Have you built an apartment?

[evile420]

i read on some site... not too sure where, that you cant make beach lots into apartments, it wont work.

[atlbynghtst]

yes the tutorial at simwiki is excellent

[winterglow]

I'm trying to build my own condo in these days and the work is proceding  fine at the moment ^^
thanks to "changelotzoning" cheat  

I've only a question now I'm working with residential lot mode when I will finish and I will have changed my lot into an apartment lot
I will see all the content out of the apartments?

[vickylougrl]

I been looking for apartment buildings to download and can't find any even on sims 2 maxis site.  I not too good at building myself so waiting on talented folks to upload some.

[ancienthighway]

EA mentioned in the AL readme file that beaches and apartments don't mix.

[missflor86]

i dont understand why there isnt any simple way to do things in these games haha. i dont wana stress myself out trying to build one

[blueberrybruise]

Well, it's going alright but one big snag right now: I had intended to house 6 seperate sims in an apartment building. Spent bunches of time building this really nice apartment building with lots of amenities, looked up the cheat to re-zone it and had my sims begin moving in and I found out only 4 playable sims can live in the building. However, I may be happy if I can duplicate the building and house 3 in each and let the rest fill up with other neighbors.

[abaris]

i read on some site... not too sure where, that you cant make beach lots into apartments, it wont work.

Oh, nice one!

That explains why I always get the message "invalid lot" when I want to rezone. Takes a whole lot of fun out of custom apartments, since I wanted them to be on the beach.

Spent bunches of time building this really nice apartment building with lots of amenities, looked up the cheat to re-zone it and had my sims begin moving in and I found out only 4 playable sims can live in the building. However, I may be happy if I can duplicate the building and house 3 in each and let the rest fill up with other neighbors.

Another goody I didn't know of. Guess I save my time then, since it seems rather pointless to create apartments.

Sometimes I wonder about the thought process of the developers. Beach Condo? Who needs that.´And, four Sims are more than enough. Yeah, right. Everyone needs an apartment when they are able to control less Sims than in a single house.

[ancienthighway]

Household limits in apartment units are the same as on residential lots.  Any combination of sims and pets up to 10 combined with a maximum of 6 pets or 8 sims.  With this limitation, only 4 apartment units may be occupied by playable sims.  You can have more units, but any over 4 have members of the social groups move in.

[JohnnyB]

I've been able to build and play apartments and am now testing shops on the ground floor.  I tried one variant with a restaurant and a shop.  The restaurant worked fine but I kept having trouble with the shop operating like it should.
What I did was create the building as a residence first, then change it to apartmentbase.  
I understand that if you build first in community mode and then change the zoning to apartment base the shops will work normally.
One thing I have not been able to do is advertise for roommates!
I think my newspaper is somehow involved.  I haven't been able to find a job via the newspaper since before Vacation came out.

JohnnyB :angel:

[andrewplay599]

I been looking for apartment buildings to download and can't find any even on sims 2 maxis site.  I not too good at building myself so waiting on talented folks to upload some.

There are a least 20 uploaded apartments here on insimenator under residential in the comunity download section. Hope this helps.

[quinmalkiq]

Hello,
I have Apartment Life and made a real Nice Apartment.
4 Apartments with a Driveway each etc... The only
problem is, I followed advice and zoned the Apartment
up right, Letterbox changed and all... But the second I
went into Neighbourhood the Apartments Disappeared...
Is there a way I can get the Apartment back?? if so please
reply ASAP...

Thank you for your time...

[hume6773]

i have builded acouple of apartments and mine work good in the game

[TayterB]

I built a nice two story 10 unit apt complex zoned it and eveything then went back into the nieghborhood and when I tried to move the family those was no apts it said zero units and there was no pricing for the apartment

What did i do wrong

[Xtian913]

TatyerB, did you use the specific apartment front door for the apartments? Apparently you have to use a specific apartment door to designate that unit as an apartment.

I followed the tutorial on SimWiki and it worked like a charm for me! Built four units, all of them up & renting!