Sorry if this is an already reported bug, I have searched and I've not found anything, but it might just be me wording my search wrong.
I have just purchased Businesses & Hobbies yesterday, and I am playing with a starter household I made. I wanted one of my sims to befriend the townie tattoo artist (Nia Sarpong), so I went to visit her house. As she runs a small business in her home, when you click on her lot via the map there are two options - visit the Sarpong household, and visit Spilled Neon (the tattoo studio). I chose to visit the household, but upon arriving I am unable to access her house. The residential front door to the left of the lot is greyed out when I click on it, saying 'This area is off limits to customers', despite me being a guest, not a customer. I can access the business, pay at the ticket kiosk, request a tattoo once she comes downstairs etc. But I just can't access her home, ie. the rooms marked 'residential', even though that is the option I chose. The game is acting as if I am visiting her business, when that was not the option I clicked on.
Weirdly enough, when I went to visit the other residentials with small businesses in Nordhaven to check if it was an isolated incident or a general small business issue, I was able to access the Koopman household with no problem? Visiting the Loden household was the same as the Sarpong household, greyed out door, unable to go upstairs. But when I arrived at the Koopman lot, the walls were up, I was able to knock on the door (not an option for the other two), the walls came down, and I could then access both the business and the residential space.
The only mod I use is UI cheats, which I removed after the first instance of this issue to check if that was causing it, but the problem is still occurring. If anyone has any ideas why this is happening, then help would be appreciated. As I said this is my first time playing with the pack so I can't say if this is a old or new issue as I've only had it for a day. Happy to provide any more info if needed, this is a first time bug report/forum post for me so unsure of the etiquette. Thanks!
Sarpong householdLoden householdKoopman householdThis is happening to me too, i thought I didn't have the small business limit et correctly, but I do and its greyed out. Sims visiting as guest can't sit down or interact with any items in the house because the game is recognizing them as a customer.
