Unable to Change Residential Rental Lot

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I keep receiving an error when loading residential rental lots where I'm unable to change the lot type back to residential or any other lot type. MCCC is giving me this error:

Last Module Called: persistence_service.py
Last Function Called: get_house_description_id
Error message: [manus] business_service failed to handle zone load due to exception (AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lot_template_id'), CategoryID: persistence_service:676

Is there anything I can do to resolve this?

I received a similar error when playing with SNB Bills, but I have uninstalled it and gameplay was fine for a while until yesterday when I kept getting this error. The residential rental I'm playing in was automatically assigned a property owner since I'm not playing as one. I've tried selling the lot, bulldozing it and exiting game as well as changing it back to the residential rental and then back to residential.

I also saw someone post about this issue: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-and-Mod-CC-Issues/Can-t-change-lot-type-of-empty-unowned-residential-rental/m-p/13319379#M54493

and this one: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-SAVES-FR-Stuck-on-Residential-Rental-Lot-type/td-p/13291850

From the latter, it seems like this is still an ongoing issue.

This also seems to impact me being able to access build/buy on other residential lots and have the played household use their funds. Thankfully that issue was resolved with a game repair, but the issue of switching the lot type back persists.

lunatheemoon · Answer

After additional testing, I realized that this may be also be related to the issue: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-and-Mod-CC-Issues/For-Rent-Bug-Residential-Rental-gt-Residential/m-p/13291287#M52881

My mods are updated and there are no sims on the lot, but it has the for rent bug that was resolved in the last update where the rent is 4,000,000,000+ simoleons.

More testing resolved this issue, but left the one I've described above.

luthienrising · Answer

@lunatheemoon The folks at MCCC support suspect that that particular error is related to the game bug about ownership not being recognized. Try this workflow to switch from Residential Rental to another lot type:

Move all Sims out (I'd use Manage Worlds for this), in case the property being occupied is affecting anything
Then bulldoze
Then see if you can change the lot type

You might want to also see if installing the update of SNB Bills helps resolve anything.

That said, you can also post to this thread, and send your save file in for analysis: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-SAVES-FR-Stuck-on-Residential-Rental-Lot-type/td-p/13291850/highlight/true#M265593

luthienrising · Answer

@lunatheemoon Actually, don't update SNB Bills! Leave it out. I was just going through my lists and noted again that it's not yet updated for the pack, only for the patch.

lunatheemoon · Answer

Thank you so much for your response! I appreciate the help and troubleshooting steps. Unfortunately, I'd already moved sims off of the lot and when attempting to bulldoze the lot again and change the lot type, the issue recurs (L files and cache removed).

I'll stay posted on the other thread for updates.

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