Can you build tiny retail store with apartment?

In a way, yes. Most of my retail sims "live" above their store front. I have to buy an empty lot somewhere else as their home lot, but if you don't build anything on that home lot, there are no bills. Or, you could put just enough stuff to make your sim still owe "rent" for your apartment.

"SageRainWillow;c-16608702" wrote:
In a way, yes. Most of my retail sims "live" above their store front. I have to buy an empty lot somewhere else as their home lot, but if you don't build anything on that home lot, there are no bills. Or, you could put just enough stuff to make your sim still owe "rent" for your apartment.

Okay, Tell me more. do you have picture of it?

"SageRainWillow;c-16608702" wrote:
In a way, yes. Most of my retail sims "live" above their store front. I have to buy an empty lot somewhere else as their home lot, but if you don't build anything on that home lot, there are no bills. Or, you could put just enough stuff to make your sim still owe "rent" for your apartment.

I never even thought of doing that. My sims own a vet clinic and travel there every day and then travel home again...

I really wish we could just have our sims officially live on their retail lots. All of my shop owners spend so much time at their retail stores, there's no point owning a house too. It ends up being a waste of a perfectly good lot that another family might like to own.

Or else, I wish they'd given us real apartment tools. In TS2, I used to build little 3x3 "apartments" for my business owners, or for sims that I wanted to permanently live in their vacation homes. It was like having a PO Box, so it wouldn't waste a whole lot somewhere. But they didn't give us real apartments in TS4. :(

"Dannydanbo;c-16609097" wrote:
What's the point of living above your store if you still must own a lot? Why not just live on your lot. It seems an odd way to play and uses up precious few lots in an otherwise small world.

Loading screen and normally you have to set up for the next day by the time you do that it’s 3am might as well sleep at work. I feel like that in rl too xD

Did i said Tiny? Because i need blueprint of retail store for tiny business size. Thieves with kleptomaniac is my pet peeves, I hate thieves. Which you are architect design business /or place?

I had that before, what I did was build a door in a stairway passage and locked it for only my sim, otherwise your store visitors will walk around in your sim's home and help themselves to everything. I have a thread somewhere, I will search for it and show you :)

"mcrudd;c-16609490" wrote:
I had that before, what I did was build a door in a stairway passage and locked it for only my sim, otherwise your store visitors will walk around in your sim's home and help themselves to everything. I have a thread somewhere, I will search for it and show you :)

Okay.

"SilentMichael;c-16609399" wrote:
Did i said Tiny? Because i need blueprint of retail store for tiny business size. Thieves with kleptomaniac is my pet peeves, I hate thieves. Which you are architect design business /or place?

Try looking in the gallery at some of the retail lots posted there. A lot of builders will include small apartments on their retail lots.

"simmerlyrose;c-16612788" wrote:

"SilentMichael;c-16609399" wrote:
Did i said Tiny? Because i need blueprint of retail store for tiny business size. Thieves with kleptomaniac is my pet peeves, I hate thieves. Which you are architect design business /or place?

Try looking in the gallery at some of the retail lots posted there. A lot of builders will include small apartments on their retail lots.

Ok.