Owned Businesses - Bug / Glitch

EA_Cade Thank you for this kind response! It lessens the aggravation. I think this is part of my confusion when I look for these bugs in the forums is people are separating these issues and it doesn't seem like a separate issue to me because at the core, these issues are all the same and affect only "owned businesses" that same business runs fine if you sell it off to the "community" so to speak, but you loose all your hard work.

Also, one thread has gotten new attention again since the alleged patch fix a few months ago and the other is new since I first posted about it 5 months ago. I really don't like sharing saves but if it will help I am open.

It definitely "spreads" from household to household as I've tested it. I have many retail lots as OFB was my fav thing to do. So I have created many stores for my game so sims can go shopping. So when I go to a store and it works fine, what's different? I haven't played that said household that owns it since this started. Then I go play it, switch households again and go back to that said store and it doesn't work. This makes me believe it is a call in data error on the panels part, which then breaks the functionality somehow. I am a novice coder but been dealing with Sim glitches since 2000. 

Hope this helps us figure this out! I want OFB part 2! lol