Household missing

Hi, crin. I did not get all my houses back,  but, I found that playing from the entire map screen, and from the last saved game I left off on,  and going to the main town map from there, shows most of the families and builds. 

I don't see a few of my older ones,  but, I'm just going to leave those alone,  and stick with what I'm doing,  as it's working for me from this point. I believe I was starting some of my gameplay from older saves, and building in those old saves, which caused my builds and families not to show up when I started playing next time from a newer save.  I was not understanding how to play in the order that the game's engine understood. 

The few builds and families that don't show up for me now,  were built during older saves and I'm not going to build on those spots now,  because I just don't want to confuse the game, and I'm just going to be satisfied with what seems to be working now. 

Windows 7, most packs and expansions,  but just SIM stuff,  no fan stuff,  no mods,  ever. And I don't intend to upload any files. Cheers.