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How detailed do you furnish units for 'for rent'
Atreya33
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I am trying to furnish a built for 'for rent'. I am trying to decide if I should make furnished apartment units or empty units to decorate when I move in tenants. There is also an in between solution with only basic furniture (kitchen counters, beds, tables and chairs) or only bathroom and kitchen fixtures. What do most of you do? How far do you go in furnishing/decorating and why? Feel free to explain in the comments.
How detailed do you furnish units for 'for rent' 44 votes
Fully furnished and decorated
43%
19 votes
Basic furniture
34%
15 votes
Only fixtures in bathrooms and kitches
22%
10 votes
No furniture at all.
0%
0
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'You are incentivized to make your rental units nice for your tenants in The Sims 4 For Rent. It will result in a better rating and happier tenants, but you can play the role of an evil, greedy landlord if you want to.'
Quote from this article from The Sims Community.
So it depends on what you aim for, i guess. Maybe you can ask for higher rent if the unit is fully furnished?
And you probably will have longer or shorter loading times if you have to fix something, depending how many objects the unit contains.
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I mostly want to use the new pack to have more place in small worlds. I don't want to play the landlord in every build. So 'depends what you aim for' is something to consider.
exception being 3 huts I have in Sulani entirely dedicated to the whole " furnish as you go" thing but even those I did build the huts before i moved sims in
I also don't like to refurnish my sim houses too often so yeah I'm hoping that making it rentals property rather than tenants will avoid that if i kick sims out or whatnot
might use empty units but at the same time I don't think I will because I would like to use those 99 units wisely
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But if I were planning to have apartment neighbors that were functionally NPCS, or if I were planning to spend more time playing as a landlord, then I would probably add at least some decorations and furniture.
I might make exceptions if I have units that are meant for short term rent - like students, retired sims, workers on a project etc. Then I'd provide fully equipped which would include all tables/beds/chairs etc, but no clutter. My rule is then that the tenant is allowed to only change swatches + add stuff that come from their personal inventory. When they move out all stuff that can be placed in their inventory must be cleared from the apt
Mostly this.
with some more furnished, sure.
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And I only placed the "essential" items in the houses.
I'm hoping that this might force my neighbors to use the community areas (aka .... my shopping center, which is actually individual rooms but looks like connected buildings)
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My one exception so far has been the Long Term Resident Motel I build on the Old Penelope Lot, because that's supposed to look like a cheap Motel. I'll probably do the same for the "hotel" I plan to put in Del Sol Valley.
Of course, I have zero plans to actually play as a landlord at any point. The closest I plan to get is to motherlode the Landgraabs a few times and have them buy the lot so I can set up rules for buildings I want to have rules. I just want a few more options to have sim households living in world (as opposed to pretending they're living in the shell houses.)
For the gallery, I prefer to do fixtures only, so that it's a nice mostly blank canvas for others to use.