"simlady36;12895616" wrote:
hi i was wondering if i could bend the rules a little and put my sim in a starter home and eventully move my family into the most expensive lot in town with out cheating to get money
Nobody is going to arrest you or take away your game for not following the rules. But if you do that, you aren't really playing a Legacy, are you?
Part of the challenge is that you don't have any money to begin with - that you can't even put a roof over your Sim's head. If that isn't your thing, then go ahead and start where you want. It's is just a challenge, something to have fun with. The minute it stops being fun is the minute you should stop playing that way.
On the other hand, if you want to follow the rules AND have a roof over your Sim's head you can try using exdemon1120's tutorial here: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/76289.page
It is for TS3, but it might work for TS4 as well.
Hope this helps