Re: [FR] Furnishings in units get deleted
I've been playing a 6-apartment residential rental lot that I built almost since FR came out. I haven't had any issues with it deleting the furniture.
From what you've said, I think you might be trying to convert the venue from residential to residential rental the wrong way. You've said you changed the venue with sims on the lot. I think that's what is causing the furniture to get deleted and might have created other problems you haven't found yet.
So, my suggestion is this: move the household out so the lot is unoccupied and unowned and put them on another lot. Go back to the lot, entering from the map. Change the venue from residential to residential rental and designate the apartments. If you want it all in just 1 apartment, just choose that option. Then exit the lot back to the map. Go back to the household you want to be the owners/landlord and enter the lot in live mode. Have a sim buy the lot. You'll auto travel to it. Just travel back to where the sim was. Now your household is the landlord for the residential rental lot. Since you've chosen to make the entire build a rental, then the landlord will live elsewhere. If you want the landlord to live on the lot, then when you set up the apartments, you'll need to set up a least 2 apartments. Since you're only setting up one apartment, the landlord can't live there.
Use the residential rental panel to get tenants or if you want to use sims of your choice, just move them in using manage households.
Hope this helps.