validating that the user who wants to rent out a parcel actually owns it?

Okay but the very fact that these websites exist makes the use cases sensical. We want to lessen the dependency on the websites you have mentioned and have customers directly work out their land needs with customers. For the birthday thing, it was a generic example but what we meant by that was that the land owner would offer to clients to customize the land for making it more usable for birthdays or some other event. They would already have a picture sample of what it would look like and the customer would deal with them to turn the land into what was in the sample. I think we have a difference of opinion as to what might be the best way to approach the land owner but I am not trying to convince you that one way is better than the other, just want you to see reason in accepting the fact that our option is also pretty feasible :)

okay but in that case the use-case you're proposing is nonsensical. 1. A production company wants to promote their upcoming film on someone’s land, they would like to directly ask the land owner to put up a poster or some other graphic on a particular asset on the land, for instance, a billboard. Or basically, any other company looking to advertise or market their product’s info on someone’s land. why would the person wanting to advertise not simply contact adshares, versadex, et al and access a fully formed and well made ad-network built for DCL? 2. A family wants to celebrate a birthday party or some other similar event in DCL, they want to use an existing parcel/estate without any changes and all they require is the land owner’s help to let them host the event. if a family wants to celebrate a party they don't need anyone's permission. they can simply log into genesis plaza, or a casino, or anyone's land, or a road, or a district - if they're not making changes to the land what is required to contact for hosting?

Thanks for sharing it, but again, this is different from what we are working on! From the code, it seems that it has much more in common with projects like Landworks and Double. We're trying to build a project for use cases that don't necessarily require a transfer of any permissions, we want to make DCL accessible to those who might not even have a wallet. This functionality will in fact help us because it simplifies the 'renting' part for land owners. We want to solve the problem of getting people to rent or use the land as opposed to facilitating the renting. Happy to discuss it on a call :)

check it out: https://github.com/decentraland/rentals-contract

Hey, so we've spoken offline too but just to reiterate over here: 1. Decentraland is not super accessible for anyone who is not into crypto. We want to create a website that lets anyone connect with land owners and utilize their land in the simplest possible manner. So, everything we're trying to bring is new - you've cited landworks and we appreciate what landworks is doing but we are not even remotely trying to become like them, we believe a smart contract based service is honestly unnecessary when DCL directly allows you to let anyone build on your land. 2. This has been deliberate actually, we saw more land owners uploading 3d images of their land and wanted to encourage this trend and give them the flexibility on what image they want to provide in their post. 3. I'm not sure what you're referring to, Decentraland doesn't have an official rental platform. But anyway if you read the grant in detail we’ve talked about how we want to move away from rentals to a peer-to-peer marketplace. I really really encourage you to reread the grant and evaluate us on the basis of the results we have generated as opposed to how innovative we appear. Thanks!

voting no for three reasons: 1. but for a rating system, what are you bringing that's new? landworks seems like a better choice and covers more use cases 2. i think i commented on the map display issues for DCL properties on your site the very first time I saw your URL in the land channel and to this day they haven't been addressed. that seems like a huge red flag in terms of development speed / organization 3. the rental contract from DCL is in the final stages of testing and as I understand will be coming out soon