Wrong lot type error suddenly?

Yep. I have several residential lots that are coming up with a dialogue box when I am moving sims. The message says that sims can't live in non-residential lots. Some of these lots are empty houses. One has a family living there. Earlier I deleted an empty house and placed a new one on the lot. That corrected the error and I was able to move a newly-married young couple in. This happened after the patch. I haven't had the problem before.

"NoWayJose527;c-17119308" wrote:
Yep. I have several residential lots that are coming up with a dialogue box when I am moving sims. The message says that sims can't live in non-residential lots. Some of these lots are empty houses. One has a family living there. Earlier I deleted an empty house and placed a new one on the lot. That corrected the error and I was able to move a newly-married young couple in. This happened after the patch. I haven't had the problem before.

Same no issue before patch--played yesterday.

Is it this problem ?

https://twitter.com/crinrict/status/1141085121036075009

It only seems to happen to lots that were changed from commercial lots to residential.

It is not a mod issue, because I had to deal with this earlier today. I believe it is patch related. To fix the issue (I haven't been in my game yet afterward so I don't know if it stuck or not). You'll need to move the family out, click the box to sell their stuff so it will be there when you send them back. Then after you have moved them out, you'll need to merge the family out, like you are blending households. Because it won't allow you to move or evict the home, because the only option otherwise is to sell the business. Once you get the family out, go back into build/buy mode, and then change the lot trait to whatever it says in Map Mode, close that section, then open it back up, and change it to residential. Then go back into Map Mode, and the lot trait should be fixed, you can then move the family back in.

Is this happening in older saves only? This is not good.

I'm having that issue too, accept its Orange, not green like yours. Luckily, it doesn't have much of an efffect with my current game so no worries.

So in my largest save I had two mess ups with public lots turning into residential. It seems if sims aren’t living there it’s a super easy fix. Just go in and reclick the lot type was all I did. Fixed it no problem. It seems a bit random but also does seem to correlate with lots changed and edited.

Also I swear I’ve had this for a while with a handful of lots where they edited to residential and I had to fix them.

Have you tried repairing the game?

I had this problem while setting up a new save in Willow Creek last year. But it resolved itself after I repaired the game a couple of times. Haven't seen the same issue since, though. Magnolia Promenade will be the most affected because I got rid of all the retail lots and turned it into all residential. Hopefully this will be addressed in a hot fix soon. All six of my saves have had retail lots changed into residential lots.

Mine did this after the patch today. One lot was empty and I just had to change the lot type back in build mode. The other was occupied and showed as a retail lot from the neighborhood screen but residential type in build mode. I clicked on "sell business" and it reverted to a residential lot and the family is still in it. I'm not sure if they actually got the money from the sale though, forgot to check.