The Real Estate Metaverse Association -- Remeta -- says it's joined forces with mediation and negotiation company Open Dialogue to help residents of Second Life settle real estate complaints. (Second Life, in case you're hip to blogging without being hep to the rest of the online world, is a 3-D online society.)

Yes. You can now pay a fee to resolve a dispute about real estate that doesn't, in the physical sense of the word, exist.

From the press release:

"Mediation offers the parties an opportunity to resolve their concerns in a respectful, creative way that often keeps the relationship intact afterward," said Ronnie Howell of Open Dialogue. "In contrast, arbitration offers the parties the opportunity to present their concerns to an individual who ultimately renders a decision, much in the same way a judge might do. With both processes the parties are often able to avoid what may be a costly, messy, lengthy, unhappy experience in the judicial system, especially when judicial systems aren't quite sure how to handle virtual world issues yet."