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How Is Roommate Rent Amount Determined?
How do I get the most money out of these bums?
Better beds? Each roommate needs his own room? Total house value?
If you know, let me know.
Better beds? Each roommate needs his own room? Total house value?
If you know, let me know.
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Interesting. Half the regular bills...
So you don’t think the type of beds or them sharing a room matters at all?
I’ve seen people say roommates pay rent twice/week: Wed & Sun but idk.
Of course, had we not been in an apartment, and had our bills went up each week, the roommates "rent" would have been even more pathetic then it was. It never even got to 200 a week, which is just ridiculous. I doubt I'll be using the roommates much, unless a storyline calls for it, definitely not a way a offset bills.
But, as far as I figured out, it's determined by the value and quality of your furnishings/appliances.
So overall house value? Hmm...
How many roommates did you have?
I got $400 before with 2 roommates but I can’t remember if that was the total or from each one.
Sounds like a few real life roommates I've had in the past.
Good question, not sure.
Do you get bills off the grid?
Nope!
Still doesn’t feel like a lot of money, but I might try decorating/upgrading the rooms a bit and see if that improves things.
I wish the rent could be edited with MCCC like the we can edit the bill amount.. I don't see it there, so I hope it will be an option eventually. For now my solution is to add the right amount to the household funds by cheating, or else I wouldn't even bother getting a roommate, they're really annoying sometimes, my current roommate gets a new different boyfriend every week *eyeroll*.
> ... sigh. I just tried roommates for the first time. A $120k house with super nice furniture and nice beds and individual bedrooms and still only $250 out of each roommate. I made $750 and bills were $7k. I have a feeling $250 might be the max which is ridiculous because these NPCs can literally generate free simoleons. I literally checked their household funds from manage worlds. Still 20k. They eat everything from the fridge, leave dishes out, put books everywhere, and never flush the toilet, but they get to live with my played sims for nothing...
Hello! I built a townhouse and shared it on my sims gallery and it's valued at $187k, I played the roommates feature yesterday and after 1 sims week, I received my roommates rent payments amounting of $819 each :smile: I currently have 3 roomies, 1 young adult, and 1 young adult couple sharing a bed. Each room has a bed, table, computer, dresser and mini bookshelf. For the common area they have full bath, living and dining and the rooftop is the recreation area. I also have this observant trait added to my player sim, that way I can check their traits right away, and if they are slob then I won't be accepting them haha
> I wish the rent could be edited with MCCC like the we can edit the bill amount.. I don't see it there, so I hope it will be an option eventually. For now my solution is to add the right amount to the household funds by cheating, or else I wouldn't even bother getting a roommate, they're really annoying sometimes, my current roommate gets a new different boyfriend every week *eyeroll*.
I was watching youtube videos regarding roommate feature then I found this mod SNB(Sim Naitonal Bank) by simsrealist and it is a cool feature wherein you can adjust property taxes, bills and get some loans too :wink:
I wonder if the amount of space the roommates room has matters. I gave the Pleasants a roommate, and I was shocked at how low the rent was... lol, of course I gave her a very small room with only a cheap single bed, and there is a downstairs bathroom available to her, and most of the house is open. All the roommate does is bake cakes.... lol..... but she is skinny rofl....