Sims 2 how to create an apartment

The Sim must be standing next to the door, and they must not have any other actions in their queue. Apartments are like normal lots, with some extra bits. Go to Buy Mode and buy a residential deed for apartment lot type mod to work. You can change the lot zoning back to community or residential by typing in: changelotzoning community, and: changelotzoning residential. Yes No. Not Helpful 3 Helpful 4. Unfortunately, no. If you don't have Apartment Life, you can make a residential lot that looks like an apartment, but you won't be able to rent out individual apartments or have multiple families on one lot.

Not Helpful 0 Helpful 4. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. By using this service, some information may be shared with YouTube. Each apartment doesn't have to be identical! Helpful 50 Not Helpful Most furniture that isn't built in will disappear when your sims move in. However, it's used when townie sims move into other apartments, so you'll see any furnishings if you visit their unit. Helpful 20 Not Helpful 5. Make sure that when using the "changelotzoning apartmentbase" cheat, no Sims are currently living on the lot.

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Correct - this apartment unit spans multiple floors but does not have any other doorways leading in or out see also next photo. Note how the second floor of the apartment doesn't have any doorways leading into the communal area. Incorrect - same apartment unit as the previous images, but the roof has access to the communal area.

Incorrect - backyard is open counts as an apartment with more than one entrance. Incorrect - backyard has a gate leading into the communal area. Correct - backyard does not have access to the communal areas. Correct - balcony does not have access to the communal area. Incorrect - an apartment balcony on a foundation may not have access to the ground at all. Correct - apartment balcony does not have access to the ground. Correct - this apartment unit does not have any other doors leading outside to the communal area aside from the Unique Separator and the Garage Door , and all rooms inside the unit are connected via a door.

The apartments do not have a door or pathway connecting them like a "suite". Incorrect - step-over fences cannot be used to divide areas in an apartment.

These two apartment units are separated by a single wall, and both of the units can be affected by neighbor noise. These two apartment units do not share a common wall — there is an empty room belonging to neither unit in between. Neither of these apartment units will be affected by noise from each other. A kitchen, a bed, some bathroom amenities The apartment unit should be a home! When you finalize your apartment lot, the mailbox should change, as shown above.

An apartment communal area is a place for the neighbors to chill out together. Do not convert an apartment to an apartment sublot e.

Do not use the boolProp aptBaseLotSpecificToolsDisabled false cheat to make structural changes, such as building walls or stairs, while the lot is zoned as an apartment of any kind. This will result in inconsistency with the apartment "base lot" and apartment "sub lots", and could possibly corrupt the lot.

Again, this will result in inconsistency and could corrupt the lot. The cheat can be used to resolve some issues though, such as date and outing rewards getting stuck outside of apartment units, unable to be picked up in normal buy mode. An experiment concludes that such an apartment functions normally, with the noticeable caveat that townie neighbors are able to freely enter an apartment.

See this thread at Mod The Sims for more details. However, it is possible to build a backyard located on the ground for an apartment that is situated on a foundation using an invisible meshless fence. See this thread for more details. The backyard will be considered part of the apartment, not the communal area. Categories Game guides The Sims 2 game guides Add category.

The Sim must be standing next to the door, and they must not have any other actions in their queue. You can change the lot zoning back to community or residential by typing in: changelotzoning community, and: changelotzoning residential.

You will have to load the lot, enter the cheat, exit back out of the lot to the neighborhood, then re-load the lot to make this method effective. The freebuild cheat allows you to edit all buildings — including the dorms from The Sims 4: Discover University and the active career buildings from The Sims 4: Get To Work.

Sims will now be able to visit and check into your hotel.