Bonaire Estates emphasizes
comfort, tranquility, nature, harmony and hospitality. Standing out for its credibility
and professionalism, Bonaire Estates accumulates 5 years of experience in the Estate
market and owns the expertise to guide residents through the right choice. More
than an Estate Agency it is a gateway to the realization of our dreams.
Master in designing and
landscaping, Bonaire Estates consolidates a wide variety of settings that serve
all tastes and excels in unique residential and commercial plots, homesteads
and full regions with extraordinary natural landscapes and naturally inspired
getaways at the heart of an unparalleled multi-regional Venue.
175 Sims, a fully dedicated team
of professionals, a crew of Estate Managers who provide 24/7 support, an active
and committed community, regular events held on common ground, leisure
and recreational spaces conducive to the practice of
sports such as water sports on one and a half million square meters of usable
water, horse riding trails, bike riding among
others, are solid reasons to choose Bonaire Estates as your second home
or business space.
SLE sat down with Pup
Witherspoon, owner of Bonaire Estates in partnership with Milano Ferrentino, to
know more about their offer:
SLE: How long has Bonaire Estates Been in the
Business?
Pup
Witherspoon: Milano and I started Bonaire Estates in 2008, with 1
full sim and 2 homesteads. The first full sim was Marbella, where our Caribbean
Harbor Club and Sales Center are located now.
Milano and I were standing there the other night after an event, talking
about how much we've grown, and what our plans are for the next 5 years.
SLE: What facilities do you offer to residents?
Pup
Witherspoon: as far as facilities, we of course have all the
usable water and at the Caribbean Harbor Club docks, we have jet skis and wind
surfers and catamarans plus any resident whether they live in this residential
group or on a standalone sim can come to the club and rez their personal water
toys and enjoy all the great space. We have residents with sea planes and hot
air balloons, any number of cool vehicles.
With all this usable common space over 40 sims, it's a great area to
really have fun with things like that. We
also have a couple other small continents, almost entry level spaces for
residents who need to watch their budget, but we still make those very enjoyable.
We have a tuscan themed area, with its own little vineyard and common space,
and just this week we opened up the first of the holiday spaces with a skating
rink. More of those to come!
SLE:
Could you tell us about the Bonaire Estates Crew?
Pup
Witherspoon: We're a nest of techies here, which is actually a
good thing because our crew understands the underlying structures, and between
the group, we have a wide array of skill sets, knowledge of various viewers,
and we understand the issues our residents have because of their own personal
configurations, equipment, operating systems, etc Crazed is my lead estate
manager, and my windows 8 expert and mesh builder. Rhotis Paine is my General
Manager and is a Unix expert and knows a great deal about hardware
configurations. We're all very up on windows and I have one really good MAC
user. So no matter what our residents are using as their platforms, we're able
to assist them. We don't limit our support to just land issues because that
doesn't provide the experience we want our residents to have, so we deal with
the viewer issues, and the graphic card questions and even help if someone
wants to upgrade or change their PC by helping them spec a better machine. Plus
we do all the normal day to day stuff. Suzanne Piers is our Events Manager and
she helps coordinate all that, plus she offers a variety of planning services
from simple events to full blown weddings.
SLE: What makes Bonaire Estates different from
other real estate agents?
Pup
Witherspoon: I think it's the underlying dedication to resident
services. Everyone who works here understands that taking care of the residents
is job number one here, wait time to get an estate manager to come help with
something is about 10 minutes. We check every single sim 3 times a week, we
look for issues, we do performance testing, look at script time, colliders,
anything that shouldn't be there, we check to make sure the parcels are
properly set so that a griefer can't come in and rez crap or mess with the
terraforming. With a new resident, we check in on them 3 times their first week
here, first time the day after they move in, because we want them to realize
we're just an IM away, we want them to get settled in comfortably without
issues, and the only way for a new resident to understand the level of service
they get here is for us to be proactive about it. Doing all that means our
residents generally don't run into lag issues, because we're restarting the
sims every couple days, we're looking for things that cause excessive lag,
we’re circumventing the issues with the memory leak that's grid wide by staying
on top of the sim performance. No one wants to log in, land at home and
discover that their avatar won't rez properly or feel like they're walking
through molasses and anything we can do to eliminate those issues; we try to
do, not by reacting to them when they happen, but by trying to keep them from
happening at all. Everyone I hire understands this coming in the door.
.
SLE: Are you currently hiring new staff?
Pup
Witherspoon: we are currently looking for 1 or 2 estate managers. I
have a classified ad in my profile on that.
SLE: What land is currently available for sale?
Pup
Witherspoon: The land that is for sale is best viewed either at our
land center, or on our website at http://bonaireestates.net/ or Marketplace
at https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/141284. We have it
set up at the land center with pictures on boards in groups; Resident areas and standalone homesteads and
further broken down by type (Sand, Grass, Snow) so it's easy for folks to find
exactly what they're looking for. The
pictures there are also on the website and SL Marketplace along with price,
prim count and an SLURL to make it easy for folks to find exactly the type of
space they want.
SLE: Could you tell us about the common ground?
What kind of events do you hold there?
Pup
Witherspoon: We do about 15 a week at the Caribbean Harbor Club,
Live musicians, a variety for all music tastes. The club really is part of the
community and the events are open to anyone in SL, so it's a good opportunity
for someone to come and check us out. Usually we have a mix of residents and
folks who don't live here but it gives someone who's considering moving to
Bonaire the chance to visit, even talk to our residents. I think folks on the
grid are getting smarter, and doing a bit more research into estates before
they make a change, so it's smart to come and wander a bit, attend an event or
two, talk to some of the residents at the events, get a good picture of how
they feel about living here. Along with the standard events we do some special
things. Right now we're gearing up for the holidays so I've been building this
week, some goodies for the residents to have for the holidays. I just picked up my Toys for Tots Donation
Jar so I can put that out for our residents and friends to donate to when they
pick up their goodies. We had a party end of September for my birthday, a big
two sim blowout. Masked Ball in the Woods was the theme and we raised 25,000
for Feed a Smile. On the weekend of Dec
14-15 we have our Christmas Parade of Homes and events.. We also do a snow
changeover, which is actually starting to happen now. Each sim votes whether to
go snow for the holidays, and when to make the changeover, and when to swap
back.
SLE:
What are some of the community guidelines?
Pup
Witherspoon: We do show residents how to lock their house down so
they don't accidently take the front porch off trying to pick up a chair. We do
have one rule here, if you sail or boat or Jet Ski through someone's house accidently
be polite and wave. And if you grab a beer out of the fridge as you sail thru
the kitchen, please leave a Linden on the counter. We have a good time in group
chat. Whenever an estate manager comes on duty the first thing they do is get
into group chat and say hi, I'm your EM on duty for the next few hours and that
usually generates a lively conversation. Each EM has their own style. Crazed
has a quote of the day, something thought provoking, I usually pop in with
something silly. We all have fun here, that’s why we're in SL.
SLE: How can non-residents be notified about future
events? Do you have a group to make announcements?
Pup
Witherspoon: We do have a
group for non-residents who wish to be notified of our events - it's the
Bonaire Beach & Grotto Nightclubs group and opens for anyone to join. Our estate groups are by invitation only.
SLE: How
can people contact you for further information?
Pup
Witherspoon: Folks can
contact me either via IM (My IM's go to email if I'm not on line) or
notecard. We also have a facebook
account for Bonaire Estates and a subscribomatic at the club for folks who want
to be notified about what's going on and don't have a free group.
SLE: Thank you so much Pup for your
participation.
Do visit Bonaire Estates and discover
the right place to call your own and live, relax and enjoy the best that Second
Life has to offer. For further info visit the website at http://bonaireestates.net/
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