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Hitmanjpittyy
New Novice
10 months ago
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Change a small business venue to a Residential Small Business

I can't figure out how to change a small business venue lot to a residential venue. I had a gym set up and started a small business with it but then decided I wanted to have my home there as well, but I can't change the venue type. So, I can't move my household.

  • I had the same problem and figured it out. 

    So first I went to the small business settings under the owner and unassigned all lots.

    Then I went to manage worlds and clicked on the business lot, and clicked more (the 3 dots at bottom right of screen) and there will be one icon with option to sell the business lot. Click sell, it will send all the money to the owner's household.

    Click on the business lot again, enter build mode (also bottom right of screen).  Change the lot type at top left of screen to residential.

    Then go back to manage worlds and go into live mode of the household in original house. Click move household on the phone/computer. Move into the the business (now residential) lot. It should automatically change the lot into small business residential when the household moves in. Assign residential and public areas, and you're good to go!

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  • a6307nrrsg5q's avatar
    a6307nrrsg5q
    Rising Newcomer
    8 months ago

    Thank you for such a clear answer to this. I want to move my home onto my business lot but can't do it without overwriting the whole lot! So back to building from scratch, please let me know if you know a workaround 

  • 2hCreations's avatar
    2hCreations
    Seasoned Veteran
    23 days ago

    mv48123​ Thank you so much for this message!

    I literally spent hours trying to find a way out of this problem… before finding your post.
    I followed your steps in the correct order and it worked. Wow!

    Sometimes we get really attached to our Sims and we don’t want to erase them or lose them, you know.

    Anyway, thank you again! 😏