BlackSparrow wrote: »Housing is, basically, the infrastructure to support the furnishing minigame. You'll start finding furnishing plans and house items every once in a while while playing, which are used to decorate the houses. It's entirely cosmetic, but a chunk of the player base (myself included) has a lot of fun with that, and everyone else is making loads of profit selling furnishing materials and plans to that chunk, so everyone wins.
If decorating in-game houses doesn't sound fun for you, then don't worry about it. Each alliance has a free apartment, if you have alts in that alliance to run the quest. Get those for the free teleports, then never worry about it again.
Not really.does owning a home give any benefit besides a cosmetic thing?