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    Shops/business

    Dida_QuickswitchDida_Quickswitch Posts: 290 Member
    in The Sims 4 General Discussion
    What options are there now for having a business in the Sims 4? I really liked the Sims 2 style, where you can start as a home business and move to other places when your business took of. (ofcourse the costumer would be more likely to buy a car than a tomato if the car had a lower mark up, wich was exploitable, and not ideal). But I really like the style of the shop. You say you stat a business, you sell stuff that you either make or wholesale, you have to restock and manage the register along with trying to sell stuff. The more happier the costumer, the more costumer you got. I know they have yard sale now, but it's not same thing. I'd like to start my business withouth leaving my lot, especially because of the zoning issues, wich is hugely annoying and make you only be able to control sims at 1 plot at a time. That means I can also have a baby/toddler and tend the business at the same time (I do NOT trust the baby sitters).

    So is yard sale the only way to sell stuff from your home? And what other options do I have? Can I have a store with wholesale products and sell items from the game?

    If I want to sell items I made myself, can I make other thigs than different kinds of food( raw, cooked, juced etc) , and the furniture from them crafting table can I make? Is it f.eks possible to make clothes with the new wool form llamas? Some way to make maybee toys, or electronics, fixing up cars? I loved all the items you could make in both sims 2 and sims 3, but I haven't found a way I like to sell them yet.

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      luthienrisingluthienrising Posts: 37,628 Member
      With the Dine Out GP, you can own and manage a restaurant. The same for a retail business with the Get to Work EP and a veterinarian's office with Cats and Dogs. With Nifty Knitting, you sell handmade things on Plopsy.
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      crocobauracrocobaura Posts: 7,382 Member
      The garden sales table is good. You can sell produce, baked goods, candles, etc, from it. You can use it to sell either from your lot or from a community lot, so it saves money if you don't want to start a business straight away.
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      YautjagirlYautjagirl Posts: 351 Member
      edited July 2021
      Without mods you can't have a ''real'' retail business in your house lot, but you can make a retail lot that also have a living part and bring your family there to kinda simulate it.
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      Dida_QuickswitchDida_Quickswitch Posts: 290 Member
      That sounds like a good option. How does it works with kids/teenager and curfew, and I assume I have to stop by the home lot once in a while to pick up bills?
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      YautjagirlYautjagirl Posts: 351 Member
      edited July 2021
      Well, there is not much curfew in S4 unless you have Parenthood (set through the family bulletin board), but it has very little impact, besides if your adult sim will also be on the lot it should be alright.

      I didn't try this option of living on a retail lot myself, so I can't really give any feedback, I hope someone who had will drop a comment here :)
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      troshalomtroshalom Posts: 1,095 Member
      For the retail lots in GTW you can have a separate apt in it, lock doors so employees and visitors do not enter. Not same as TS2, but similar.
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      Admiral8QAdmiral8Q Posts: 3,326 Member
      edited July 2021
      LittleMissSam has a mod that allows "Live-in" businesses. It's quite genius actually. I love it. Don't use it all the time, but really excellent.

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      Admiral8QAdmiral8Q Posts: 3,326 Member
      troshalom wrote: »
      For the retail lots in GTW you can have a separate apt in it, lock doors so employees and visitors do not enter. Not same as TS2, but similar.

      Your Sims can't live in it though.
      (Yes, lock doors so only they can go to certain parts, of course) ;)
      Before I got the "Live-in" mod, I did that so while playing, could technically run it indefinitely.
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      Nate_Whiplash1Nate_Whiplash1 Posts: 4,123 Member
      One of my Sims has a toilet store, and another sells used headstones
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      Admiral8QAdmiral8Q Posts: 3,326 Member
      Nate_Whiplash1 wrote: »
      One of my Sims has a toilet store, and another sells used headstones

      :D:D:D
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      Dida_QuickswitchDida_Quickswitch Posts: 290 Member
      Can you provide a link to the live in mod?
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