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Businesses owned not visible in business tab, nor playable

I had this issues over 8 months ago, a fix was pushed recently I think a couple of months ago, but my sims owning retails stores and restaurants still can't see their businesses in business tab. I can't manage their business and when I visit the lot, its like they don't own it, despise the neighborhood map showing them as owners... Very weird. I did some test yesterday because this is unacceptable that a new pack being around businesses release and no fixes have been found for this and it was mark as FIXED...

Its happening to all my sims owning retails stores and restaurants. I did some tests yesterday with my sim owning a retail store and realized that I could sell the retail through manage world, which I did. When I went back into life mode, my sims never got his money from the business sold... so I cheated and gave him what it was worth, then I purchase the business again, oddly the old perks purchased on the business were still intact, so I beneficiated from it except for the employees portions. I had no employees when I repurchased the business and the perks to be able to hire one more employee was not working. Since I already had purchase the perks, nothing could be done to hire 3 employees as I was able to purchase only the third employee perks... so i ended up being able to hired only two employee since the first additional employee perks does not work anymore... Also, I was not able to rehire my previous employees that were almost perfect and took a long time to educate... that very frustrating.

This has been a very long time since this is happening and seeing how much retails\businesses is one of the best part of this game, this is really pushing alt to my gameplay... same as aging up bugs etc...

Was the issue only fix for further instances or is there a viable solution for the families who have been affected by the bug.

Thanks for reading,

9 Comments

  • ymc30's avatar
    ymc30
    Seasoned Newcomer
    4 months ago

    I'm having the same issue 

  • McrPhg's avatar
    McrPhg
    New Spectator
    3 months ago

    Same for residentials for rent, my workaround the bug is to go to build mode and back to live mode, but then the employees UI gets bugged by not showing properly and we can't fire them

  • thesimbae's avatar
    thesimbae
    New Spectator
    2 months ago

    The same been happening to me I hope for a fix soon!!

  • TheReindeer27's avatar
    TheReindeer27
    Seasoned Novice
    2 months ago

    I think I'm having the same issue. Starting yesterday, I logged in to have the Owned Businesses tab report "You do not own a small business right now" despite the fact that it shows up as "Owner of business" on my Employee tab and the housemate employee shows "Employee at business" on the Employee tab. Last night I "fixed" by going to an earlier save, and everything seemed to be working fine. I played, I saved, I logged out. 

    Tonight when I logged in, same experience, only the business I "don't own" was still open and running. It wouldn't allow me to close it via the kiosk, but I left the lot, returned, and then it did let me close via the kiosk. Periodically the Owned Business tab will show the business again, but interactions may or may not work.

    I do use mods, which I turned off while trying to troubleshoot this. There was no obvious effect.

    A few days ago, I DID change my lot type to Tiny House Residential (Small Business). Could that be causing any trouble? I don't know, but I did change back to regular Residential (Small Business) just in case, although I haven't seen any improvement yet. 

    This is super frustrating because my whole game currently revolves around this small business, and combined with the damage For Rent previous did to other worlds in this save file, I'm about ready to throw in the towel.

  • RoboRob43's avatar
    RoboRob43
    New Spectator
    2 months ago

    This is happening with my game as well.  My Platform is PC.  The rental properties are not showing up in the Businesses Owned panel after I return to the game.  I have cleared the Cache and tried the repair option in the EA app to no avail.  Please advise.  Thank you!

  • AnneXDreamer's avatar
    AnneXDreamer
    Rising Novice
    2 months ago

    I have this issue aswell. I didn't play for a few months and started playing again today (But I had this problem months before too) My sim owns a small business (bakery) but in the owned business tab it shows "No Businesses Owned". The only way I could fix it was indeed by going into build mode and then back to life mode as someone suggested here. I have no employees in my business so I don't know the effects of that.