Do you include basements and garages when building starter homes (U20K lot & house)

Here are a couple examples I posted to my gallery.

I do not include garages in any house in TS4, because we have no cars!
Basements are rarely added to a Sims home. They are mostly storage units, private gyms or party basements (bar, dancefloor, stereo), if I decide to add them.

Option 5: I do not build starter houses :lol:

Either my sims are living on empty lot, camping, living in apartment or they are settled in midrange houses
or living that rich fam life cause its too dang easy to get rich if you try

like i literally have families that make 100k on spot when the bills day hits so :sweat_smile:
I just don't really see point in building cheap I can always make them money to build something that lasts them lifetime instead

as for garages tho yeah i do sometimes add them to the suburban houses (which are usually midrange)
but not really my other houses and they're usually there for additional skill building items or party/club hangouts

and I used to build lots of basements as extension to my houses
but I've been trying to avoid doing so lately cause not everywhere should have basement level
or at least make it bit more realistic in that ''I can only expand under house not under whole lot'' way
well unless its ancient tunnel system or whatever :lol:

I'm with @Simmingal, I don't do starter homes. Starter apartments, I do build those but, well, you know.? Most of my builds are slightly higher than starter budget but not up to luxury budget levels. Usually my lots are in the 40-80K price range, with higher and lower exceptions. I can make them look very luxurious by carefully sifting through my cc to find the really nice pieces that the creators assigned super low prices to.

I don't really do a lot of basements in my builds unless the build is aimed at an occult, werewolves and vampires in particular. For werewolves the basement is their den/rumpus room and where they have their tunnel to get them to Moonwood. For vampires it's usually a bedroom/crypt and living quarters for their meals...umm, their maids and butlers. Garages are something I never include and I would remodel into another room if they were in a build I downloaded. I would if we had functional cars. I never include deco cars in my builds either.

I never make garages for any of my houses. But I use basements a lot, for both starters and others.

I put basements in any house where it makes sense to do so. Most (furnished) starters I have done recently have been tiny houses, the latest has a basement because it would have made sense for at house of that age to have a cellar. It should properly have a hatch leading to the basement but we don't have that in game, so it just has a ladder going down. It is also a tiny house in Moonwood Mills. I am not a fan of garages on most sim houses because we don't have cars. I only have 3 houses built with a garage and one with a storage shed. Each of these is a place where I have lived or where family has lived. I will use a basement in any build for extra space (skills, playroom, future expansion etc) if makes sense and if I think I may need more space later (Oh no, triplets!), and intend to stay a long time. My name on the gallery is Evilfeline if you are curious. (I don't have time now to post pics)

Sometimes, I make basements for starters.
I don't make garages at all because it would just be another reminder that we don't have cars, nor decent garage doors.

I've never added a carage or basement in a starter build. I feel there's much better use for the money in a starter home + I don't like garages because we don't have cars. Basement I would consider. Just how I feel when building :)

Basements are necessary to make more use out of small lots, but garages are just a waste of space since we don't have cars in the game yet, and you have to rely on the debug options to even have a car that will fit.

I never make garages, but I sometimes (not always) include partial basements in "starter" homes. Never full ones unless the whole project is built for story purposes, in which case the cost of the house isn't a factor at all. In normal circumstances if the household that moves into a house wants more room, they can either do their own remodeling for expansion or move to a bigger house whenever they can afford either.