Quick question. Can you run a (retail) business on your “home” lot?

You can’t, because your sim requires a “home lot”. What some ppl do is buy a lot and convert it to retail and on that lot you can build your house above the retail store and do your plan. You’re still required to pay the bills for the other lot though

It would have to be listed as retail, but it won't let you change to that while you live on that lot. You would have to move, then pick the lot you want to be retail, change the lot trait, buy it and if you place what will be a home make sure doors are locked so customers don't walk in there and only go in the store you have on that same lot. Some people add an upstairs or downstairs inside their stores for living areas locked to anyone but their households too.

No, but if you own city living there is a table for you to sell items, my sims children used to sell lemonade after school in front of the house.

I usually living quarters on my retail lot for my sims.

I also want to do this. I be grateful love if people shared tips on the best way to do it even if we have to own two lots.

Sadly not, you can only run a business on a lot set as a retail lot, not a residential lot.

Best way around it is to just move your sim into an empty lot, then buy a separate retail lot and make a home there. Then just use that retail lot as if its your home lot.

"Onverser;c-17615376" wrote:
Sadly not, you can only run a business on a lot set as a retail lot, not a residential lot.

Best way around it is to just move your sim into an empty lot, then buy a separate retail lot and make a home there. Then just use that retail lot as if its your home lot.

That's what I do. I have my home base on an empty lot so the bills are minimal and have my sim "living" at their business lot. But now that I have the Eco pack, I've also added a whole bunch of solar panels and wind turbines onto that empty lot to get a surplus of energy, so I can make extra money instead of paying extra money for that "empty" lot.

Without the "Live in Business" mod, no. (I've recently installed that but haven't play-tested it yet.)

I have had sims basically live at their retail shop. Their useless mansion is across the street, heh heh! No mod. It can work if you play it actively and have the business building with all the normal residential stuff somewhere you need to keep then constantly going. I've run that for about 2 months in-game time. It was fun testing it. So it can be done.

If serious about doing it, I recommend having a tiny minimalist home on another lot as the household's "base". In the same neighborhood. When actively playing, have one or two without jobs or careers at least! to run the business constantly. I had all six (minus the teen which would be seven) run it and with the usual sleep, pee, eat, bath or shower, fun, etc... needs, actively playing it, it works.

The stuff at the business breaks all the time so building up handiness skill on all characters can be done quite quickly. (You can't upgrade things lol) Social interactions are pretty constant too so builds those skills up fast too.

My Ebabbit's are so awesome! :D B)

"Trust me! You want to buy that couch!"
https://i.imgur.com/5boeWyI.png

Didn't sell the couch, but Fufu bought one of the funky tables.
https://i.imgur.com/3mwFwiL.png

There goes a satisfied customer.
https://i.imgur.com/Y5F7FP7.png

Can't miss the green dome of the "Ebabbit Emporium."
https://i.imgur.com/cxSh9GW.png

If you put living quarters and a mailbox on your retail lot, it'll function just the same. Just keep in mind that when you're out and about, if you click the "home" button the Sims will return to the empty home lot, so you'll have to bring them to the lot you want. I set up a bakery with a home above it and tested it with a family with toddlers. The toddlers were sent back to the empty home lot when they returned from daycare, but once I figured that out, it was just a matter of calling everyone to the bakery when I wanted them "home."