Real Estate Cheat

I tend to build first then I get my sims to move in.

It depends what I am doing. If I am adding neighbors for my Sims yes but I usually do rags to riches so no. In my current save my Sims started in a TLC apartment and they are working their way up to a penthouse.

Most of the time when I'm making a household in CAS, they're not starting out from the beginning in my imagination. I'll get them the house they belong in, cheat money to where it should be, cheat jobs and skills, and then I can play with them. It gets boring to always start at the "beginning" for me.

if i want to creaet a rich family or like a royal or even a alien family or a celebrity family

Depends on my particular brief/backstory for the Sim(s).

I usually build in advance of creating the Sims that are going to use it so generally I do use FreeRealEstate if it's not affordable.

I'm a story simmer so in saves where lifespan is on, sometimes it's important to just put them in the house I envision and let them grow into it than to have them struggle to even get a 50K house in a single lifespan.

When I need to, not always. I actually wish we could manually set this in CAS. Not everyone is the same class. Sometimes I want a certain size lot but not have someone be a millionaire. So I'll free real estate a lot, bulldoze it, build what I need.

Or sometimes I'm just lazy, haha.

"Onverser;c-17657261" wrote:
Once you start using cheats you can't stop. I can't be bothered with rags to riches and making money nowadays.
freerealestate on and money -insert number- are life savers

I let my Sims have a nice house that holds them well, especially when I'm playing a family. I still enjoy the money making process, especially painters with Plopsy paying 14K for a painting (that pretty much paid my Sim's way through UBrite).

I don't use it so much anymore but if I have a specific back story then I will. I do have some wealthy by motherlode sims but that's because their stories include pre-existing wealth and investments or there's another logical reason. I have the Elderberry family renting out one of their rooms to another random sim, so she is paying them rent each week through Kaching.

Now that we can transfer money between households, I use it much less. I do transfer money around as teens grow up and move out on their own or attend university. Their parents have to figure out how much they can part with for their child. I used to use Freerealestate more to simulate that.

I have no shame about giving households a bit more money to decorate if I want that. This doesn't mean that every household is well off or that they all have the fanciest decor, it just means I personalize their decor without worrying a lot about money. I do have some households that are closer to the "rags" end of the spectrum.

absolutely. Not for the sims I'm planning on playing, but when I'm populating the world, I use the cheat and I'll often cheat them some skills and a job as well.