It sounds like some family owns the lot. Even if you are editing from manage neighborhood, if it is an owned property - such as a restaurant - it pulls its funding from that family or that business. You have to add funds to the family: shift+ctrl +c and type money [amount] then fund that into the business or have the family sell that lot before going back to edit it.
What do I do if I’m trying to move a family into a house from creat a sim and it’s saying that the household funds in -$ ?
@s33russell426 You should be able to move the family into any unoccupied house using the FreeRealEstate cheat. Just open the cheat console by pressing CTRL-Shift-C and enter
It would probably be a good idea to give the family some money after they move in, and you can do that using other cheats.
Kaching and rosebud give the fanily 1000 simoleons. Motherlode gives them 50,000. (Also, note the spelling of motherLODE.)
Finally you can use the money cheat for any amount between 0 and the max, which I think is around 99,999,999. I recommend using a fairly small amount, such as you would normally have after moving in a new family, but it's your decision. You will need to put testingCheats on first. TestingCheats is not needed for any ot the other cheats I mentioned. TestingCheats should be turned off after you finish unless you want to keep it on.
