I'm no good at moving my elders out to leave the house to their main heir. They could have stayed in a smaller house or an apartment, or one of the retirement homes that I recently established, but no. Instead, they normally hang around in their old home, and if they have a pet, the 8 sim limit quickly fills up. I don't even upgrade the interior. The next generation often will feel more like lodgers than house owners. In real life the elders would probably have stepped back, allowing the younger couple to make all the adjustments they would like to make the house their own.
I also recently started playing with a detailed household economy, like I did back in TS2. It also means I run a detailed inheritance routine. At some point I will transfer all the elders' values over to their heirs, normally shared equally, but sometimes the elders can affect how the values are passed on. Now I can't decide what the perfect timing for the transfer is.
Leaving it all to the next generation on the day when the main heir marries? Waiting to share anything until Grim Reaper knocks on the door? This far I've officially been handing out the house to the main heir when main heir marries, and waited with everything else, which actually makes it all twice the job because I must deal with the passing on twice (house will be seen as a in-advance thing).
How do you do it? When do the elders step back? If you don't run inheritance, when do main heir get the house?
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I rarely move them away and if I do, I still visit them and play their household (the perks of playing rotationally).
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I'd have passed on the inheritance when the elder is a few days shy of giving up, with or without the marriage for the heir. This allows you to keep the elders for as long as possible and i'm sure the elders don't want to end up in a retirement home, not after all the attention and love they gave their heir over their lifetime, best to return the favor and look out for them.
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Perhaps most of you just give the moving out siblings a suitable sum of money, and leave everything else to the main heir?
If the heir is generous enough he could let his siblings remain until they got enough money of their own and kick them out. The bank of mum and dad of course won't be open to them. You got options there.
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My elders step back when they've completed their aspiration or career or whatever their goal is. They just go to work and earn money or retire and enjoy life doing nothing.
Thanks for bringing that Question to my Attention
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Sometimes I'll play rotation style. Other times, I just go into a household to make sure things are moving as planned. Job promotions, et al. Or if another sibling was born. Also, to make certain a sibling is wed, as planned.
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The heir doesn't necessarily get the parents' home. For one, they are still raising two children, and need the space, and my heir needs his own space for any potential offspring (once he and spouse get some career success / financial security under their belts).
But my founders will become Elders, probably when their youngest becomes a Teen, and if I am too reluctant then (as I may be) certainly when the youngest is a Young Adult.
Then I'll decide on disposition. Once they are empty-nesters, I may scale them back to a smaller house with just what they want and need, and let them have their own place. Or they may get a "Mother-in-Law" flat with one of their kids, and be hands-on grandparents.
I hate, hate, hate letting my Sims die, and play with aging off. But I don't plan to keep multiple generations at Elder either. Once the heir is an Elder, his parents can head on the the afterlife.
the other ones sometimes i put them into retirement homes and others i have them move out into a little house of their own for their twilight years
(That and I like having direct control over as many sims as possible, they fall to pieces without me 👀)
You pointed out one more thing that I have been having a problem with. Well, not a problem, but that might be a challenge in some families if the kids age is very spread. I normally think the oldest child will be the heir to the house, but fact is, like you said, that the younger siblings would occupy space both in house and in the 8 sims counting. So, for a while I had the youngest as main heir, but nowadays I also us a "social status" factor that I added to my manual DNA-string, kind of thing. In some cases it would fit better with specific skills - say a farmer or a restaurant owner would like to pass on their lifework to a child with minimum interests in the project.
From reading all posts I tend to like waiting with the inheritance until the elders actually dies. If a sibling gets the house, s/he will pay his/her siblings their share, and then the remaining values rthat parents leave behind can be dealt with later.
I am one of those players others here dislike who only enjoy playing YA and adults really, maybe teens.
But then, you know, I gave birth myself IRL If you know what I mean.
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I'm a one Sim at a time player and I just prefer not to have my previous one hanging around.