Re: into the future will not let you buy a house

@THEladyhoss  The usual path is to use the phone and select Real Estate & Travel Services > Buy Future Home.  If that's not working, go to Edit Town and make sure there's at least one residential lot that's designated as player-ownable.  If there is, try changing the zoning on all such houses to something else and then back again.

Then save, quit, delete the five cache files in your game folder (in Documents\Electronic Arts), and reload.  These cache files should be deleted regularly anyway, and while you're troubleshooting, every time you quit the game.  For reference, they are:

• CASPartCache.package
• compositorCache.package
• scriptCache.package
• simCompositorCache.package
• socialCache.package