LifeInvader — Ads & Policy Reference Guide

Internal Policy last edited 21st August 2026. Grammar & Format Guide compiled alongside it. This document merges both into one long-form reference for editing and posting ads on LifeInvader.

Table of Contents

1. General Rules & Ad Format
2. Illegal Items & Rejections
3. Real Estate
4. Auto
5. Dating
6. Work
7. Businesses
8. Service
9. Discounts
10. Other
11. Rules of Communication
12. Grammar & Format Guide
13. Master Step-by-Step: How to Edit an Ad on LifeInvader

1. General Rules & Ad Format

LifeInvader ads always follow a fixed action → detail → price/budget structure. Getting this skeleton right is the single most important skill for an editor, because every category (real estate, auto, work, etc.) is just a variation on this same backbone.

1.1 The Four Core Verbs

• "Looking to buy" is always normalized to Buying.
  • Raw: Looking to buy a house → Edited: Buying a house. Budget: Negotiable.
• If the customer doesn't state a price or budget, you must still add the field:
  • Price: Negotiable. or Budget: Negotiable.
• A colon (:) always follows the word Price or Budget — never a dash, equals sign, or nothing.

1.2 The Cross-Category Trading Rule

You cannot edit ads that trade items from two different categories. A car cannot be traded for a house or a business, and vice versa. If a raw ad tries to do this, it must be rejected rather than "fixed" — this is not an editable formatting issue, it's an invalid ad.

1.3 Money Formatting Rules

These are some of the most commonly-missed rules, so read carefully:

1. Dollar sign first. Every numerical value is preceded by $.

2. No trailing period after a number. If the ad ends in a numeric value, do not add a full stop.

   • Correct: Price: $4.000
   • Correct: Price: $4 Million. (ends in the word "Million", so the period stays)

3. Never abbreviate with K or M. Spell out thousands in full, and use the word "Million" for millions.

   Raw	Corrected
   $1k	$1.000
   $10k	$10.000
   $100k	$100.000
   $1m	$1 Million.
   $14m	$14 Million.
   $4.5m	$4.5 Million.

4. Use a period, not a comma, as the thousands separator.

   • Correct: $1.000
   • Incorrect: $1,000

5. Billion-plus values become "Negotiable" — with two exceptions: houses and businesses, which are allowed to display amounts over $1 Billion.

   • Raw: Selling a car. Price 2 Billion. → Edited: Selling a car. Price: Negotiable.

6. Minimum thresholds convert to Negotiable:

   • A house listed under $1 Million → change price to Negotiable.
   • An apartment listed under $2 Million → change price to Negotiable.

1.4 General Editing Notes

• Always cross-check clothing items and vehicles/bikes/planes/helicopters against the clothing list and vehicle list documents for exact naming.
• Brand names and location names must be capitalised (see the capitalisation list in Section 3, Real Estate).
• When a specific quantity of items is mentioned, the number takes a period as its thousands separator, same as money.
  • Example: Selling 1.000 seeds. Price: Negotiable.
• Always double-check the ad is correct before posting.
• Always select the correct category for the ad.
• Trading two items from different categories does not get filed under "Other" — it gets rejected outright (see 1.2 above).
• You are entitled to reject any ad that is improper, incomprehensible, or offensive in any way.
• Some rejected ads must also be blacklisted — see Section 2 below for the specific list and durations.

2. Illegal Items & Rejections

2.1 Rejected AND Blacklisted (with blacklist duration)

These items get the ad rejected and the sender blacklisted for the listed period:

2.2 Rejected ONLY (no blacklist)

These get rejected, but do not trigger a blacklist:

• Specific family names
• Hype Body Armour
• Gangs
• Nationality
• Gods / Admins
• Leaders and deputy leaders of an organisation
• Food items (excluding fish)
• Birthday ads
• Ads with improper format (e.g. selling 2 items of different categories)
• Ads referencing these locations:
  • Mega Mall
  • Gang HQs
  • Black Market
  • Party at LifeInvader (except LI Galaxy Rooftop), LSPD, FIB, SAHP, EMS, Government, National Guard (NG) base or FZ, Capitol, Aircraft Carrier, Power Plant, Farm, ghetto, or any business, beach market
• Grand coins
• Battle Pass
• Weapons case / container
• Defense case / container
• Any dice or illegal gambling ads
• Dangerous razor
• Tracking sensor
• Multiple spam of template/party ads (more than 2 in a row)

2.3 Notes on Illegal Items

• There is a database in the FIB email where you can post blacklisted ads that mention only selling illegal items.
• Party ads should be rejected if the location is one of the forbidden locations above, or if the location is not specified (e.g. no house number, or vague like "Party in Paleto Bay").
• Keep rejections short and professional.

2.4 Ad Limits (applies across categories)

• Max 2 properties per ad.
• Max 1 vehicle per ad.
• Max 1 business per ad.
• Max 3 items per ad (Other category).
• Cannot mix more than one item category per ad.
• Cannot promote illegal items.
• Cannot look for gods.
• Cannot look for leaders/deputy leaders of state organisations.

2.5 Standard Rejection Reasons (copy-paste library)

• Template not found. Please contact LI to create a template.
• Person not found in the database. Please submit proof of existence in the LI emails.
• Item not found in the database. Please submit proof of tradeability in the LI emails.
• Vehicle not found in the database. Please submit proof of tradeability in the LI emails.
• Please provide proof of being tradable.
• Technical issues with the template. Please open a ticket in the LI emails regarding this.
• Template expired. Please open a ticket in the LI emails regarding this.
• Improper or invalid trading advertisement.
• Improper party advertisement.
• Cannot advertise item. (Item_Name)
• Technical issue, please request refund in LI emails.
• Spamming of templates or party ads is not allowed.
• Troll advertisement.
• Improper ad format.
• Cannot look for more than 1 person at a time.

3. Real Estate

3.1 General Rules

• Max 2 properties per ad. Houses are not tradeable.
  • Example: Selling houses №213 and №767. Price: Negotiable.
• If a property number is given, use the № symbol.
  • Example: Selling house №758. Price: Negotiable.
• Garage spaces can only be 2, 5, 9, 25, or 30, abbreviated as g.s.
  • Example: Selling a house with 5 g.s. Price: Negotiable.
• Warehouse spaces can only be 3, 4, or 5, abbreviated as w.h.
  • Example: Selling a house with 4 w.h. Price: Negotiable.
• If a property has insurance, just say with insurance — no need to give a day count.
• Extras that can be included: garden, insurance, view, tennis court, swimming pool, helipad, long driveway, etc.
  • Example: Selling a house with a garden, helipad and swimming pool. Price: Negotiable.

3.2 Mandatory Feature Order

When multiple features are listed, they must always appear in this exact sequence:

1. Family (advanced, elite)
2. Garden
3. Garage spaces (2/5/9/25/30 g.s.)
4. Warehouse spaces (3/4/5 w.h.)
5. Custom interior
6. Insurance
7. Others (helipad, tennis court, long driveway, swimming pool)
8. View (nice, beautiful, great, good view)
9. Location (e.g. in Vinewood Hills, near post office)

Full example:

Selling house №758 with a garden, 30 g.s., 5 w.h., custom interior, insurance, helipad and great view in Vinewood Hills. Price: Negotiable.

Selling an apartment with 9 g.s., custom interior, insurance and a great view in the Casino. Price: Negotiable.

3.3 Custom Interior Rule

• "Custom interior" is allowed if the sender says the property is furnished / has different interiors.
• CAREFUL: You may never mention nationality-themed interiors (Italian interior, Russian interior, Chinese interior, etc.) — strip these out entirely and replace with "custom interior."

3.4 Plural Rules for Multiple Properties

If two houses are mentioned, pluralize:

• garden → gardens
• helipad → helipads
• tennis court → tennis courts
• long driveway → long driveways
• swimming pool → swimming pools

"Insurance" and "custom interior" stay singular (no "s") even with two properties.

Examples:

Selling 2 houses with gardens, helipads, tennis courts, long driveways and swimming pools. Price: Negotiable.

Selling houses №766 and №767 with gardens, 25 g.s., insurance and swimming pools. Price: Negotiable.

Apartments follow the same singular rule for insurance/custom interior:

Selling 2 apartments with 9 g.s., 5 w.h. and custom interior. Price: Negotiable.

Selling apartments №766 and №767 with 25 g.s., 5 w.h. and custom interior. Price: Negotiable.

3.5 Mixed House + Apartment Ads

If the customer mentions one house and one apartment:

Selling a house and an apartment. Price: Negotiable. Buying a house and an apartment. Budget: Negotiable. Buying a house or an apartment. Budget: Negotiable.

Since apartments don't have gardens, only mention selling/buying the house and apartment as a pair — no extras.

You cannot buy a specific house or apartment. If a "buying" ad mentions a property number, strip it to "Buying a house" / "Buying an apartment" — or reject with: "We can NOT buy specific houses/apartments."

3.6 Renting

• Instead of Selling // Price → use Renting out // Rent.
• Instead of Buying // Budget → use Looking to rent // Budget.

Renting out house №758. Rent: Negotiable. Looking to rent a house. Budget: Negotiable.

CAREFUL: "Renting out" = you are giving up your property to someone else. "Looking to rent" = you want to rent a property from someone else. Don't mix these up.

Rent duration can be per day or per week:

Renting out a house. Rent: $200.000 for 7 days. Renting out a house. Rent: $200.000 per week.

3.7 Miscellaneous Real Estate Rules

• Always put two periods on abbreviations g.s. and w.h., even before a comma: "with a garden, 9 g.s., 5 w.h. and swimming pool."
• Never mention the green zone or any gang location/name.
• Use mansion instead of villa.
  • Selling a mansion. Price: Negotiable.
  • Selling mansion №25. Price: Negotiable.
• Use Casino penthouse instead of Casino apartment.
  • Selling a Casino penthouse. Price: Negotiable.
  • Selling Casino penthouse №123. Price: Negotiable.

3.8 Families

General rules:

• Family names must never be mentioned in any ad.
• Only one family per ad.
• Prices must be close to market value; unrealistic/troll pricing results in the price being changed to Negotiable, or the ad being rejected and potentially blacklisted.
• Families cannot be sold with a specific property unless it's clearly a combined deal (house/apartment + family).

Tier pricing reference:

Examples by tier:

• General (no tier): Selling a family. Price: Negotiable. / Buying a family. Budget: Negotiable.
• Level 3 — Advanced: Selling an advanced family. Price: $12 Million. / Buying an advanced family. Budget: $10 Million.
• Level 4 — Elite: Selling an elite family. Price: $18 Million. / Buying an elite family. Budget: Negotiable.

Combined property + family examples:

• Selling a house with a family. Price: Negotiable.
• Selling house №3 with an elite family. Price: $50 Million. (combined price)
• Selling a house with an elite family, garden, 25 g.s. and helipad. Price: $100 Million.
• Selling apartment №1552 with a family. Price: $17 Million.

3.9 Location Capitalisation

Uppercase / capitalised locations (use "at," "near," "in" as shown): Amphitheater №1/2 (party ads only), Auto Salon, Bahama Mamas Bar, Banham Canyon, Business Center, Capitol, the Casino, Cayo Perico Island, Chumash, the Church, Del Perro, Diamond Bar, Downtown Vinewood, Eclipse Tower, El Burro Heights, Fight Club, Hospital/Sandy Hospital, Legion Square (party ads only), LifeInvader, Little Seoul, Mirror Park, Richards Majestic, Richman, Rockford Hills, Pacific Bluffs Country Club, Paleto Bay, Pillbox Hill, Rancho, Sandy Shores, Tequi-La-La Bar, Vanilla Unicorn Bar, Vespucci Canals, Vinewood Hills, the Yacht (party ads only), West Vinewood.

Lowercase locations: airport (business ads only), beach (party ads only), beach market, city (house & business ads only), fire station, ghetto, mall (near/in, business ads only), post office, Residential Complex №1–№8, stadium, train station.

4. Auto

4.1 General Rules

• Max 1 vehicle per ad, unless trading.
  • Selling: Selling "Ubermacht M3 (G80)". Price: Negotiable.
  • Trade: Selling or trading "Ubermacht M3 (G80)" for "Grotti Italia (F458)". Price: Negotiable.
• This category covers cars, motorcycles, planes, helicopters, and boats.
• Brand + model always go in quotation marks ("").
  • Selling "Ubermacht M3 (G80)". Price: Negotiable.
• Always cross-reference the sellable car/motorcycle/boat/helicopter/plane list for correct naming.

4.2 Vehicle Feature Terminology

• Use "in configuration," never "with configuration."
• If insured, just add "with insurance" — no day count needed.

4.3 Mandatory Feature Order (Auto)

1. Configuration (partial or full)
2. Visual upgrades
3. Insurance
4. Tuning parts
5. Turbo kit
6. Drift kit

Full examples:

Selling a car in full configuration. Price: Negotiable. Selling a car in full configuration with visual upgrades. Price: Negotiable. Selling a car in full configuration with visual upgrades and insurance. Price: Negotiable. Selling a car in full configuration with visual upgrades, insurance, turbo and drift kit. Price: Negotiable. Selling a car in full configuration with visual upgrades, insurance, tuning parts, turbo and drift kit. Price: Negotiable. Buying a car in partial configuration with turbo kit. Budget: Negotiable.

4.4 Character Limit Overflow (Last Resort Only)

If the full ad exceeds the 150-character limit and throws an error, simplify by dropping the brand/model quote details or shortening feature lists — but only as a last resort:

Selling "Ocelot Vanquish Zagato SB" in partial configuration, visual upgrades, insurance, tuning parts, turbo and drift kit. Price: Negotiable.

4.5 Electric Cars & Trading

• Electric car ads are allowed: Buying an electric car. Budget: Negotiable.
• If a sender gives no brand, write generically: "Selling a car/motorbike/bike/motorcycle/plane/helicopter/boat."
• If citizens are only trading, do not mention Budget/Price at all:

  Trading "Ubermacht M5 (E34)" for "Ubermacht X7 (G07)".

• If a vehicle isn't found in the list, reject the ad. If the sender provides proof of tradeability, escalate to LI/HC to have the list updated.

5. Dating

5.1 Allowed Ad Types

Only these categories are permitted:

• Looking for a specific person
• Looking for a family
• Looking for family members
• Looking for family diplomacy (replaces "family friends/alliances")
• Looking for friends / a friend
• Looking for a wife / husband
• Looking for a girlfriend / boyfriend
• Looking for a date

5.2 Looking for a Specific Person — Process

1. Require full name (first + last). If missing, reject with: "Please provide full name."
2. Search the name in the Grand RP Discord database (press ENTER if not appearing) or the LI database (Backup City Database channel).
3. Capitalise the first letter of both first and last name (e.g. Olivia Johnson).
4. Check the person's roles — you cannot look for:
   • Admins/gods (EN1 Administrators). Exception: if they hold admin roles on a different server but have the normal "EN | Player" role here, you may look for them. Same logic applies to Project Management, PR Managers, and the Community Manager.
   • Leaders/Deputies of a state organisation.
5. If not found in the databases, reject with: "Person not found in the database. Please contact LI to provide proof of existence."
6. If the client provides proof of existence, post the proof photo in the Backup City Database channel with the name attached, for future searches.
7. If you personally know the person exists but they aren't in the database yet, you may accept the ad and log them into the Backup City Database for others.
8. Only 1 person per ad. Reject multi-person searches with: "Cannot look for more than 1 person at a time."

5.3 Looking for a Family / Family Members

• Never mention a family's specific nationality.
• Looking for a specific family is not allowed.
• Family recruitment ads are not allowed — reject with: "Family recruitment ads are not allowed. Please contact LI to request a service."

5.4 Other Dating Rules

• Looking for an Administration Assistant → allowed.
• Looking for a Leader of an unofficial org → allowed.
• Looking for a leader/deputy leader of a Crime organisation (EN | Crime role) → allowed.

5.5 Blacklisted "Looking For" Ads

• Buying a wife/husband.
• Troll ads (e.g. "looking for a sugar daddy/mommy").
• Looking for a wife/husband with a price/budget attached.
• Any troll name not found in the database.
• Any troll name that's offensive in a foreign language, even if found in the database — inform HC immediately if spotted.
• People looking for themselves.
• Looking for lesbian/gay individuals.
• Looking for sex/a hookup.

6. Work

6.1 Core Verbs

• Hiring (employer looking for workers)
• Looking for a job (worker looking for employment)
• Always use Salary in place of Price/Budget, even if unmentioned:

  Looking for a job. Salary: Negotiable.

6.2 Construction Sites

If a construction site number is given, include location + № symbol:

Hiring workers at construction site №1, on Vespucci Boulevard. Salary: Negotiable. Hiring workers at construction site №2, on Calais Avenue. Salary: Negotiable. Hiring workers at construction site №3, in Pillbox Hill. Salary: Negotiable. Hiring workers at construction site №4, in Mirror Park. Salary: Negotiable.

• Never use the word "level." Use "years of experience" instead.

  Hiring a driver with 3 years of experience at construction site №2, on Calais Avenue. Salary: Negotiable.

6.3 Construction Site Roles (only 5 allowed)

1. Locksmith (replaces "lumberjack")
2. Electrician
3. Land worker (replaces "farmer")
4. Surveyor (replaces "oilman")
5. Driver

Only one role may be advertised per ad.

6.4 Other Permitted Jobs

1. Trucker
2. Lawyer
3. DJ
4. Photographer/cameraman
5. Bodyguard
6. Professional dancer (never "stripper"/"pole dancer")
7. Oil man
8. Gardener
9. Pilot
10. Collector
11. Firefighter
12. Personal assistant
13. Singer

Rate can be specified as per hour or per day:

Hiring a DJ. Salary: $100.000 per hour. Hiring a bodyguard. Salary: $100.000 per day.

Only ONE job per ad. If more than one is mentioned, reject with: "Only one work allowed per AD."

6.5 Work Examples

• Hiring workers at construction site. Salary: Negotiable.
• Looking for work as a trucker with 3 years of experience. Salary: Negotiable.
• Hiring a driver with 3 years of experience. Salary: $10.000 per hour.
• Hiring a gardener. Salary: $40.000
• Hiring professional dancers. Salary: Negotiable.
• Hiring workers for solar panel plantation. Salary: Negotiable.
• Hiring workers for collector job. Salary: Negotiable.
• Hiring a personal assistant. Salary: Negotiable.
• Hiring a lawyer. Salary: Negotiable.

Note: All office, oil well, and farm templates go under the Work category, even though they might sound like "Business."

7. Businesses

7.1 General Rules

• Only one business per ad. More than one → reject with: "Only one business allowed per AD" and note trading of businesses is not allowed — only selling and buying.
• Use "private business" instead of "personal."

  Selling a private business. Price: Negotiable.

• A drug lab business is always referred to as a "Burger Shop" — nothing else.
• "Family business" is an allowed term:

  Buying a family business. Budget: $50 Million.

• If a business number is given, drop the word "business":

  Selling 24/7 Store №27. Price: $60 Million.

  • But when no number is given, keep the word: Buying 24/7 Store business. Budget: $60 Million.
• If a location is given, include it:

  Buying Electric Charging Station business in Sandy Shores. Budget: $60 Million.

• If a client just says "Buying a business," normalize it to "Buying a private business."

7.2 Approved Business Categories (correct capitalisation)

Ammunition Store (not gun/weapon store), ATM, Bar (not strip club), Burger Shop (not drug lab), Chip Tuning, Car Wash, Car Sharing, Clothing Shop (not Binco/Suburban), Cowshed, Electric Charging Station, Farm, Fight Club Bar, Freight Train, Furniture Store (not shop), Gas Station, Grand Elite Clothing Shop, Hair Salon, Jewellery Store, Juice Shop, Oil Well, Parking, Pet Shop, Plantation, Service Station, State Object, Tattoo Studio, Taxi Company, Warehouse, 24/7 Store, Luna Amusement Park.

7.3 Plantation Sub-Rules

Only 3 plantation sizes exist:

1. 10-Bed Plantation business
2. 15-Bed Plantation business
3. 20-Bed Plantation business

Only 4 crop types exist:

1. Cabbage Plantation business
2. Pineapple Plantation business
3. Pumpkin Plantation business
4. Mandarin Plantation business

Examples:

Selling a family business. Price: Negotiable. Selling 10-Bed Cabbage Plantation business. Price: Negotiable. Selling 20-Bed Pineapple Plantation business. Price: Negotiable. Selling 15-Bed Mandarin Plantation business. Price: Negotiable. Selling Cowshed business. Price: Negotiable.

8. Service

• All service ads use templates found in the LifeInvader email, under the "ADs and business templates" channel.
• Service ads promote a specific business/service being provided.
• If a matching template can't be found, reject with: "Template not found in database. Contact LI to create a template."

9. Discounts

• Discount templates also live in the LifeInvader email, "ADs and business templates" channel.
• A discount ad is only classified as Discounts if it explicitly states a percentage (%). If "discount" is mentioned with no percentage, it belongs under Service instead.

Examples:

Chip tuning №4 is offering a 50% discount all day. Call us for discounts. Juice shop №166 is offering 50% off on all juices!

10. Other

10.1 General Rules

• Max 3 items per ad in this category.
• Covers: Clothing/accessories/shoes, bags/backpacks, resources, seeds, fish, containers, pets, tickets, and general items.

10.2 Clothing Ad Word Order

1. Colour
2. Luminous
3. Brand
4. Type of clothing (pants, T-shirt, etc.)
5. "of type"
6. For men/for women

Optional adjectives: professional, luxury, stylish, casual, cheap, affordable.

Substitution rules:

• "Men's / women's" → for men / for women
• "Extra" → of type
• "Rare / legendary" → exclusive / unique

10.3 Quantities

• If a specific quantity of seeds/fruit/etc. is given, there's no need to also say "in bulk."
• Quantities use the period thousands-separator, same as money (e.g. 1.000 seeds).

10.4 Beach Market

• Never mention prices in beach market shop ads.
• "Cheap prices" → rewrite as "for good prices."

Examples:

Selling a variety of items for good prices at beach market shop №27. Selling juices for good prices at beach market shop №21. Selling desert scarf mask for good price at beach market shop №23.

10.5 License Plates

• Max 1 license plate per ad.
• If the plate contains bad/negative/provocative characters, use the generic "special license plate" format instead of showing the actual plate.

Examples:

Selling a special license plate. Price: Negotiable. Selling license plate (1ABC234). Price: Negotiable. Buying a special license plate. Budget: Negotiable.

10.6 Sim Cards

• Max 2 sim-cards per ad.
• Format must be XX-XX-XXX.

Examples:

Selling a sim-card with number 11-11-111. Price: Negotiable. Selling sim-cards with numbers 11-11-111 and 22-22-222. Price: Negotiable.

10.7 Private Market Stalls

• Never mention prices.
• "Cheap prices" → "for good prices."
• Locations must be limited to places approved under the Real Estate category. House numbers (№) are fine if formatted correctly.

Examples:

Selling a variety of items at private market stall next to Paleto Bay Parking. Selling juices for good prices at private market stall next to Pillbox/Sandy Hospital. Selling grand tickets for good prices at private market stall next to house №1332.

10.8 Extended "Other" Examples

• Selling a flag. Price: Negotiable. (or "Selling flag.")
• Buying batteries in bulk. Budget: Negotiable.
• Looking to play poker. Bet: Negotiable. (max bet up to $5 Million)
• Party at house №562.
• Buying pumpkin seeds. Budget: $1.500 each.
• Selling backpack skin. Price: Negotiable.
• Selling a grand ticket. Price: $330.000
• Selling Progen container. Price: $12.000
• Buying Ocelot containers. Budget: $11.000 each.
• Selling unique rims of type 9. Price: $1.1 Million.
• Selling a grand ticket and a luminous stone. Price: $330.000 and $90.000 respectively.
• Selling 5 grand tickets and a luminous stone. Price: $340.000 each and $110.000 respectively.
• Selling 4 grand tickets and 3 luminous stones. Price: $350.000 and $100.000 each respectively.
• Selling license plate (1234567). Price: $500.000
• Selling a sim-card with number 12-34-567. Price: Negotiable.
• Selling fuel canisters. Price: Negotiable.
• Looking to race. Bet: Negotiable.
• Selling Summer 2023 armoured vest skin (V.9). Price: Negotiable.
• Selling neon Summer 2023 armoured vest skin (V.3). Price: Negotiable.
• Selling 10% attack juices. Price: Negotiable.
• Buying 20% protection juices. Budget: Negotiable.
• Selling 25% attack and 25% protection juices. Price: Negotiable.
• Selling a pet poodle, pig and cat. Price: Negotiable.
• Buying a pet rabbit, poodle or husky. Budget: Negotiable.
• Selling neon armoured vest skins with chains (V.1) and (V.2). Price: Negotiable.
• Selling N.E.S.A. pants for men. Price: Negotiable.
• Selling luminous unique rims of type 1. Price: Negotiable.
• Looking for family friends. (Dating category)
• Looking for an opponent for Fight Club. (Other category)
• Party at the Fight Club Bar. (Other category)
• Selling a biospark. Price: Negotiable.
• Pool party at house №100. (Other category)
• Looking for a party. (Other category)
• Looking to arm wrestle. (Other category)
• Selling Monowheel of type 25. Price: Negotiable. (Other category)
• Selling pet treats in bulk. Price: Negotiable. (Other category)

11. Rules of Communication

• Keep your radio on during work by pressing F5.
• Correct colleagues over radio chat/radio when they make a mistake — but this is Senior 1+ only.
• Always use a calm tone when correcting others. Never raise your tone or correct aggressively.
• Corrections exist so mistakes aren't repeated — no one is being personally targeted. Our job depends on flawless public-facing ads.
• Once corrected, reply to acknowledge the correction.
• Use the radio for work purposes only.

11.1 Template Spam Rule

You cannot post ads for the same business/office template back-to-back — that counts as spam. If nothing but templates for one particular business/office are queued, you must wait for 3 other ads to be published first before reposting that same template. If different businesses/offices are being advertised, you may post normally. The only rule: never post the same business/office templates repeatedly without the required gap.

12. Grammar & Format Guide

12.1 "A" vs "An"

Rule of thumb: it's about sound, not spelling.

• "A" goes before a noun with a consonant sound — B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, Z.
  • Examples: battery, campfire, diamond, flag, grand ticket, hookah, juice, kerosene barrels, luminous stone, map of Los Santos, new year gift, pet, repair kit, solar panel, thread, video card, wire.
• "An" goes before a noun with a vowel sound — A, E, I, O, U.
  • Examples: animal skin, elixir, ingrand container, oil barrel.

Base examples:

Selling a repair kit. Price: Negotiable. Buying an animal skin. Budget: Negotiable. Trading a video card for an oil barrel.

12.2 Exceptions

"H" words — depends on whether the "h" sound is pronounced:

• Pronounced "h" (hat, hotel) → use "a."

  Selling a hookah. Price: Negotiable.

• Silent "h" (honor, hour, honest) → use "an."

  Selling an hourglass. Price: Negotiable. (illustrative — item may not exist in-game)

"U" words — depends on whether it sounds like "you" or "uh":

• Sounds like "you" (user, usual, utilized) → use "a."

  Selling a unique love container. Price: Negotiable.

• Sounds like "uh" (unusual, understanding, utter) → use "an."

  Selling an umbrella. Price: Negotiable. (illustrative — item may not exist in-game)

12.3 Singular & Plural Nouns

Standard rule — add -s:

house → houses, pet → pets, snowball → snowballs

Nouns ending in s, x, z, ch, sh — add -es:

bus → buses, box → boxes, leash → leashes

Consonant + y — drop the y, add -ies:

ruby → rubies, battery → batteries, city → cities

12.4 Irregular Nouns

Irregular plurals:

elf → elves, woman → women, man → men, mouse → mice, wife → wives, scarf → scarves

Same form singular/plural (never add "s"):

carp, copper, dice, fish, fuel (for resource extraction), milk, salmon, metal, timber

Always-plural-only nouns:

fireworks, binoculars, brakes, earplugs

12.5 Compound Item Names — Pluralisation

Critical rule: when an item name is made of 2+ words, only the second word becomes plural — not the first.

12.6 Disclaimer

This grammar guide covers general rules. There will be edge cases where the rules above don't cleanly apply — when in doubt, ask a Head of Category (HC) how to properly edit that specific ad rather than guessing.

13. Master Step-by-Step: How to Edit an Ad on LifeInvader

This is the full walkthrough an editor should mentally run through, top to bottom, every single time a raw ad comes in — regardless of category.

Step 1 — Read the Raw Ad Fully First

Do not start editing mid-read. Read the entire raw submission once, in full, so you understand:

• What the sender actually wants (sell, buy, trade, hire, rent, look for someone).
• How many items/properties/vehicles/people are involved.
• Whether anything in it looks illegal, offensive, or troll-like.

Step 2 — Identify the Category

Decide which of the 9 categories the ad belongs to: Real Estate · Auto · Dating · Work · Businesses · Service · Discounts · Other · (or a straight rejection).

If the ad mixes two categories (e.g. a car AND a house), this is an automatic rejection — do not attempt to split or merge it (Section 1.2).

Step 3 — Run the Illegal/Blacklist Check First

Before any formatting work, scan the raw text against the Section 2 lists:

• Is this a rejected-and-blacklisted item (weapons, drugs, ORG items, scanners, etc.)? → Reject and blacklist for the listed duration, then stop.
• Is this a rejected-only item (family names, nationality, forbidden locations, gambling, etc.)? → Reject, no blacklist, then stop.
• If clean, proceed to Step 4.

Step 4 — Check Quantity Limits

Depending on category, confirm the sender hasn't exceeded:

• 2 properties (Real Estate)
• 1 vehicle (Auto, unless trading)
• 1 business (Businesses)
• 3 items (Other)
• 1 job (Work)
• 1 person (Dating)
• 1 license plate / 2 sim-cards (Other)

If exceeded, reject with the matching standard reason (Section 2.5) — e.g. "Only one business allowed per AD."

Step 5 — Normalize the Core Verb

Convert whatever phrasing the sender used into the correct standard verb:

• "Looking to buy" → Buying
• "Want to sell/get rid of" → Selling
• "Want to swap/exchange" → Trading
• "Need workers/staff" → Hiring
• "Want a job as..." → Looking for a job
• "Want to rent my place out" → Renting out
• "Want a place to rent" → Looking to rent

Step 6 — Apply Category-Specific Terminology Substitutions

Run the raw text through the substitution table for that category:

• Real estate: villa → mansion, Casino apartment → Casino penthouse, garage/warehouse counts → g.s./w.h.
• Auto: max config → full configuration, body kit → visual upgrades, engine/suspension upgrades → tuning parts, turbo/drift box → turbo and drift kit.
• Work: lumberjack → locksmith, farmer → land worker, oilman → surveyor, "level X" → "X years of experience," stripper → professional dancer.
• Businesses: personal business → private business, drug lab → Burger Shop, gun/weapon store → Ammunition Store, Binco/Suburban → Clothing Shop.
• Other: rare/legendary → exclusive/unique, men's/women's → for men/for women, extra → of type.

Step 7 — Reorder Features Into Mandatory Sequence

If the category has a fixed feature order (Real Estate or Auto), rearrange whatever order the sender wrote them in into the official sequence:

• Real Estate order: family → garden → garage spaces → warehouse spaces → custom interior → insurance → others → view → location.
• Auto order: configuration → visual upgrades → insurance → tuning parts → turbo kit → drift kit.

Step 8 — Apply Grammar Rules

• Choose a/an correctly based on sound, not spelling (Section 12.1–12.2).
• Pluralize correctly, remembering the compound-word rule: only the second word of a two-word item pluralizes (Section 12.5).
• Capitalise brand names and any location from the approved capitalisation list (Section 3.9).
• Put vehicle brand/model names in quotation marks.

Step 9 — Format the Price/Budget/Salary/Rent/Bet Field

• Choose the correct field name for the category: Price (selling), Budget (buying), Salary (work), Rent (renting), Bet (games).
• Add a colon after the field name.
• Add $ before any number.
• Convert K/M shorthand into full numbers or "X Million."
• Use periods, not commas, as separators.
• Apply the Negotiable override rules for amounts under/over the relevant threshold (Section 1.3).
• If nothing was stated, default to Negotiable.

Step 10 — Cross-Reference the Databases

• For vehicles: check the sellable car/motorcycle/boat/plane/helicopter list.
• For clothing/items: check the clothing list document.
• For specific people (Dating): check the Grand RP Discord and the LI "Backup City Database" channel.
• If not found anywhere, reject using the matching standard rejection reason and ask the sender for proof.

Step 11 — Final Read-Through

Before posting, re-read the fully edited ad one more time and confirm:

• The category is correct.
• The verb, price field, and formatting are all correct.
• The feature order (if applicable) is correct.
• No illegal items, blacklisted terms, or excess quantities slipped through.
• Grammar (a/an, plurals) is correct.
• The character limit is respected (fall back to the shortened last-resort format only if truly necessary — Auto category).

Step 12 — Post or Reject

• If everything checks out, post the ad in its final, corrected format.
• If anything fails at any step above, reject with the short, professional, standard rejection reason — and apply a blacklist duration if the item/category calls for one (Section 2.1).

Step 13 — When In Doubt

If a raw ad presents an edge case not clearly covered by any rule above (unusual grammar, an item not on any list, an ambiguous category), do not guess — ask a Head of Category (HC) before posting or rejecting.

End of document. This guide consolidates the LifeInvader Internal Policy (21 August 2026 revision) and the Grammar & Format Guide into a single reference for ad editors.