I got to level 16 (that's in a week!) and have 1 gold.
In other news, AOL have blocked this server for mail since some muppet decided to mark everything they received from the villa mailing list yesterday as spam. I can't be bothered to jump through AOL's hoops to fix it, so no-one from an AOL account can receive mails from my services. I am thinking of blocking their web access to my servers too.