[BH] Lot not recognized for small business

Same problem.

I can't add small business lots downloaded from the Gallery, even though the lot was purchased as a small business, when I try to open it it doesn't appear. Is that the case for you?

 It only works if I create from scratch on the new terrain.

Previously residential, chanced to small business venue. I was able to work around this by going to buy another lot and buying my lot a second time. I cheated the money back. Not sure why it didn't register as owned the first time. 

I commented on that one too, it was an empty residential lot and when I placed the small business/built-it I changed the lot type to Small Business venue. It let me open it while I was there but after I went home and came back it wouldn't open again because of it not being assigned to a lot. I was able to fix it by buying the lot again then the small business panel. However I had already paid for the lot and business in full once already, so I had to cheat the money back.

To be clear she owned it as an empty small business lot. After placing a lot from the gallery and setting up/renovating to match my business it wouldn't allow me to assign it to the lot I owned. I had to buy it again for it work.

Would you mind adding some pictures to illustrate ?

There's currently a few similar issues and it's a bit hard to tell if they are connected or the same or completely different.

Here's a thread for the not being able to open the business: [BH] Can’t open small business | EA Forums - 11968167 

Same issue :c It used to be a residential rental. I don't wanna start a new save or use a different lot so I guess for now I'll just have them buy it as a separate lot. I was mainly excited about the live-in feature though. </3

Issue 2. Umm so okay. I don't know if anyone else uses or has used the TOOL mod but when I moved my sim both in and out of a RR, everything placed with TOOL mod disappears. Note I don't have it currently in my game because broken but that's never been an issue before.

This is after moving into a completely different RR in this neighborhood. I was gonna settle for buying an off home lot small business, living in a different apartment, but I ran into an extension of the same issue. I also saw the world like this when I moved them out of the 1st RR then went back to build buy to change it from RR to regular residential. But when I exited out and went back in everything was back to normal soooo...? I guess this has something to do with small businesses not even being able to be registered by those living in RR or ex-RR. 

Moved household into a regular residential and I was able to buy the small business. But I no longer have interest. I understood that we can't hold small businesses on RRs. But For Rent and B&H are not only incompatible but break each other. Risky.

Hey I was having this problem and I figured it out, so go to owned businesses => generic business => buy a small business venue lot and then buy your business. It should work after that !!

I'm having the same problem with an existing lot.  It was previously set to generic but I was running it as a live-in cat café.  I changed it to residential and moved the family in from their empty lot that was their "residence" before and put the kiosk on the café/residence lot, then tried to set it as small business but I get the same "no valid lot" message, also.

I tried:

1. Moved the fam back out, set the lot to another lot type from the world map.  I don't recall which - probably back to generic since that would be easiest.  Then set it back to residential.  Moved the fam back in.  Same result.
2. Similar, but moved fam out; saved to generic; saved and exited game.  Reloaded game. Set to residential. Moved fam back. Same result.
3. Similar, but this time, changed to generic; saved; changed to residential - did not move fam in. Exited game with it saved as residential. Restarted.  Moved fam back.  Same result.
4. I'm gonna move them out, bulldoze lot, reload lot from gallery - where it is saved as residential - and try again, hopefully without having to restart again, but if it doesn't work, I'll repeat and save then restart again.

I've been playing since day one with the sims and usually can fix my own problems unless it's an actual bug.  This one I can't figure.  There are no mods in my save and never have been.  This is a many years old save file at this point, though I do resave as a new file periodically.  I'm still going on the theory that it somehow still thinks the lot type is not valid.

Same issue. I had been running my cat cafe as a live-in restaurant. Was excited for the new features but now I can't convert their house into a small business venue.

I was having the same problem and the only way I could fix it was to split the household. Basically I transferred all my sims and pets to another household leaving the old household with no one and the problem was gone.

I was having the same problem and the only way I could fix it was to split the household. Basically I transferred all my sims and pets to another household leaving the old household with no one and the problem was gone.