Owning multiple homes

"FKM100;c-16238545" wrote:

"paradiseplanet;c-16229508" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-16228818" wrote:
These worlds are too small to give the number of households I play 2 homes. As it is - I don't have enough lots with them just having one home. They claim they can't go any bigger than they are now - so I don't suspect that we'll ever get to own 2.

Exactly! If we're going to able to own multiple homes at any point in the future, we need A LOT more lots and even more spacious worlds for them.

My experience is the opposite. Much as I would love to have more lots, because I like building, I found - rather to my surprise - that I already had more than the recommended limit of 200 "favorite" sims. And this is with several of my houses standing empty, as it is. This is because I tend to create rather large families - five sims is about average for me. And, of course, if I want to add a pet or two, this will also add to the population. Of course, I could always "un-favorite" some of my households, but I don't particularly want to do that. I had to do it when I found I was over the limit, but it required some really tough decisions. So, since there is little point in creating any more households, the only way in which I can occupy every one of my lots would be for some of my existing households to own more than one home.

Not me - I constantly run out of room. When C & D came out I had to start a brand new game as all my lots were filled to the brim - and didn't have any room to add things for the pets - so instead of just putting everything in BB - Started completely over with new sims.

I also do not remove the houses in the game or remove the Maxis Sims - I do fix up the houses that are empty and remodel them often inside - so basically I have just the empty lots and the empty houses to work with. I never allow the game to fill any houses either - I fill them eventually -

But I run out of room a lot.

"Dannydanbo;c-15772140" wrote:
You can build a second, vacation house in GF. You may have to "rent" it every time you go, but it still could be similar to owning a second house. When you go to GF, no one will be "renting" it instead of you and when you're not there, no one will be "renting" it because no one goes there until you do. Instead of paying for the house up front like other house lots, the rent could be considered making a house payment if you use your imagination.

This is what I do, it's their vacation home, but it would be good if we could actually buy it.

I would love to see that too. Its kinda possible if you own a business, restaurant or veterinary clinic since you technically own a lot. I usually build homes right next to the public places or something like little apartments or townhouses. After that is just locking the doors of the "house" zone

Is there still no way to own a 2nd residential home? Can they not own a Vacation home?

i think its kind of a must, now that we have multiple destination worlds. I'd also like to vacation in Sulani. Just imagine a summer break (with seasons obviously) in this location.

I would like the ability to own a vacation home in Sulani without moving sims in and out to vacation there. I don't want to permanently move them there. Another option would be to have rentals and hotels on all worlds. They could include a rental option in lot type. All of the ideas listed above to get around this are good ideas that I use in my game occasionally, but the lot doesn't function as rental.

I found this post by searching for how to buy a 2nd home in Sims 4, as they did in Sims 3. I am out of room in my town, as the family's kids all got married and moved into homes and had their own families. Well, I have twin grown boys who met twin ladies (I created the ladies), and in the same home and with kids now. The one twin, Charles, met a gf, and they have 1 available lot left, as their love nest, but would like her to move into it, but how? I can't get her to move in first, the wife will get very upset, and the family also already has 8 ppl in it.
Also, there must be an option to have more than 8 people in a family?

I tried to find a way to edit my comment above, but couldnt. I also wanted to mention, that the lady he is seeing at the love nest, he just visits there, and asks her to come along, But now she has his kid, and pregnant with his 2nd, and have no way to figure out how to get her to move into it.

I came here wondering about buying second home as well. I like the idea of a hidden cash register. But also there are a bunch of "work from home" builds on youtube etc. Basically buy a retail lot, and put a small coffee shop or something on the main floor. Second and third floor make your house with the main door in the back of the building and locked. You get the income from the coffee shop plus a snazzy new home.

Another thing on the list of things you can do in older games but not TS4. Sigh.