House farming- easy cash or lazy gamesmanship?

juliet603 wrote:
I bought a few of each house and made little streets with them rather than cram loads all together.

Exactly.

I can understand why people would house farm at lower levels. It feels like a lot of grind to make cash, in the beginning. But by the time a person has access to the blue house and then white, they can start making mixed and natural-looking neighbourhoods, and still accomplish much the same thing.