Apartments

Once you are done exploring all the amazing social spots Avakin Life has to offer you may want to retire to your own private, personal space to wind down or invite friends over to chill out with or host a private party.
Avakin Life has a range of apartments (and houses) that you can choose from, most of which are customizable from wall to floor and all the furniture placement options in between to make each space reflect your personal style.

### Apartment Categories

Apartments in Avakin Life are listed under seven categories;

* New
* Apartments
* Houses
* Outdoor
* Business
* Fantasy
* Transport

### Purchasing Apartments

Buying an apartment in Avakin Life requires Avacoins.
To buy an apartment tap the 'shop' tab in the top menu and select 'Apartments'. You'll be taken to the *Apartments* screen displaying all the apartments by category. Click on each apartment to read its description and view the interior snapshots and of course make your purchase by tapping the 'Buy' button.
If there is a special event, for eg. Halloween, there will be an additional tab at the top next to 'All' that will show all apartments pertaining to that event.

You can also tap the 'Travel' tab, and select 'Apartment Shop' from there.

An alternative way to buy an apartment is from your profile. Simply tap on 'Get More' next to the Apartments label in the stream.

### Apartment Customization

Most apartments in Avakin Life have the 'fully customizable' feature with the exception a small few. You can check whether or not an apartment is customizable by looking for the little roller brush icon. The latest version of Avakin Life will have the roller brush icon with the words *fully customizable* next to it.

### Accessing Your Apartment

Your apartment can be accessed in a number of ways.

1. From the Dressing Room - locate the bottom left menu, tap the house icon with *My Apartments* text next to it
2. From the 'Travel' tab - tap 'My Apartments'
3. From your profile stream under 'Apartments' tap the 'Visit' button with the airplane icon after clicking on the apartment you'd like to visit.

### Setting Up Your Apartment

(For info about setting up the interior with furniture click here, this section will cover setting up apartment info.)

Once you enter your apartment you have a number of options to set up. Clicking the '*i'* icon will open up a menu from which you can name your apartment (pencil icon), set the apartment snapshot (camera icon), personalize the Welcome Message and the Description. You also have access to the rating your place has - seen by the number of stars at the top right corner and the number of times rated in parentheses next to them - and access to the statistics at the bottom which shows the number of Visits and the current Guest Count.

You can also arrow select the following:

* Country - tap the pencil icon to select your country.
* Publish Type - by default your apartment will be set to 'Private' the other options are 'Friends only' and 'Public'.
* Category - Choose between Social Spot, Home, Food, Business, Transport, Leisure, Education, Medical, and None.
* Sub Category - Choose between Club, Music Venue, Party Venue, Bar, Outdoors, and None.

### Benefits Of Owning Apartments

Apartments in Avakin Life are beneficial to leveling up in the game.

* You earn XP from purchasing an apartment
* Most apartments have 7 free furniture items that you can collect each day
* Each apartment generates 10 gems daily which if collected earns you 20xp
* Wow your friends with your spectacular interior design skills when hosting parties or get togethers

### Private Apartments

Apartments set to 'private' can only be accessed by direct invite from the owner.

### Open Apartments

When you tap the *Travel* tab on the top menu two of the options you have are to *Visit Friends' Apartments* and *Open Apartments.*

###### Friends Apartments

Tapping on Friends' Apartments takes you to a page listing all your friends to the left in a scroll down column. Friends with no apartments open to friends will be greyed out. When you tap on a friends name who has an apartment open to friends, a showcase listing of each open apartment will appear on the right.

###### Open Apartments

Open apartments are apartments set by other players to 'Public'. Leaving a rating on open apartments gives you 15xp and the first 5 wins you the I, Rated Achievement Goal plus XP. Visiting open apartments is a great way to meet new friends and get décor inspiration. If just starting out you can earn 50xp for visiting one of the top rated apartments and the Cream Of The Crop Achievement Goal.