You have a mod/hack that is causing the problem. When was the last time you were able to go to a community lot? - pull out anything you downloaded from that date & try it again.

Really??  I have never had a problem ever doing that.  What kind of problems do you have?

Someone else may have a better solution but if it was me this was happening to I would move out all families so the apartment is not occupied, then change the lot zoning to residential, save & exit to neighborhood, go back in, replace the offending items, change the lot zoning back to apartments, save & exit to neighborhood, go back in, save & go back out, move the Sims back into the problem apartment & make sure it works ok.  It probably took longer for me to type this than it would to do what I typed.

SimGirl20 and Paden:  thank you for your kind words.

Yeah I can relate to personal things happening. My father died Monday after being sick with several cancers for a short while. It does take the desire to play away somewhat but on the other hand it is a sort of escape also.  I hope things are better with you now.

This is probably a stupid question but I am going to ask it anyway. Have you tried putting all body shop items (hair, clothes, jewelry, makeup etc) into your SavedSims folder & not in subfolders?

If you read your description & you were not you, would you have any idea what you were looking for? Can you be more specific? like color, how many bedrooms, bathrooms, - one-story? two-story? How big of a lot? landscaped? what EPs was it compatible with? in fact, what EPs do you currently have?

I have re-installed the game a couple of times & then I just gave up. It works fine the way I do it so I figure I have more important things to worry about    (I confess I have little patience)

Ahhh, that is because Bodyshop items refused to show up if placed in Downloads for me a couple of EPs ago. Which is fine with me, I am used to it now. 

Umm, there is a section on this very site (& a ton of other sites) where one can download pets that someone else has made. perhaps that is what SimCoffee would like to do...

Very interesting, Nalia; I have all EPs & I cannot use subfolders for outfits in the SavedSims file. 

that is probably CC that is not compatible; have you tried taking out all phone, computer & newspaper mods for instance?

since you made a backup you can put it back the way it was but N003 wasn't working then either was it? hmmmm... maybe someone else will have an idea - I am sorry 

you have enabled CC in your game?

double click on the Sims2package file & it will install in the correct location automatically with the Maxis Sims2package installer.