For Rent: What Are Your Plans?

No plans so far regarding gameplay, but I'm hoping for some larger lots for apartment buildings than the usual 20x30/15x20 and hopefully once again more lots on the new map than the usual 10 - 12. There is always a reason to build :smile:

@AncientMuse Thanks for sharing the plans of your worlds, the wonderful ideas and everyone also for the inspiration! ??

Back in 2020 I built a Contemporary Neighbourhood! (pics) I'm thinking to build a Modern one and also planning to make different apartments and other buildings inspired by Southeast Asian architecture of course.



Contemporary style



https://i.imgur.com/9ePpkCF.png

3 houses with a common laundry, patio, pool, grill, etc.

Johnny Zest is going to run a whole trailer park. Maybe an empire of trailer parks! In my now-dead save, he ran a converted motel, so thinking that might also return. It was a fun lot.

Plus I'm going to make my actual rowhouse I live in, but I'm not sure it really fits in any save well.

At least one penthouse in San Myshuno is going to become apartments.

I'm going to resurrect my old Willow Creek seniors' home and make it more functional. Still not a real seniors' home, with staff serving meals etc., but it's something, and frees up some nice large homes for families.

I'm thinking that there needs to be an extended family compound or three in some worlds. And they'll actually function :D I had some in my now-dead save but they were meh because they didn't work well. One was more like a commune, and I'd like to play more with that concept too, so it can better accommodate family groups than it did.

DEFINITELY there will be Sims renting out rooms in a boarding-house type setup, students living in shared housing or rooming with families, people renting out their basement (like half my real-life neighbours do, if the whole house isn't split into flats), and things like rented out renovated coachhouses on a large property.

There will be So. Much. Building and Renovating. Also: I'm enormously grateful to people on the Gallery who build shells or who share their builds that I can use as shells. It's the part I'm terrible at, getting started, but once I've got that, it's a lot of fun to renovate.

I will settle on a plan when the pack comes out as I do not build anything until I see the packs and know what it can do, and I also use lots off the gallery.

In my personal save file I already have a bunch of unofficial multi household lots, things like trailer parks, townhomes, etc. so I'm basically going to convert all those into official multi household lots and explore the pack from there.

"Lixy_170;c-18323506" wrote:
@AncientMuse Thanks for sharing the plans of your worlds, the wonderful ideas and everyone also for the inspiration! ??

Back in 2020 I built a Contemporary Neighbourhood! (pics) I'm thinking to build a Modern one and also planning to make different apartments and other buildings inspired by Southeast Asian architecture of course.

https://i.imgur.com/9ePpkCF.png

3 houses with a common laundry, patio, pool, grill, etc.

That is awesome!
I am going to have to give that a try. It could be a way to get a bit of a living neighborhood.
It depends on how active the other tenants are and what they do.

As of right now, I don't have any plans for this pack since I'm not even gonna use its main feature because I'm not interested in living/owning the new residential rental lot type. I might build a residential rental lot out of pure boredom but that's about it. I pre-ordered it mainly because of hopscotch, marbles, and the new fungus death. ?‍♀️

I have so many ideas right now for multi-family housing! My hope is that we can squeeze enough sims on a lot that I can delete the keep sims in world mod and have actual real neighbors instead.

-Trailer parks in Oasis Springs and Strangerville
-Apartments in Del Sol Valley and Newcrest
-Little cottages in Glimmerbrook for all the spellcasters
-Boarding house in Forgotten Hollow for all the vampires - they don't need their own kitchens
-Tartosa will be getting a little village type place with the tall townhouses
-Retirement home, with the "staff" being the landlords (I've loved the idea of this, but playing all my elders in one giant household was never interesting to me)
-Sulani mermaids are getting a commune
-Not sure where yet, but I want at least one building with an "apartment" that is basically an unplayed sim living in the walls
-if the mechanics work right for this, I want to build an apartment in San Myshuno that uses some of the common space as a shared office space. Potentially combining clubs and moving in coworkers and neighbors would allow it to feel like my sim lives above the office
-Playable ranch hand in Chestnut Ridge, if these apartments let us have horses - the landlord can live in the house and own the horses, while the ranch hand just hang out and tend it
-Student housing is going to get way more micromanaged. I had a save where I had a sim I decided was the "dean" at the university, and everyone who was admitted to school had to be friends. Depending on the mechanics, this could work well with a landlord situation.

I spent all day building this duplex as I'm super excited for the upcoming pack! I've been wanting to build apartments/duplexes etc for years and the idea of owning one is so cool! I deliberately only furnished one side so that others can make the other side their own (if they have a family with kids etc).

Gallery link: https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/pc/gallery/65AFB2BCE89B4A608D7E5E68EF98B7B2

Close up view of the courtyard area:

Lot view of the duplex:

Runa and Freya in the courtyard:

Kitchen for the furnished side of the duplex:

First floor furnished aerial view:

Second floor furnished aerial view:

I'm gonna create a village, if its possible to have separate unit houses. One in probably every small world with only 5 lots, because this way I can make it more lively. Some big lots will get a village too, because I don't like to have too many big luxury homes and I often feel like the very big lots are kinda wasted on 1 rich family or a normal house in general..

Gonna make a resort vacation place too in Sulani, also some Bed&Breakfast in other worlds. Motels/Hotels until they decide to add that one Expansion Pack too. Retirement Homes and Psychiatry Homes will also be created. Duplex, I also already have so it's nice that its finally a real thing. Rowhouses... or maybe simple rented bedrooms in a house.. so many possibilities.