House

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In Tibia, players with a Premium Account have the option to rent a house or shop for storing items and sleeping. Leaders of a Guild also have the ability to rent a Guildhall for everyone in their guild to call home.
See also:
* Building
* the Tibia.com manual on houses.
==Benefits==
Having a house offers many great advantages, here are a few of them:
* Controlling who has access to the house, and who can open/close each door.
* Storing an infinite number of items.
* Being able to sleep in a bed to regenerate Hitpoint, Mana, Soul Points and train your Skills while offline.
* Safely display your items to other players.
* Protection Zone.
* Like real estate in real life, over time houses increase in value. On older servers, you can sell houses for large amounts of money.
* In houses with separate rooms, you can charge other players money to "rent" a room so that they can use a bed.
==Getting a House==
In order to get a house you need a Premium Account and enough money to afford it. Houses are generally more expensive in older worlds. Prices are also A LOT higher in Non-PvP Game Worlds.
There are two ways to get a house. The first way is through an Auction via the Tibia.com houses section or the House tab in the Cyclopedia. The second way is to purchase a house from another player, i.e. a House Transfer. 
Please note that since November 19, 2019 up to three houses per account is permitted. Before this change it was possible to own only one house per world per account. Despite this change, however, only one house transaction (bid or transfer) is possible for each character at a time. 
===Auction===
The amount you can bid is limited to the money you currently have on your bank account, but keep in mind that this amount get reserved in your bank account (that is, you are unable to use it) until someone overbids you or the auction ends. Please note you cannot remove your bid once you make it, however you can lower or raise it. If you win the auction, you will have to pay the winning bid plus the first rent (the money is deducted from your bank account).
If your Premium Account ends during the auction, it will continue normally. However if you win the auction as a Free Account player, you will have to pay the winning bid plus the first rent but you will not get the house (it will be put on auction again). So you should think twice.
The fee for the rent will be debited automatically from your bank account every 30 days, so have sure you have enough money in the bank when the rent is due.
===Transfer===
The other method is to look for other players that are selling their house. You might even offer to buy a house that you want, even if the player is not advertising that it is for sale. Sometimes they might sell it to you. Buying a house from another player is not dangerous since Tibia has a safe method of transferring a house from one character to another.
The seller initiates the transfer by first logging in on the Tibia home page. Then select "Community" > "Houses" and select server and city and find your house. Click the "Move Out" button. Now check "Yes, I want to leave my house", set the transfer date and the receiver of the house and do not forget to set the transfer price. When ready press the "Submit" button. Like the house auction, a house transfer can also be initiated by similar steps in the Cyclopedia. 
Now the buyer needs to login to the Tibia home page or check the house on the Cyclopedia in order to accept the transfer (date, house and price). If the buyer accepts, the transfer will take place after the server save on the specified transfer date. The seller needs to empty the house before the transfer takes place.
The money of the rent will be debited from your bank account at the same date that it was due for the previous owner, and then will be debited every 30 days. If a house is transferred in the due date, the new owner will have to pay this rent while the house is transferred.
==Losing the House==
You will lose your house in the following cases:
* You do not pay the rent within seven days after the rent is due
* Your Premium Account expires
In the case your Premium ends, you will lose the house at the next server save. However you will still be able to transfer the house to another player while you are Free Account (the transfer always happens before the house could be lost, if both are set to happen at the same server save).
In the case of not paying the rent, all characters on your account are excluded from all house auctions for 30 days. During this period, it's not possible to buy houses directly from other players either. Once the waiting time is over, you can bid normally on all houses again.
If you got banished and then cannot login to deposit enough money on your bank account to pay the rent, you can ask for a friend to transfer money to your account. The rent's money will be debited normally from your bank account, whether you are banished or not.
==Managing the House==
Every house owner can manage their house using in-game house spells. The house owner always has ultimate access to the house in every way, but all other characters must be assigned a certain right before they can use it.
Characters that are invited to a house can enter anywhere they can reach. If a door is closed, only those with the right to that door can open/close it. However, if the door is open, anyone with an invitation can enter.
Note: consider "flushing" your house invitation lists every now and then. If one of the invited characters are deleted, their name will not be automatically removed from the invitation list. An informed player may create a character specifically to rob your house.
=== Guest List ===
This list determines who is able to enter the house. Any player on the guest list can enter the house, and can enter any room in the house, but they cannot open or close any doors. Therefore, if the front door is closed, the player will not be able to get in, even if they are invited (see section on Door Access below). Owners and Sub-Owners can edit the guest list by standing in the house and using the aleta sio spell.
=== Sub-Owners ===
Sub-owners of a house have the ability to edit the Guest List and kick other characters out. Owners can edit the list of Sub-Owners by standing in the house and using the aleta som spell. A house may have 10 sub-owners as a maximum.
Note that only Premium players can be active sub-owners and have those special abilities.
=== Door Access ===
Door access lists determine which players are able to open and close specific doors. There is a separate door access list for each door in the house, including the front door. Owners can edit the door access list by facing the door, and using the aleta grav spell. These lists work in the same way as the Guest List.
=== The House Spells ===
These are the house spells to modify the rights to a house. Note that some of these may require an elevated privilege, i.e. only owners can add subowners, only owners and subowners can invite, etc..
Words	Action 	style="text-align:left;"Description
 	Edit guest list 	style="text-align:left;"Edit the list of characters that are invited into the house.
 	Edit sub-owners 	style="text-align:left;"Edit the list of sub-owners of the house. This spell can only be used by the main owner.
 	Kick character 	style="text-align:left;"Replace character with the character's name. This will kick a player out of your house, to the front door. Everyone can cast this on themselves, but sub-owners and owners can cast this on other players within their home. This spell can be used from outside of the house and has unlimited range; you can cast it on the other side of the game world if the character is in a house you have the rights to.
 	Edit door rights	style="text-align:left;"Use this spell while either standing in a doorway or facing the door on either side of one. Edit the list of characters that can open and close the target door. While open, all characters that are on the house's invite list may enter even if they don't have rights to the door.
=== List Syntax ===
The invite list may contain at most 100 lines, and at most 1999 characters of text. Inputting more than this will simply not submit (it will revert to the previous stage). Thus, to invite more players another method must be used. Wildcards can be used to invite characters with similar names, guilds or even ranks of guilds. What follows is a table of symbols used in the guest, door and subowner lists of houses.
Syntax 	Function 	Example 	Matches
String 	Single-character invite 	Relambelia Roarsia 	Relambelia Roarsia
#String 	Comment line 	#My best friend 	(line is ignored)
String* 	Wildcard 	Santor* 	SantorSantoraSantorius
String? 	Single-character wildcard 	Hannibrag? 	HannibragaHannibragsHannibragHannibragius
*@String 	Entire guild invite 	*@The Ruthless Seven 	(all members of the guild named 'The Ruthless Seven')(all members of the guild named 'Followers of Palimuth')
String1@String2	Guild rank invite 	Followers@The Ruthless Seven	(all 'Followers' of 'The Ruthless Seven')(all 'Minions' of 'The Ruthless Seven')
!String 	Single-character excludeUsed for exceptions to wildcards, guilds and guild ranksExact opposite of the single-character invite	!Santoria Plantation 	Santoria Plantation
In the above table, red text indicates select characters that will not be invited or, in the case of an exclusion (!), strictly uninvited.
Always remember to put the exclude list on top of any wildcards that may interfere - the server does not interpret an exclude line after they have been invited, either explicitly or implicitly. That is, it reads the list as it is formatted, top-to-bottom. It can be good practice to put them on the top of the invite list. This will function as a universal exclusion list in case an edit to the list were made.
The symbols above can be combined but some symbols must start at the beginning of a line (#, !).
The question mark (?), marking a single-character wildcard, can be used anywhere in the name, e.g. A?ocalypse would match Apocalypse. They can be used multiple times in the same line, so Or?ha?a?l would match Orshabaal.
The hash (#) is meant to indicate a comment, and you can find one such comment on the top of your invite list, but if you try to input a custom comment, it will be removed when you submit it. It is unknown if this is intended, but in the meantime if you need comments you can use a tilde (~) which counts toward your 100 line limit although no character may have tildes in their name.
The asterisk (*), marking wildcards of infinite length, can be used anywhere in the line and may be used multiple times. In the example Aabaa Aabaa, A*a would match characters beginning with A and ending with A. A*b*a would take that a step further by inviting characters only with a B in the middle somewhere. By leaving a lone asterisk in the begininng of a line you will invite every existing player into the house.
Note that there are risks involved in using wildcards. A character may gain unauthorized entry if the wildcard pattern also matches their character name and they aren't on the exclude list. If the character list wouldn't otherwise change often and the list has less than 100 members, it is much safer to invite single players.
==Decorating the House==
Tibia has many options for decorating your house. Most people like to lay their prized possessions on the floor so that everyone can see how powerful and accomplished they are. Some people use Furniture to decorate their house, and almost everyone has some kind of wall hanging, like a Wall Mirror or a Tapestry. Some people even have more exotic decorations, like Model Ships, Telescopes, Rocking Horses, and Christmas Trees.
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