Ok, now I understand what you guys have been trying to say. And I think I know what's happening and why the dropdown isn't giving you the choice to create new units when the only choices on the dropdown are shared and a single apartment. That's all you have access to in live mode so what I think you guys are doing is trying to make new apartments in an owned building and going to build mode directly from live mode. So, you'll need to backtrack a bit and basically start over to get the rooms assigned to the apartments. While some editing can be done going to build from live, you don't have access to the entire building going that route. It has to be done when the building is unowned, and you go to build from the map.
1st - make sure all the spaces are assigned to shared. If it won't let you do that, it'll probably be ok.
2nd- change the venue type back to residential.
3rd - If you are trying to convert a played lot that has collectibles and sim's career rewards and personal things like birth certificates, etc., collect those and put them in either a sim's inventory or the household inventory so they will stay with the owning sims when you move out.
4th - Move the sims out and sell the lot leaving the furnishings.
5th - Go to the map and enter the lot in build mode.
6th - Change the venue type to residential rental.
7th - Assign all rooms for apartment 1. After you finish assigning rooms to apartment 1, select a room that's for the next apartment, then use the create option on the dropdown and it will add apartment 2. Then proceed to assign rooms to apartment 2 and move on to the next until you've set up all the apartments. When you are done assigning all the rooms to apartments, exit to the map. If you want to save the lot to your library, do it before you exit the lot. Btw, rooms assigned to an apartment don't need to be contiguous. I built a building with 6 apartments and was able to give each apartment a section of the basement to store stuff. It just has to be accessible without going through space assigned to another apartment.
From there, you can have a sim buy the residential rental via the phone or a computer. You immediately get sent to the lot you bought in build mode. If that sim owned the lot they were living on before, you'll have to return to it and move out, selling the lot and move to the apartment in the residential rental you want the landlord in. OR you can move the sim to the apartment first and then buy the residential rental. Their apartment becomes the landlord's apartment either way. And the landlord can live in any apartment. It doesn't have to be apartment 1.
The key thing here is that to assign rooms to apartments is the lot must be unowned and it has to be done going to build from the map. It won't work going to build from live mode.
One caveat. If you downloaded a lot from the gallery and ran into the same situation where the only choices you get on the dropdown are shared and apartment 1, you can't fix it. Lots that do that were uploaded with a sim on it at the time of the upload will not let you create new apartments and give you an error that a sim is on the lot. The only one that can fix the lot in that case is the original creator. There may be other reasons it happens too of which I'm not aware.
Hope this helps.
Which loading screen are you stuck on? Before you get to the Main Menu, Loading the save or loading a lot.
In any case, if your game has been stuck since yesterday, you've got something seriously wrong going on. It should only take a few minutes to get from starting the game to build or live mode on a lot. So, you may as well force quit. If it hasn't loaded in this long, it's not going to.
If you use mods, try pulling your mods folder and starting the game just to see if it will load. If it does and you can get to a lot, then just exit without saving. Then it's time to go through your mods to find whatever caused it. If it still doesn't load, then you've probably got something corrupted. Try a game repair. If that doesn't fix it, it's probably the save. Could be a sim or a lot. Then it's time to start a new save or revert to an older one that will still load.
Hope this helps.
Ok, so it's hanging up loading into a lot then. Here's a couple of things to try.
If the lot is any venue other than a residential rental, try loading the lot in build from the map. If it is residential rental, you can still load in from the map but you lose everything that is in any container - fridge, bookcase, toy box and possible anything in any chests or storage containers (I'm not sure on the chests or storage containers). There are reports on losing the contents of the fridge, bookcase and toybox. No reports that I have seen on other containers.
If you get into the lot, make a small change. Add something like a chair. Anything will do. Then exit the lot and try loading into live again. If it doesn't work, then go to Manage Households and take the family on the lot to CAS. Check to make sure you don't have any broken CAS items on them. Fix what you find if you find anything. then try loading into the lot in live again.
If it still won't load, then try moving the family out. Keep in mind that you'll lose the connection between the sims and anything personal like birth certificates if you sell the furnishings when you move out. After getting the family out, try to get into the lot from the map again. If that doesn't work and you have a copy of the lot in your Library, you can try replacing the lot from the map.
Another thing you can do before moving the family out is play another household and travel to the lot giving you the problem to see if you can get to the lot that way.
I don't know if any of that will solve the problem but doing those things has solved problems for other people before. It's probably worth a try anyway since you can't play atm.
On the popups. I did see your other post on that this morning. The only things I can suggest are first, try a game repair. If that doesn't work, try a user folder reset. To reset your user folder, just rename your "The Sims 4" folder. Start the game. You'll have to close all the popups for the packs you have at Main Menu. Once you get through that, start a new game. Go through creating and placing the sim. Save and exit. In Windows, copy your saves folder from your renamed "The Sims 4" folder over the new the one the game just created. Do the same for your mods folder and any other folder like configoverride if you use any, screenshots if you want to keep them and custom music if you have any. Once everything is copied over, start the game to see if the popups continue to come up.
Hope this helps.
