There are three ways that you can acquire property - Renting, Leasing or Buying it.

Renting is the cheapest way to get your hands on a home or business - but you have to keep paying the rent each month, if you ever stop paying, you lose your property. The advantage is, that if you want to move to a bigger and better property, it's easy to do so. Better still, the rent is covered by your 'Cost of Living' payments. The amount of rent charged will depend on the size of the property, the size of the settlement, and the area that you rent in. Larger properties cost more, cities are more expensive than towns and some districts are in more demand than others.

Rent will be calculated by counting the number of 5' squares in the property (over all floors) and multiplying that by the rate shown on the following table.