Can't afford a house after graduation...

This is very realistic. I guess you'll have to start with an apartment if you are opposed to cheating. With the boosts you get in careers, maybe you'll be able to afford a decent starter home after a bit?

"Finbar659;c-17318732" wrote:
@Dijktafone no I meant as in my sim has just graduated and had to move out of the university dorm with a household fund of 4,500. I couldn't afford any liveable lot with that sum!

I wish I was able to keep the house I had before moving to university and still return home in that same house

You could have kept the house and attended uni there if you wanted.

I attended it with over 800k § personally. It's more about those who want to attend with a fresh sim.
Oh I see, a missquote, my bad.

Quite honestly any sim that goes to college or university should have bills backing up worse than people eating spoiled food running for the toilet every 5 minutes. Part of having a realism approach is getting yet another loan to get a starter home and paying additional bills a week to help pay off the debts, and those should be hefty enough, after all no good deed ever goes unpunished. you'd be required to suppliment your regular income with extra income, it would be that hefty in bills.


But there should also be an option where a sim could sponsor you and move you into their household, but you'd have no control over the household members, just your own sim. you'd pay bills but at a reduced rate as they help offset that and help pay off part of your debt.

You are given pre-made room that can't be adjusted at first, but when you help pay your way and prove to the household you can be a good investment to them, you'll eventually have one of the household members come up and say that they'll allow you to make changes to your room as a pop up in a speech mark with a avatar of themselves. Eventually you'll clear your books and have a great paying job or used easy money makers on the side to help, either way, when you reach §20k in the clear, you are kicked out and the household sells your stuff for themselves and restores the original layout. you'll have to make your own way from there.

You'll keep ythe friendships you built, but you'll be limited on purpose to 50% friendship and unable to form relationships in order to keep from seducing the daughter or son of the sim to worm your way into their good books to pay off your debts just like that and use the one you seduced as a sort of hostage by love.

"musteni;c-17318889" wrote:

"Finbar659;c-17318732" wrote:
@Dijktafone no I meant as in my sim has just graduated and had to move out of the university dorm with a household fund of 4,500. I couldn't afford any liveable lot with that sum!

I wish I was able to keep the house I had before moving to university and still return home in that same house

You could have kept the house and attended uni there if you wanted.

Then I wouldn't enjoy the proper university experience :D

$4,500 is plenty of money for a Sim to start off with. With that much money, you could have built a very basic starter on one of the less expensive lots. Surely the Sim learned some skill while at college that they could have used to start making money - like painting, for example. Gardening is also a good source of income. But, I see that you already solved the problem by adjusting their household funds. I, for one, hope the devs leave this aspect alone because I think it should be difficult for a Sim starting out after they graduate.

It seems quite appropriate for your sim to move back home into their parents basement until they can afford to buy a house.

"Monaveil;c-17319543" wrote:
$4,500 is plenty of money for a Sim to start off with. With that much money, you could have built a very basic starter on one of the less expensive lots. Surely the Sim learned some skill while at college that they could have used to start making money - like painting, for example. Gardening is also a good source of income. But, I see that you already solved the problem by adjusting their household funds. I, for one, hope the devs leave this aspect alone because I think it should be difficult for a Sim starting out after they graduate.

Without CL, §4,500 is barely enough to get a wall, roof and everything else you need to start off with, even on a tiny lot like Crick Cabana, Singleton Streamlet or Nookstone. even the basic house with nothing inside costs far more than what you start with. so you'll have to build your own on the smallest cheapest lot available (which usually costs §1,500), get the above as mentioned, no computer or easel. that is with the cheapest stuff you can get (the mod pod sleeper being the exception as the anti-goblin bed isn't made for adults to sleep on).

BTW i just created a 4x4 house for a post-graduate, as i'm poking fun at the situation, i'm gonna upload it when i post this message.

"gnelso1239;c-17318866" wrote:
Wow! They really pushed the realism then! Pretty soon in certain areas, one won't even be able to afford to rent-a-room.

That's what I was thinking. Now, all your Sim needs is a just-above-minimum wage job not remotely related to the degree he took, and a loan collector calling to ask what he's spending 'all his money' on.

This will make the realists happy...for me, there will always be 'motherlode'.

"BoergeAarg61;c-17319532" wrote:
Luckily, all sims I sent to university, have a house or apartment to return to.

One solution might be looking for existing households with room for one sim more. At least some of the premade households have spare beds.

That actually sounds like an interesting scenario to live among the premades while your sim earns enough to but his/her own house.