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Additional rental properties and roommates.
AngryPanCake
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I have all EP's except Supernatural and Pets.
My question is, can you purchase an additional home and use it as a rental property without using any 3rd party mods?
I tried to figure it out, but was unsuccessful. The roommates kept coming to my Sims home uninvited!
My question is, can you purchase an additional home and use it as a rental property without using any 3rd party mods?
I tried to figure it out, but was unsuccessful. The roommates kept coming to my Sims home uninvited!
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When you purchase an additional residential property, it becomes an extension of your active household's living space. If you then add "roommates," they live over both spaces the same as your sims do. You could try to keep them in their own designated areas with door locking, but they will still share everything that the lot(s) contain collectively.
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As far as roommates mods, I have one installed (LeapsForCauchy_RoommateFix), but it's mainly to disable the roommate function in the Sims3 that kept generating random roommates walking into my Sims house!
I also tried to use that mod to make roommates stay at a different property, but could not figure it out.
(I did have the random roommate thing once by the way, but I could easily solve that by making a phonecall)
That was before I added the other EP's and then getting the latest Origin Patch. This time I did not give the roommate a full trial, especially since they started showing up randomly!
If the lot type is Residential-Apartment, then there is no way to cancel the Roommate Service by phone. That's what the lot type is, essentially a dormitory. The only way to change that is to evict everyone/move them out and change the lot type.
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Another question: do I have to give the roommate an extra bedroom, or is an extra bed in the existing bedroom enough?
I don't see why two beds in the same room wouldn't work. But if the two sims don't know or like each other very much, depending on traits and privacy preferences adjustable by various mods, you may find that they don't want to sleep in the same room as each other. Have you thought of adding a Murphy Bed to what might be a living room?
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(And by the way, I installed NRAAS Relativity today and wasn't sure which speed to choose, and I found an old post in which you said you preferred 23 so I tried it out, and I thought it was just right. So thanks for that piece of advice too!)
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That's my mod from MTS! They do go to their jobs and go out, so not sure why people are saying they don't.
I tried to get them to stay at a different property but it was annoying and didn't work.
In my most updated version of the mod, if you have NRass Story Progression-Money, you can buy additional properties and then "rent" them out as a Landlord: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=554197 . I tried to make it realistic - the tenants on the owned property will send you money directly, and they'll also complain about broken objects. If you don't fix them, they don't send the rent payment!
It also disables the random roommates that EA generated with an Apartment lot type.
My main purpose of the mod was to disable those random roommates, so you could have houses that you "rent" instead of purchasing (by setting the lot type to Apartment). I was tired of my new sims living in horrible houses because they only had $20,000 to start with. This way, you can rent a nicer house while saving up to buy or build their own!
Of course, I have no idea what I am talking about here especially since I've been a long-term renter my entire real life.
What I really wanted to say is that the OP wanted the answer in the context of not using mods, hence many of the replies describing how this works in a modless game.
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It's there in that post you quoted!
I don't think it matters about school because I think EA restricts roommates to YA and above.
Hi MrKnowitall,
I just downloaded your latest updated version and was reading the description/instructions, but could not figure out how to move roommates ito a rental property. My Sims live in a house and don't want to have roommates there, so I'm planing on buying a second home and turn it into a rental property.
How do I make renters/roommates stay at the second home/rental property?
By the way are renters and roommates the same?
Unfortunately you can't make roommates stay at another owned property. You can send other people in your family to sleep at another owned property, but you can't make that their "home" unless you move them out and onto the property yourself.
To have inactives become renters of your owned property, just move them onto the lot that your sim owns, like you normally would. In my opinion this works best if the lot is an Apartment lot type, because then they will pay rent and not have to purchase it, but it would work either way.