This is a house with front and back usage.
All service vehicles use the back entrance and the carpool, school bus, taxis, etc. use the front.
There is only one bedroom and the furniture covers just the bare needs, but it has an empty floor for future expansion
The lot is the smallest possible size (1 x 1), but it must be placed between two parallel streets at a distance of only one lot tile.
There are several options, but here is a neighborhood that has roads like that:http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=88461
There are no parking spaces or garage in the lot, so the family has to park in the street. There is one spot at the front and one spot at the back. Those spots are driveways recolored with frillen's invisibleDriveway, by permission included in the RAR. The recolor must be placed in the Downloads folder before the lot is used.

This lot has been modified with Mootilda's Lot Adjuster to shrink it and add the back road.

Lot Size: 1x1
Lot Price: 19985

Additional Credits:
Special Thanks to:
Mootilda for the LotAdjuster 1.1.
Find it at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=282409
Plasticbox for her/his tutorial and the idea to create city houses.
Find it at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=286909
Inge Jones for her Portal Revealer.
Find it at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=251392
and frillen for his invisibleDriveway.
FInd it at http://www.sims2you.dk/downloads.as...4&sorter=nyeste

This is a house with front and back usage, since some people miss city alleys in the Sims game. At least I do.
All service vehicles use the back entrance and the carpool, school bus, taxis, etc. use the front.

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q266/glasha24/Frontwithvehicles.jpg
The lot is the smallest possible size (1 x 1), but it must be placed between two parallel streets at a distance of only one lot tile.
There are several options, but here is a neighborhood that has roads like that:http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=88461
Although the cost of the lot is under 20,000, it is not a real starter since it is almost totally unfurnished. There are no parking spaces or garage in the lot, so the family has to park in the street. There is one spot at the front and one spot at the back. Actually, those are driveways recolored with frillen's invisibleDriveway, by permission included in the RAR. The recolor must be placed in the Downloads folder before the lot is used.

This lot has been modified with Mootilda's Lot Adjuster to shrink it and add the back road.

Lot Size: 1x1
Lot Price: 19022

Additional Credits:
Special Thanks to:
Mootilda for the LotAdjuster 1.1.
Find it at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=282409
Plasticbox for her/his tutorial and the idea to create city houses.
Find it at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=286909
Inge Jones for her Portal Revealer.
Find it at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=251392
and frillen for his invisibleDriveway.
FInd it at http://www.sims2you.dk/downloads.as...4&sorter=nyeste

Since we are now able to add roads to our lots, thanks to Mootilda's Lot Adjuster, (http://sumomo.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=282409), I thought it would be nice to have functional back alleys, but normally the roads are too far apart.

This is a very simple neighborhood with streets added at a reasonable distance (one and three lot tiles) behind the roads meant to be the front of the houses. I would have liked also a two-tile option, but SimCity4 won't let me do it.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q266/glasha24/2N.jpg

There are many great creations with simulated back alleys. Maybe with this neighborhood they can be functional.
It would be nice if the alleys could be seen in a different shade. Light gray, for example, but I don't think that is or will ever be possible.

Directions: This file should not be placed in the Downloads folder.. After extracting, it goes to My documents>EA Games>The Sims 2>SC4Terrains.

Beach lots can be placed in many places along the waterfront roads, but not everywhere.

This is the house of a lady artist in Madrid, as close to the original as I remember. There is a gallery where she sells her own and other's paintings. An ample apartment and a painting studio on the roof.

This is a corner lot, and can be placed only at a corner, since both streets are fully functional. Since living in the city doesn't allow for big garages, there is only one inside driveway and if your Sims have more than one car, they have to park in the street. Happily, they can. Also, the tenants use the front door to get in the car pool, taxis, airport cabs and the children's schoolbus, but the service don't (God forbid). They use the side street.


This is a fake rowhouse on a lot that was modified using Mootilda's Lot Adjuster in order to make it only 2X1, and add the side street. There is a shot below to show how it looks with other fake rowhouses next to it.

There is one known issue (not related to the Lot Adjuster). Sometimes, only when both street parking spaces are occupied, after the maid informs that she is finished, and collects her pay, instead of leaving just hangs around looking distressed. Mind you, this is after she's charged for the services, so it doesn't cost you. And anyway, after a short time her van vanishes and she just walks away.
Those street parking spaces are actually driveways recolored with frillen's invisibleDriveway, which frillen kindly authorized me to include here. You must place it in your downloads folder before you load the lot. Otherwise, they will show black.

Special Thanks to:
Mootilda for the LotAdjuster 1.1.
Find it at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=282409

Plasticbox for her/his tutorial and the idea to create city houses.
Find it at //www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=286909

Inge Jones for her Portal Revealer.
Find it at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=251392

and frillen for his invisibleDriveway.
FInd it at http://www.sims2you.dk/downloads.as...4&sorter=nyeste


The lot is almost totally unfurnished, except the gallery which doesn't have any merchandise yet, and the studio. if you don´t want a home business, it can be used to show the paintings to friends.
No CC, except the invisible recolor. And the price is a bargain.
Note:Actually, I have no idea about who lives in that house, but after seeing the gallery on the side street and the garret, I immediately filled in the blanks in my head.

Lot Size: 2x1
Lot Price: 48220

Not all retired Sims want to live their golden years in the beach or in the suburbs. Some of them are too used to city life and want to stay in the thick of it. To help them make ends meet, here is a small flat on top of a business so easy to run that it's almost offensive.
It is a video game room with six machines and generously supplied with snapdragons, which make the customers so happy that they will only leave when they are almost falling asleep. This is a business that quite literally runs itself. Your Sims only have to get the licence for a home business by phone, duly block all doors to their living quarters, open up shop... and forget about it. Your customers will come by themselves, spend some happy hours and go home only to be replaced by other suckers, and the cash will pile up.
All the owners need to do is regularly increase the entrance fee, every time the business upgrades its category, which will happen automatically as the golden stars accumulate. Once in a while clean the washroom, but the customers almost never use it.
All without any CC, hacks or cheats.
There is a small vegetable garden and fruit tree, one excercise machine, and a sewing machine. There is one bedroom and a guest room, two bathrooms and one parking space.
Of course, your lazy Sims don't have to retire to live here.
No CC.
Notice:The building is on a lot shrunken using Mootilda's Lot Adjuster in order to make it only 2X1, and is a fake rowhouse.
Finally, it is dirt-cheap: only 24,981.




Lot Size: 1x2
Lot Price: 24981

Additional Credits:
Mootilda for the LotAdjuster 1.1
You can find it at
Plasticbox for her/his tutorial and the idea to create city houses.
You can find it at

For all those simmers who like city living and small lots, but also want enough room for hobbies and gardening.
This is a fake rowhouse with an empty basement, a floor for hobby activities, also empty, and a greenhouse. Two bedrooms, two bathrooms and two driveways in the back. it also has one fruit tree.
It is unfurnished, excepting the bathrooms, and has a price of $30,789.
No CC but you need a small fix for full use (see below)
The lot is just 1X2.
NOTICE: Be advised that this lot has been shrunken using Mootilda's Lot Adjuster 1.1. It means that you cannot modify any structures within two tiles from either side, but you can add/remove windows or fences and repaint.

Also, normally the garden plots can't be placed on upper floors without distortions since they end up on the air, So, in order to play with the greenhouse as such, you need the GardenPlotFix by mike_1102 at:

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=229680
(not included), and follow the simple instructions.

Otherwise, the greenhouse can be used as a flower garden or sun room.

Thanks to:
Mootilda for the LotAdjuster 1.1
You can find it at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=282409
Plasticbox for her/his tutorial and the idea to create city houses.
You can find it at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=286909

Lot Size: 1x2
Lot Price: 30789