Building Apartments?

As far as I know there is no way to build your own apartments right now.

The closest I've come to accomplishing apartments is to lock each "apartment" door for the Sim that lives there. I built a typical LA-style in Del Sol and it plays well.

Hmm, sounds interesting, but wouldn't they still be a part of the same household? So you'd be limited to 8?

Huge pet peeve of mine! I've been wanting to build my own apartments ever since they were first introduced.

I don't live in a "big city", I don't want high rise apartments in a city environment. That's just one more way the devs have forced us to play their way and removed the player creativity from past games.

I live in a small US city that has a variety of different types of apartments, from huge houses converted into multiple 1-bedroom or studio apartments, condominiums that house only 2 home units that are connected but that have several of these units within a complex, typical apartment buildings with multiple floors and balconies and a community pool, large homes that have been converted into duplexes, etc, etc.

They put apartments into another expansion pack (Eco Lifestyle) and you also can't build your own in that pack either!

Faking apartments with the roommate system or mods or how others have said by locking the door is NOT the same thing. You don't get to experience the whole apartment atmosphere from neighbors being loud or knocking on your door complaining about stuff, etc.

"Garfieldwxg55;c-18159384" wrote:
Hmm, sounds interesting, but wouldn't they still be a part of the same household? So you'd be limited to 8?

Yup. Or use a mod to increase the size of the household. I don't because more than 8 Sims is too unwieldy.