I built a starter apartment for my Let's Play!

[@gisela_oliveira]

the game not only needs a new category for decals and dirt, but also, the dirt, cracks and cobwebs should have negative envoirment, so they are actually something that bother the Sims and that you need to take it off

[@araiksims6322]

Someone once suggested that they could cost like -5 meaning you gain money from placing them but it costs money to remove them

[@sirgaykrovos]

bonus points if we could set it in a sim's Likes and Dislikes; 'cause sm ppl like creepy-looking places or general vibes

[@moonlitxangel5771]

So long as it's opt-in I'd be cool with that. Cuz I like the aesthetic of them living in squalor but I'd hate if they were uncomfortable all the time cuz of it.

[@erdbar718]

@@sirgaykrovos This! Or it has to be able to be deactivated, cause I want to play in spooky houses and if my sims would start complaining about that, it would really worsen gameplay for me

[@ElliedoGaming]

I wish they would add it to have sims who like certain things slowly changed their places too. or at least the dirt aspect of it. like if left alone, a slob sim who likes grime would end up with a moldy lot trait, trash plants, more clutter items ect..@@sirgaykrovos

[@akuku4519]

On the subject of elevators - imagine if in a few weeks they announced a separate stuff pack with elevators... My First Elevator Stuff 😭😂

[@FiveOnAFriday]

My thoughts too!

[@maiilustra]

Nervously laughing because I don't think it's impossible EA do this 😂😂😂😂

[@maiilustra]

They can do this as a Kit, so they won't have to put any other stuff to sell on a stuff pack

[@yorkyotome]

I can see it already: Upstairs Downstairs Kit. You get 2 elevators and one spiral staircase with the ugliest swatches and like 3 new stair rails

[@AlinaProbably]

at least they made my first pet stuff free now

[@az25blue]

Love the ideas for the LP combining home chef hustle with the night market. Also love the idea of using woodworking and fabrication to make furniture to furnish the rental unit. Can't wait!

[@neemarina92]

did you know there was a white swatch for the washer and dryer with a coin slot? It would match well with your build!

[@mmwaveprincess]

Yes to this!!! I was also going to suggest there's a swatch with a coin slot to make them look like commercial machines/laundromat machines but I couldn't remember which one 😅! I hope James sees your comment!!

[@rogueblackfish3625]

I was also thinking this, he almost selected it then changed at the end, I was like, gah! missed opportunity! haha oh well

[@iloveyourunclebob]

Ah thank you. I'll have to change my laundromat.

[@HeyItsAmyZing]

Okay you just blew my mind! I never use the white swatch so I had no idea!

[@mollieherlocker5918]

I love the idea of Laird doing Home Chef Hustle stuff funded by her stolen bottle of nectar and getting back into her dumpster diving hobby. I dunno if it was intentional, but you might want to add a fire alarm and sprinklers. Sprinklers would make sense in a former commercial space, I think. Very excited for this though! (I also 10000% agree that we need a separate category for decals. If Maxis doesn't do it, hopefully TwistedMexi can make it happen in BBB)

[@christineraake8891]

You should make the pool green! I feel like this place wouldn’t have the best pool maintenance💀 excited for the new let’s play!

[@zlakkuma]

I think the acess to the roof could be from outside! Like a fire stars, ladder from High School Years, would look cool!

[@clarebo]

Good suggestion!

[@sherylAA]

Yes I agree also. :)

[@AKA_Studios]

Speaking of HSY, I wonder if the sneak out window works in apartments

[@zlakkuma]

@@AKA_Studios i assume it does when you're load in the lot

[@clarebo]

@AKA_Studios the sneak out function really only works if you get the prompt to sneak out from another student. You can use the window in any lot, but Sims will only use it if they can't get out any other way. When the sneak out event happens, you can actually click on the window and a sneak out option appears, without the event, the window doesn't give you the sneak out option.

[@brookelambright6727]

Handiness tip Hey James. Just a tip real quick- use the knitting basket to make friendship bracelets a bunch. It levels up handiness super fast.

[@GentlethemJoey]

I had no idea! Thank you! I wish there were broken items you could buy so you HAVE to repair them. It’s so boring forcing my sims to read books to level up their skills prefer for them to DO rather than just read.

[@shannaandersonzongo8128]

@@GentlethemJoey you can buy them upgrade parts from the computer and have them start upgrading stuff to build skill. I think sinks have an upgrade option they can work on without any skill at all. Maybe also toilets.

[@Hunter_VanderMatthews]

I love how the downstairs hallway is clean with vibrant paint so tenants and guests walk into another room and just have the enthusiasm melt off their faces.

[@jesslove8035]

You should also host pot lucks and steal all the food the people bring to sell on the home chef hustle table when starting up

[@_icebergslim]

PLEEEEEEASE dumpster dive for new furniture in the shared space. I had a friend that lived in a boarding house and in their shared space they’d grab random furniture they found on the side of the road and put it in there. They had all kinds of things that made zero sense. lol.

[@Astrid-88]

Exactly. LOL That's what I was doing with my roommate before. It was a lot of fun. And I still have some of the furniture I found. First they served our shared space, now they serve my own house.

[@BlackCatGodess]

I hope you involve Sandlewood in this let's play! After all the effort to match up Reginald's branch of the family to Nina and Angus, it would be nice for Sandlewood to get some attention

[@jakisasnak]

Sweet build! The washer and dryer actually have a texture that have a coin slot on them so you can use it as a “pay per wash” machine! It would be a great addition to a shared space if they had to “pay” for laundry

[@burpingcricket]

Can I suggest a woodworking table somewhere in the common area? I think it makes more sense than for Laird to have it in her room. Although the thought of her finding sawdust in her bed is quite funny. 😄

[@luqmanroslan224]

I can’t wait for the actual letsplay. Your video always make my day

[@nolocri]

It would be great if at the end of the let's play Laird would come back here as a landlord and renovate everything!

[@lagritsalammas]

Hey, James. Since you're quite an active builder I wanted to point out one little thing I noticed when you were placing down wooden floors. This is nitpicking at its finest but please bear with me. In most historic builds, wooden floorboards were almost always placed perpendicular to the wall with windows, so the floorboards run towards them. That was because wood is a living, breathing material, contracting and expanding in time, depending on air moisture. Having floorboards run parallel to the windows made the irregularities more visible due to shadows created from the sun hitting the floorboards, thus it was avoided. This is especially true for narrow builds like townhouses or shop houses where the side walls were the load-bearing ones carrying the weight of beams, and floorboards were placed on the beams perpendicularly. Maybe something you can take into account for additional realism when building in the future 🤓

[@AlinaProbably]

honestly, this a very nice bit of trivia!

[@anxious_and_avoidant]

Fascinating!

[@twentysevenswans]

im gonna hear this comment echoing in my head every single time i build or draw now thank you lol this is actually so cool

[@berg_ahorn]

thank you for sharing! will keep that in mind for all of my future builds

[@Ambyr95]

❤ fun facts 🎉 love it

[@ladyamarilla]

love waking up and enjoying a cup of coffee with a new James video; great start to my day ^-^

[@meghanswanson3661]

It’s giving grungy hostel vibes and I’m here for it. James’ builds and let’s plays definitely inspire me to embrace more chaos in the game 🙃

[@songofruth]

In old, old TV and movies, there would always be that one tenant in a boarding house that would have a secret hot plate.

[@alialo7322]

Not me sitting in my dorm with my secret hot plate right next to me

[@GentlethemJoey]

And dorms. 😂 Always forbidden appliances and candles. Lmao

[@QueenofFlannelColors]

I was that person in my first military dorm. Neighbors didn’t complain when I was making them burgers and no bake mac and cheese 😂

[@Libertaro-i2u]

And I wouldn't be surprised if at least one tenant in a boarding house or SRO would have a secret bucket or camping toilet. Imagine having to share a bathroom with 3 or more total strangers every darn day!

[@atllauren]

Love this as a starter property. I was hoping the starting property would be a really seedy motel, but I think this kind of boarding house works even better!

[@jessicamariedee6015]

I’ll tell you right now, I was fighting for my LIFE with gremlins, mold, and dust on last night. You’ll love it.

[@MissRoux]

Are you playing with one sim or multiple? I could not imagine the work and stress to manage those things AND having a family or multiple sims 🤭

[@jessicamariedee6015]

@@MissRoux 1 with the part time handyperson career. By the time I finished fixing the gremlin damage, a landlord task would trigger, then I’d have to go to work. I’d have to come home to clean puddles and mold. My apartment maintenance rating is really high though.

[@GentlethemJoey]

I forgot about gremlins! 😂 I never use the lot challenges (except prairie grass if I have animals to eat it). What a great way to develop your handiness.

[@jessicamariedee6015]

@@GentlethemJoey level 8 in one session 😂

[@blaketaylor1468]

The goal should be to end up renovating Bigwallet Emporium into an Apartment complex!

[@brendamccloughan7785]

your lets plays are always sooo much fun and i love that you put them on youtube so i can watch them. As for the "home chef" selling table thats an awesome idea. looking forward to the new lets play

[@blindleaf2713]

Yes, you can enter build/buy mode and buy stuff for shared area, as long as you are loaded in your own unit and not visiting someone else unit. And as long as you don't try to structurally change other units. For example, you can change the doors between shared areas, but you cannot change the doors to a unit someone else is renting. You can repaint exterior of shared walls, but not the ones for other units. You can also upgrade appliances. The most annoying part about shared spaces is that you are pretty much the only one who bothers to clean them. And other renters keep starting to make cakes and then just leave the batter out. Well that and radiator fires.

[@strangeduckling]

I wonder if the the chores system from DU works with tenants? If not, that will be a mod to keep an eye out for, haha

[@blindleaf2713]

I hired a maid 😅

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

I really like the idea of integrating home cheff hustle as a way to make money at the start!

[@csteenblok]

I hope Krista makes an appearance in the new let’s play. She has to be the nosy neighbor!

[@cjhaedaten8711]

what's really needed for this pack is a no loading screen mod, that if you want to visit an occupied room, it just shows immediately rather than go on a loading screen again, it'll be really annoying for some people with not so good computer

[@shannaandersonzongo8128]

I’m excited for the new let’s play and I think the food stall at the night market is a cool idea too! Maybe also go set up at the flea market in city living and the fenwick fair, eco living makers market etc. As someone who’s lived that festival vending life, I can say part of it is all the random types of events you go vend at and weird places you travel.

[@MajikAce]

So, when the dryer gets bugged and won’t dry clothes the fix is put it in your household inventory and then manually drag it back out and for whatever reason it gets fixed. Keep that in mind for your LP. Gl!

[@echung168]

James should turn that 48 bedroom Australian house rentable and maybe play with it as a spin-off or challenge, that would be interesting to see the chaos with that many people EDIT: Just Googled it, it was 19 bedrooms. LOL!

[@acaciahathaway7799]

Ask James Turner and thou shalt recieve! I was looking for my first apartment complex to start playing the for rent pack with! Thanks so much! I personally love to start at the bottom and rise to the top! This build is a beautiful start!

[@KatherineMoon616]

Hey! Im currently playing this apartment, just bought the pack. i have other two rooms occupied by sims but none of them are using the shared spaces. Is it just for me or have u had any problems like this?

[@alicedougie]

That lighting looks amazing with seasons! Excited for laundry chaos 😅

[@PlasmaRevolution]

Hi James, just thought you'd like to know that, if you put in the thermostat from Seasons, you can link all the ACs and Radiators to it. So you can change the temperature of the entire building at once. But you have to link each AC one at a time, and I think it's the same with the Radiators too!☺️💖

[@GrannyGooseOnYouTube]

The thing about stains and mold being called decorations, is that they're going to add to the value of the apartment, whereas in reality they should detract from it.

[@victoriab8186]

it would be an interesting setup if they set some of them priced at 0, and some of them priced at negative values - so if you were really pushed for money, you could lower the value of your house and make it look grimy, but get that money 'back' in your wallet instead

[@carmenphoon]

James, you capture the essence of a S.E.A shophouse perfectly. This is what a student/employee housing would roughly look like (minus the swimming pool) from where I am from. This is great, thanks! I feel right at "home" watching you build this! 😂

[@cls3282]

This seems like it would work for a university play through as student housing

[@stephp4198]

This kinda makes me think of a halfway house. I mean Laird did grow up on a nectar farm. 😬 Maybe she had a little nectar problem and is finally getting her life together. Good for her! 😂

[@HannahBoBabe]

Oooh i love this! What about just working as the handyperson for the first week of gameplay or so to build up some money/skill build + do the maintenance events and 'tip' yourself, so that laird can use that money to buy the homechef hustle stuff + pay for ingredients? Then once everything is a little more stable she quits as the handyperson and works the nightmarkets full time?

[@cecilierasmussen7442]

A games console and an outdoor chess table could be nice additions + maybe a swing set Maybe give one of the other tenants a pet and the things that go with it? I just love the idea of pets chilling out among the sims.

[@SchadenfreudeFrau]

A lot of places do programs where first time homebuyers can get a historic or blighted property for $1, and then the buyer has a year to bring it up to code. You could start your Let's Play with a barely liveable old home/complex, and then instea of saving up to buy a rental your Sim could just slowly fix things up as they could afford to and go from just having a bare spare room for rent to eventually restoring the whole place into apartments.

[@SynthographerJames]

James Turner is the Greatest Sims 4 Builder in the World !!

[@emilyannsarah]

a shared laundromat would be cool! also the food table is a great idea, my sim makes a ton of money now by selling from the food table. tip, the fruit preserves from the canning mechanic in cottage living makes a good profit when selling them on the food table 😉

[@user89389]

I can't wait for this LP! :) Also, for anyone wondering, we can have spiral staircases now thanks to our wonderful modders! thepancake1 and MizoreYukii made working spiral staircases. They're actually really really good, even the animations look nice! Hopefully soon we can have some without mods too, but... y'know, while we wait, the modding community got our backs.

[@anxious_and_avoidant]

These types of apartments are the most exciting to me about this pack. Boarding/dorm style houses with mostly shared space. It makes it more exciting (since the other apartments load separately) for interacting with neighbors.

[@iloveyourunclebob]

Yeah I'm really excited to get the University living feel of communal housing while actually being able to use an oven.

[@KealaEM]

You can use the Realm of Magic portals behind a door and they work like functional elevators.

[@cezrevell7134]

I think Laird selling food at the night market to start off with is a great idea! Maybe she could only do it on certain days, similar to how Lady could only sell nectar on certain days maybe? At least to get you some simoleons to start with?😀

[@selkiefluff]

Thank god you built individual showers. School is one thing, but I think I would sooner grow mold on my body than ever shower butt naked in front of my neighbours, how horrific to think about LOL

[@andreamyob9458]

I wish there was a cc version of the buffet table which is less posh. Just a plastic folding table with 5 slots on it that you can fill in the same way

[@gogogadgetkat]

I LOVE the idea of incorporating Home Chef Hustle gameplay into this Let's Play. I think that's a great way to explore gameplay we haven't used yet and it works great thematically with the night markets. Such a good idea!

[@chattercat9]

This pack makes functional trailer parks possible 🎉

[@anurlailika]

I really love the food stall idea!! It will be a lot of fun to watch

[@marissaosman]

The bar works so well there because I imagine it used to be a store counter that the landlord didn’t bother removing and the tenets made it into a bar

[@avian946]

Look at James saying he’ll use the woodworking table. Haha! Looking forward to the new let’s play 🎉

[@qertgaming]

to keep the facade going, please lock all the shopfront doors so sims use the main door

[@lydhicks20]

What I'm thinking is that I could use for rent with the university pack. The thing i always hated about the uni pack was the accommodation options. I'm thinking for rent could be great. I may have the shared facilites be the kitchen, lounge and bathrooms. The units could be the dorm rooms, this way you could have several households in the same dorms without having to join the households. If you had multiple sims in a household you could just make several rooms into one unit.

[@keelycat4]

I did this in my Let’s play I’m posting tomorrow! I also disliked the housing accommodations with discover uni, so I built my dorms on the library lot. I ended up making traditional dorms and suite style dorms. They worked out mostly well. You just have to make sure you place extra people in the other dorms. At first it was super empty 😹

[@MademoiselleRed1390]

Yes, starting as a tennant, using the selling table and being a repair person sounds perfect for the initial stages of the next LP. It didn't make sense to start as a property owner even if cheap. Let's get there over time.

[@rothebear]

I like the idea of cooking and selling the food to earn money. Once Laird has enough money, she should buy a building that has a restaurant at the bottom and rental apartments above! She can run the “restaurant” as well as make money from rent until she can build a huge fancy apartment building with lots of units! It would be really cool to build some mixed use buildings with shops at the bottom and flats on top!

[@wandaXmaximoff]

I know we all hate the pre-order bonus content, but For Rent comes with a grill on wheels that is perfect for a night market food stall.

[@justjenn1427]

Yea laundry mayhem!! I'm so excited for this series to start 😀

[@heather_bee]

I do like the idea of building up Laird's handiness before she becomes a landlord. I think the woodworking table is is gameplay that would get boring to see after a couple of episodes if I'm being real, because it's an old element of the game that many of us used so often. She could have an "Appliance Store" where she takes crummy objects and fixes and upgrades them to work on her Handiness and then sells them?

[@rachelsnyder9005]

When i was playing around with this pack last night, i notice that when i was renting out just beds and having that shared space for everything else my tenants wouldn't recognize maintenance done in shared spaces unless i was loaded into their lot. So to prevent revolts you'll have to load into their lots to do maintenance inspections on shared appliances.

[@MissRoux]

May I ask you a question? As a landlord, can I ask someone that is not part of my household to rent a unit from the building I'm living? Thank you so much in advance.

[@samara.morgan]

Wow, that's bad. This game is too buggy, WTF EA?

[@DoveJS]

James, I don't recommend increasing the number of Sims possible on a lot for one reason: the Sims become buggier the more individual AIs the game has to control at once. It might sound funny at first but they will actively struggle to respond to anything or take care of themselves because of lagged or buggy queues plus all of the expansions adding in things (turn off NAPS for sure, don't allow any pets or water balloons although adding in the water slide would be funny and an homage to the old one lol.) I also predict a bunch of Sims will be in sync with certain actions which could break immersion. This can already happen with 20 Sims on a lot but admittedly your family reunions weren't so bad while you had boosted the max number of Sims in a household. I still predict it won't be much fun but feel free to test this first with Sim Science! Maybe your PC can handle it better and maybe the game has gotten better about juggling a ton of Sims. That said, I love the idea of using Home Chef Hustle to make the money to buy or build her own apartments and if Lairdy focuses on woodworking and cooking for the Night Market stall, then maybe Wren should do dumpster diving, theft, and if you're willing to go back to such frustration, fabrication and the freelance career that uses it! (Alternatively, I petition for Wren to become a spellcaster and learn a bunch of spells to mess with people but also repair things found in the dumpster which are burnt.) I'd also vote for having some of the relatives we never saw get aged up and move into the same apartment building with them! lol dealing with a werewolf will help Laird increase her handiness skill on top of the maintenance events.

[@officialbailey6029]

All I've wanted in the game since Discover University was to be able to build realistic dorms and now I can, and I'm so excited!! Apartment style dorms, communal dorms with common rooms and kitchenettes, etc. are going to be so much fun and bring life back to my university gameplay :)

[@TeruteruBozusama]

22:27 I think it makes sense, I lived somewhere it could be nearly 40°C, and the bins became soft and the trash would fall out of the bottom sometimes.

[@cameragirlcarmen]

I love your builds, your sense of how colors should pair together is amazing! It is not easy to mix all those vivid colours on a shell and still make sense and look good!!!

[@ragstoroblin7080]

That’s actually perfect. You can grow food, make goodies, and make furniture and sell it all at the night market on top of being a handyman! That works! So looking forward to the next let’s play. 🤩

[@lastraysofsun]

You could put the Reduce and Recycle lot challenge on and use the dumpster to dive for some furniture?

[@MindiiSimii]

The fun thing about playing with laundry, will be the fact that if you are a landlord (I know you are playing as a tenant) but if you are a landlord, you will be working on your handiness skill.

[@eshapena5203]

James before you start the series you should definitely get a random sim to purchase the building to be the Landlord. I'm not sure if the game assigns someone if you don't. I wanted to play as a tenant in my game and I didn't have a Landlord so I had to go make one.

[@Meggie_B]

This reminds me of a hostel! The buffet table and laundromat are perfect and then the rooms being just beds are exactly like that. Usually the rooms also have a private toilet and shower with a shared sink because they are meant to be shared by random strangers.

[@lifewith.r9510]

i cant wait for your lets play for this pack!!

[@iloveyourunclebob]

Communial housing paired with the My Little Neighborhood mod will give us lots full of life and I'm so excited. I don't know how well it's working with For Rent yet, but if it works I highly recommend My Little Neighborhood to pair with it. Built a park on the lot? Click your door and set my little neighborhood to "Park next door". Janitor shows up once a day to clean up after the kids. Toddlers will come with oarents too, so try to add a few toddler friendly items to the park. Want your apartment above a bar or cafe? "Bar next door/cafe next door" barista/bartender shows up for a set time to tend the counter and clean up. Just lock your entry doors because your computer and stuff is still always more entertaining.

[@MoshiBeans]

So excited for this new let’s play!!!

[@MiamoryHJ]

I love the idea of home chef hustle start! :D

[@BasicOtter]

So, can you combine the roommate feature from Discovery University with this, and start out the Let’s Play with a roomie in a cramped bunk bed room? 😅

[@BWCxJSM]

If you're focusing on cooking and handiness, maybe work up to own a bed and breakfast! One of the previous videos, you pointed out that you could set leases for one day and did the hotel. This may work the same way! You could even start the b&b as run down and work on building it up.

[@samanthairish311]

This house reminds of the shared home I stayed at in South America when I was doing outreaches there !

[@HelyaRavn]

I am dreaming of that decal and grime section in build buy x) Let's make it happen! Can't wait for your Let's Play videos, too :)

[@maja-kehn9130]

I can´t wait for Lairdy's own let's play. LET'S GO!

[@charivnick]

I really hope they fix the tenants pay + taxes thing, the whole DLC looks and feels amazing to play, I luv it!

[@juju_magumbo6175]

So excited for the LP!! Great build!!

[@Rosebud_official]

The door that’s permanently closed. Kind of reminds me of Europe too. I’m American but whenever I’ve visited, I feel like I see though sometimes. Also I know we’re kind of getting ahead of ourselves, but I think it would be really funny if she fell in love with one of her tenants in the let’s play.

[@pandas_crochet_corner]

I love the idea of using the home chef stuff for early revenue and setting up a night market stall! Maybe not the wood working table since it makes sense that Laird would fail as a landlady and need to develop the skill.

[@Rvth_]

I filled Tomarang with James and Deli's builds. So glad there's another one. 🥰🥰 I'm also very excited for the next let's play. Upload it alreadyyyyy!

[@sakkora888]

City Living Elevators are available to add to builds... and can now change windows and stuff in San Myshuno

[@ewgrosshaley]

love the home chef hustle idea

[@LenaDieters11]

I love the idea of using home chef hustle as a start!

[@tortledimlr4841]

Good news! Laundry does work if its in shared spaces and you will see other sims doing laundry in there, but the laundry won't be taken care of by the other sims xD

[@MademoiselleRed1390]

I'm so hyped for this. I love the idea of the rooftop garden. Yes, the buffet table should be in the pink flamingo hotel rather than here.

[@susenkrogh]

Bought for rent and home chef hustle today and used the james promo hoped it worked as it didn’t say if it did. Love the idea of using home chef hustle. I had that thought just seconds before you said it. Eager for Laird to show up and earn her fortune:)

[@nekokitwolf]

I like the thought that you try to gather furniture slowly by dumpster diving to prepare for your future landownership.

[@FightBoredom]

This reminds me of the hostel I stayed in when I was in Sydney. My friend and I rented a room with bunkbeds and the bathroom was shared.

[@MayaM-yt3mk]

I can't wait for this lets play!

[@karebear3152]

It definitely looks like a rundown boarding house. That's a great start for Laird. The challenge is called RAGS to Riches after all. everyone has to start somewhere.

[@rainydaysewing1166]

I love that building. I need it for my game

[@owens_shmoens]

you can find laundry in the appliances section if you go by item category instead of room category.

[@clarebo]

That's what I do. Appliances, then miscellaneous.

[@anthony3032]

I'm using the chef hustle table to sell food and make money to buy a place and become a landlord but it's really slow. Also, instead of the garage door you could use the murals that you can paint. You can cover one side of the building with it.

[@Delorkay]

Wooo loving seeing all these apartment builds

[@suan333]

Can't wait for the Let's play!