For Rent best practices?

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My supersim is finally tackling the for rent aspirations. She is temporarily in a throwaway save. In my storyline she is dreaming of an alternative life and once she is done with the aspirations she will 'wake up' in her normal save with the aspirations ticked off for my list. The question is how to best approach rental units.

Should I completely set up the rental units and then start renting them out or can I build and improve while there are already people living there. I am currently in the process of creating a rental lot from scratch to avoid problem with downloading rental units. I have one apartment for my owner and 4 small units to rent out: one two bedroom apartment and 3 studios. For now it is still a regular lot, I will convert it to a rental unit very soon. Does anyone have tips or tricks for me? Does and don't that minimize the risk of lot corruption.

simsimsere · Answer

You can't edit the lived in apartments once the new residents move in, so it would need to be done beforehand. Not sure about tips... I've been playing with for rent in my main save with no issues since the release. I haven't done anything special, I think perhaps it's just not that common bug (although very serious).

I love your setup btw. I played villanous valentine aspiration in my legacy save in a similar way. Because I didn't have any couples left to break up in the normal save, I made a new save that was him dreaming and getting the aspiration done, breaking up the premade couples.

karamazov123 · Answer

Sorry, I have no helpful advice. But I wanted to say that I love the dream idea, that's pretty fun

atreya33 · Answer

Thanks. I ended up setting the building up completely but kept the furnishings to a minimum. Sims who move in just have to bring their own stuff with them. So I briefly load that household and buy some additional furniture with their money.

The valentine aspiration was annoying. I added temporary families with the intent to break them up, so I could avoid breaking up marriages of my permanent sims population. I deleted those families when the aspiration was done.

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