Real Estate Cheat

Yes, of course I use it. It's the only way to set up challenges (like the legacy challenge, which requires quite a large lot) or make populate your world with sims (as I don't want to play all my families for a week to move them into the right house for my DIY save).

I always forget about it !!

I'm amused at the number of people that use it for their 'other' families but not the primary. I never even thought of that option.

Sometimes, my sims sleep in other luxury apartments without a house at the beginning of their sim lives but mostly, a very small and cheap house. I cannot deny I am so lazy to build houses for them. It will take at least 2 hrs to complete a new small house.

My actual answer would be "sometimes" It highly depends on the purpose of the household/save. Like my Alien Invasion save, used it. My houseflipper save - used it. My Seven Stories save? Used it (and then burned the house down on purpose). My Rags to Newcrest save? Nope, since it's a rags to riches challenge. Basically if money matters, I won't use it, if it doesn't I do... unless I want to start with a smaller house.

And like others, I'll use it to move in NPC families in to various houses as needed.

I forget it exists half the time, plus being accustomed to using the money cheat if I do so.

I just motherlode it up then build, my sims are spoiled and don't normally work for money, just for something to do

Sometimes I use it. If I've got a specific story in mind, or if I'm play-testing a build, I don't have time to earn §200,000. Once I wrote down how much the property cost and made my Sims pay it all back over time like a bank loan. That was fun.

I don't use it for every Sim, but I use it a lot.

I especially need it because I am constantly switching Sims from household to household to create new Sims, fix relationships, copy outfits, et cetera, and I'm not always careful about money transfers. I often end up with Sims with zero money who should have had money, so I have to move them into a lot before I can use a cheat to give them money again.

But I also use it a lot because I like most of my Sims to have cute houses. I used to enjoy moving a Sim into an expensive house and then struggle to pay the bills for all that house, but bills are so low now that it's not as much fun doing that anymore. I had one Sim whose children were taking part-time jobs and creating digital art at home so that daddy wouldn't get his mortgage foreclosed.

I also use it a lot because I usually have a story in my head about a certain character, and some of those characters are rich, so I want them to have nice houses, or perhaps their parents were rich and they inherited real estate but no money, or perhaps the Sim is unrealistic and wants a big house even though they can't afford it.

I also need the cheat now because all the cheap lots are taken. I need more lots!

Anyway, I'm very glad the cheat is available to us!

cause I like to make cute houses and i want to build them at once not wait to build a new wall as my sim goes to work or whatever

i would like it if my sims were forced to slowly pay it back though like when they get bills and all