Am I the only one having problems with Keep/Sell furniture?

Hi @Simmerville !
Yes, the wording is confusing. Here is what happens

Keep Furniture: They take everything in the house with them, right down to the counters and toilets. It appears in their household inventory when they arrive in their new place.
*Sell Furniture: They sell everything in the house, right down to the counters and toilets. They take the money with them when they arrive in their new place.
Evict: Everything in the house stays put and does not move with the family. They do take their household inventory with them.

Eviction sounds kinda yucky, but honestly it's what I use the most, because I use a lot of city apartments and it makes sense for counters and toilets etc to remain. I do pack up the family's own possessions in the household inventory in build mode, before evicting.

*(Wait, maybe I'm mistaken about Sell Furniture? Perhaps someone else can clarify. I have used Keep Furniture and Evict the most so I'm sure about how those work.)

@mightysprite is correct, but to streamline a bit:

Keep Furniture: All the building's furnishings go with your household to the next house, in the household inventory. The house they just left will be completely empty.

Sell Furniture: All the building's furnishings stay exactly where they are and your household will get money for them. The house they just left will look exactly the way it did when they lived there (no change).

Evict: Furnishings stay in the building (no change). Not sure if they get money for anything.

(I also often save before moving sims to a new home, in case there are any problems.)

Hope that helps!

Thanks both! There you see, needing that much text to be explained means the wording should be better.

My confusion would probably decrease if they had3 options (even if 2 of them lead to the same outcome):
"Sell forever" = no furniture in house or inventory.
"Bring in your inventory" = empty lot & furniture added to inventory.
"Leave furniture as is" = full house and nothing added to inventory.

Funny thing is that next time one of my families moves I will get just as confused as this time, even with your great help :)

It makes the most sense if you think about it from the sim's perspective rather than your own.

If they want to keep their stuff they will be taking it with them.

If they want to sell their stuff they will be getting money and leaving the stuff behind for someone else to use.

But honestly, I find it confusing too and have occasionally done the wrong one because the wording tripped me up. So I always use "evict" when I want the house left with all the stuff still in it. I can testify that when you use evict, the sims getting "evicted" do get the money, not just for the stuff, but for the whole lot as far as I can tell. I move sims in and out of residential lots for screen-shooting purposes all the time in two SimLit stories I am writing, and I always use evict so that I don't accidentally mess up my sets.

sell furniture leaves furniture on lot
keep furniture sims take the furniture to their household inventory

or so i hope or i will have trillion lots to rebuild :lol: I never take lot furnitures when my sims move

sometimes I use evict button instead

then again my sims don't really move too often like if ive built them a house its usually forever house

You can also put what ever furnitures/deco you want to keep into your household inventory and do the Sell Furniture to sell what remains. Everything in your household inventory comes with your household. I do this all the time when I want to keep everything except what would remain in a real life situations. F.i. bathroom/kitchen plumbings, appliances and fixtures and even maybe ceiling and wall lights.

One HUGE perk that comes with Keep the Furniture, is that any plants in your garden will be in your moving Sims' family inventory. You can simply place them into the ground from the family inventory. It's a real help.

@GalacticGal Yep! I also like just putting out-of-season plants in the household inventory to make room in the garden for this season's plants. The out-of-season plants don't suffer from their time over-wintering in storage.