*ANOTHER* APARTMENTS TRAILER?! (The Sims 4: For Rent Gameplay Trailer Reaction) 

uhhhh such a great idea!

I had the exact same thought just an hour or so ago

Leash time is how often tenants pay, not how long they can stay. Edit: SimGuru Nova tweeted it wrong. Leash time is how often the tenants can leave without paying extra but they can stay indefinitely unless you evict them.

yes pls!

Earlier today on X, someone was saying that this would be good for making hotels. I think that Airbnb or Bread and Breakfasts would work better (since most hotels have things like restaurants, room service, automatic maid service, etc.) But it certainly gives us more options than we've had before. Even as an apartment, shared spaces could have pools, gyms, laundry, etc.

As long as a landlord is fair, I have no issue with them.

Lmao yeah and loves killing sims sometimes 🤣

based honestly

Or making them jump into a piranha pond...or having a toilet that catches fire....

I also just feel like if u don’t want to be a bad landlord u don’t have to be

I wanna see if he can get rich by blackmail! 🤣

There is actually a vid that Simsie posted about a year ago of Simsie getting rich by blackmail with a feature with StrangerVille. I’ll reply to u with a link if u wanna watch bestie!@@NannaP27

​@@NannaP27there was already a video on him trying to get rich via blackmail in Strangerville

It's the only thing I wanna see

@@NannaP27 indeed she already did a blackmailing rags to riches from the strangerville pack 🙌🏼

I wish there was a Ghosts Only option too

@@danithoCould do a fun haunted house and get money on the side!

As if we had any say in ghosts appearing. So basically that means no urns in the apartment allowed? 😅

​@@danitho I hope someone makes a mod for that!! lol

Yes, they also tend to make a mess (e.g. leave puddles). Some death types even give the ghost sims the ability to kill other sims (indirectly).

Yeah I don't understand her morality

@@ElfsArt24 I think it's less morality and more levels of absurdity - like landlords and being evicted etc are very common things to have happen while people dying after jumping into a piranha pond twelve times or posioning people is just absurd (and no one would think she might actually support that). Almost like landlords are too real/too close to home - she's drawn the line of animal cruelty too, like with the rags to riches horse challenges. It could also be from personal experience, cause she has mentioned in a stream a while ago that the house she was renting before she moved had black mould in her bedroom wall, so the whole landlords letting bugs/mould run rampant might be a bit of a sore spot? That would be my guess anyway

@@_thea_rose i totally understand it and probably won’t play as a landlord. but it still makes me laugh when there are many other things that would be considered too evil for non-simmers but are completely fine within the community

@@ruby8698 Oh yeah for sure. I guess there is just kind of a set of things that are objectively evil but are accepted in the sims community to the point where they aren't seen as evil anymore lol

This is because it's the current "cool" thing to do nowadays. Landlords have been getting A LOT of problems lately.. there was even a social event for landlords where people actually broke in and beat them up just because they're landlords.. People keep acting like all landlords are horrible people. There's a MASSIVE issue lately with the internet hearing like a handful of stories and taking that as suddenly it's like 99% of people are like this..

I really hope there is, but I’m not getting my hopes terribly high yet

Imagen having a horse in the apartment 🤣

I really hope that the tiny living rules apply too

Somebody asked one of the sim gurus if there was cross pack compatibility with the rules and they replied with a smiley emoji so I’m guessing we’ll have rules for “no (insert supernatural here)” and “no pets” at the very least.

​@@HLGamezdamn so you can be racist against vampires now

Thank you! On a serious note, constantly hearing this complaint is exasperating. Having simmers chuckle at drowning and starving their sims, getting kids taken away is good fun, but evicting is too far.... I could take it more seriously if the complaint was consistent across the board.

Seriously... The double standard is really annoying. I've seen people BBQ babies, but god forbid landlords exist. 🤣 I for one am so thankful for the added realism and gameplay/stories that I'm gonna get from this pack.

Like ONE disclaimer is enough, just have fun with it! It doesn't mean you are pro-landlords IRL!

Criminal is literally a career! I’m not sure why the community is being so sensitive towards this

100% was going to comment the same! It’s fine to have a Pufferfish Nigiri party. But god forbid people have items repossessed or someone provides housing to someone who cannot purchase their own 🤪.

What's your username so I can find your stuff on the gallery?

You just got me so excited

I want Kevin to play this pack sooo bad !! Unlike Kayla, I'm pretty excited to see an evil landlord !

i eagerly await the return of our Dear Leader

The duality of sims players 😂

I miss our Dear Leader, can't wait for him to properly rule all the Sims 4 houses, as it should have been all along

Omg, I didn’t even think of this. I need it

😂😂😂

Vampires update where you can collect rent in blood supply.

yesssssss brilliant

LMFAO

but you can do hotels with this pack to some degree :) I don't think hotels will be a thing tbh

⁠@@annoar9776you can, but again, you need to do A LOT of pretending for it to work… 😂 Hotels could’ve been included in this pack (you should also be able to buy a vacation home), but they’d rather release another expansion with barely any new gameplay cuz $$$$$

Honestly, I'm picking up that vibe as well, this 100% feels like the pathway to getting proper hotels

I can definitely see EA charging yet another 40$ for a feature that should have been in this pack or other precious packs.

If they have those cafeteria things from university and highschool years or something along those lines, a restaurant/buffet is more than feasible.

I know right!? I'm atleast glad that kayla read all the way through the blog post bc there were people who kept complaining about not getting stuff when it clearly said/showed that we would get it LMAO

Wholesome af!

I mean you could always play with more than 8 sims in a lot. They just weren't part of your household. That's exactly what will be happening here.. this is literally just City Living but you can build it yourself. Everyone knew this was eventually coming because it's been constantly suggested and demanded since City Living released.

They definitely took a very positive, community focused approach! 😊

Thats what i think many people are missing, you dont have to be a bad landlord, you dont have to be a landlord at all! You can finally have an in-law suit without having them taking up place in your houshold, you can have all of your esxtended family on the same lot as you (i actually try to have only 1-2 children per genoration specificly because i like having all the extended family in the house i am playing, i pre-plan the family tree so that everyone can fit in the 8 household limit) i know that in most cultures its very common to move out of your parants house as soon as you are able to, but in arab culture its very common for all the family to live in one big house, that is splited to some units, i always dremt for my own family to live this way so thats why i like making my sims live that way. The landlord aspect of the pack can be so much more than just being a landlord for profit

I mean while that part towards the end almost made me cry because thats exactly the type of thing Ill be doing with this pack; Nah Landlord is an Immoral Occupation by default because its simply resource hoarding.

​@@katmannssonAnd what should people who can't or don't want to purchase a home do?

i think its a bit more of a "landlords shouldn't exist to begin with" kind of approach. housing should not be kept from people and for a game like sims which a lot of people treat as an escape from reality, to add in rent which is such a real source of stress for so many can be a bit upsetting. i do agree about the gameplay possibilities, super excited for this pack.

Came to comment the same thing!

She posted her reaction, it was cute “Wait! Is that a kettle?!?”

I can’t believe it’s taken THIS long for a kettle lol

British and feel the same. Getting this pack for the kettle.

my dream would be fullfilled

I'm literally building something like this right now based on this trailer today!

I'm excited to make a jail and/or asylum. Make a Batman character that goes there to talk to Calendar Man and Joker lol.

I'm planning on a generational spaceship! :D

Youre making me even more impatient for the release!! that's such a good idea

I literally lol’d at my job 😂

Killing people doesn't hit as close to home as being a landlord because (hopefully) you don't deal with dead people on a daily basis, yet leases, rents etc are a very real and stressful concern of a lot of people. TL;DR killing a sim is fine because it's a lot less realistic than dealing with rent, which for a lot of people, is a daily struggle

@@SmileAway21 Good for you 👍

@@purplecosmonautMy biggest question is why are you all only stressed about this now? You’ve been had to pay rent in the Sims, and you had to pay it ON TIME or else your utilities would be shut off one by one and then your shit would be repossessed. That’s a constant threat in the Sims without any packs installed, as far as I’m aware. Not to mention that Landlords already existed in City Living and they were pretty chill. They would show up minutes after you contact them about an issue in your apartment and attempt to fix it assuming you didn’t block the issue with furniture. The only difference here is that you get to be in control and can CHOOSE to be as benevolent or as cruel of a landlord as you want to be, just as you can CHOOSE to be a benevolent Sim God that doesn’t torture or kill your Sims for your own amusement. I swear, this community makes big deals out of nothing and I find the double standards both what okay and what’s not okay to put in the Sims annoying. Like yeah, you don’t deal with death on a daily basis, but a lot of people deal with starvation. I don’t see y’all getting up in arms about starving your sims lol

@@pathetic2399calm down

It's been a good year

We have been finally heard

I... wouldn't say ranch horses is a banger tbh...

@@OnceUBellieveisn’t that pack made by another sims team ?

@@aaazzz8324 I think this was the team who created Highschool year

The blog post said it very clearly too. 😂 But I guess it's normal for this community to complain before confirming anything.

Amazing!!

There's a common theme in video games where it's fun to do blatantly wrong things in a fictional environment as long as they're far removed from your real life. I play Rimworld and will gladly allow a cannibal to join my settlement, but will refuse any misogynist or ableist. It's about escapism; I've never had a personal problem with a cannibal or a casual thief, but certainly have with misogynists and power-tripping landlords

Landlordism hits too close to home. Like, as a tenant I'm really not happy aobut paying for someone else's mortgage. It feels like I'm supporting a pyramid scheme. Like yeah if something goes wrong in the apartment it's the landlord's duty to fix it at their expense, _but that's what I'm paying them for_, had I owned the apartment I'd basically be paying myself.

Killing sims, breaking up marriages, starving children to get them taken away by social workers, finding creative ways to make their sims miserable.. oh no but being a landlord is a bridge too far lmao

@@vanguardiris3232 There’s a lot of things you can do in the sims that aren’t too far removed from your real life. For example, plenty of people refuse to feed their children irl and as a result the child either dies or get taken away by social workers, and yet some people still do it without issue for whatever reason without considering the moral implications of their actions. Drawing the line at being a landlord, when you could easily just make your landlord a benevolent landlord, is ridiculous no matter how you slice it.

If sims are no longer alive, they don't have to deal with crappy landlords lol

Evil vs Scummy

What's scummy about making a living renting apartments?

slaves???

@@zippers987 they're called "clubs" in the game ;)

@@zippers987 Even before clubs, people would lock sims in their basement and make them paint, craft etc for money. Like it's just so bizzare that people are ok with enslaving sims for profit but draw the line at Land Lords smh

@DulceReposa oh okay I think what's happening for people being like eww landlords is that most people, statistically, who play the sims have no experience with slavery, theft, Child protective services etc etc... this is where the "it's just a game" mentality comes in. on the other hand most people have rented or have had experience with a bad landlord. but also Gen Z is like pseudo leftist yknow

@@DulceReposa It's simple. It's because landlords are more commonly the villain/antagonist in people's real lives. It's similar to why Umbridge is more hated than Voldemort. Vastly more people have delt with total assholes than dark wizards.

Her 100 baby challenge basement is in a class of its own….

The funny part about this is that I don't know of a single simmer that isn't in the habit of evicting sims. I mean, what happens when you want to play in a house or on a lot that is already occupied? You evict them. Easily, without second thought, without any notice. Just "yeah I want that, go live on the street with your family" and that's that. We have had that in the game since the beginning. The only difference is that we did it as the "god" of our sims universe that just makes things happen. Now we will be able to do it as the sim, which I guess (hope) will have some negative consequences.

Even the best landlord demands money for letting you use their unused property to live in. Basically legal robbery

I have childhood memories of my dad, a landlord, rushing out of the house in the middle of the night during a snowstorm or hailstorm to go make sure that his tenants were okay when they called him. I’ve rented a couple times myself. There are quite a few times when buying a house or a condo just doesn’t make sense or work for your current lifestyle. My parents rented the house we lived in when I first started school because they wanted to be sure about the neighborhood and school district. Then they kept renting the same house for over a decade because they liked the house and our landlord.

​@@Acide950 The trailer showed that you can set the rent to zero so if that's true that would make it possible to be a "good" *sims* landlord, you'd basically be more of a land steward

@@Acide950 how is that legal robbery lmao. robbery is taking away something that is yours. that property is theirs, not yoursd, what they do with it is their right - living there, renting it or having it sit empty. you are paying for using someone's property

@@MakeyJu They’re probably one of those people that thinks that all housing should be free. Like no, unfortunately it doesn’t work like that.

Same ! I don't understand the hate of landlords ? Maybe they had bad experiences, but my landlord Is pretty kind. I think it's not fair to hate on all landlords 🤔

Yeah. Like it’s a life simulation game… god forbid we simulate life. 😂🤭

@@luckyduchesse8924all landlords suck and housing is a human right , good cops exist its the whole system that makes em scummy

Realistic Evil of a Landlord compared to silly evil of a Restaurant Selling deadly sushi. It’s kinda that vibe

​@@Life_Universe_EverythingThis idea that landlord = evil is so absurd. 😂

​@@Life_Universe_Everything The only difference is mental gymnastics. I dont mean that in a rude way. I saw a video once that centered around logical fallacies we have about money. One was that when we get unexpected income, for example a $25 Birthday gift, most people are likely to use that money to buy themselves a treat instead of saving it. Theres a logical fallacy to justify the indulgence. This is what it feels like to me. Killing sims isnt just silly fun. Killing is something that happens in real life. Just like evictions and repossessions. There's no difference in severity. It's a logical fallacy.

@@egobrain7349 you also probably think capitalism is a fair and just system too, don't you?

@@krustykringle Yes. It is a system that affords the most freedom.

Same! I didnt even know people were bothered by it.

@@danitho IKR. I'm so excited for all the gameplay options. TS4 is already such a SAFE game as it is. The Sims has always been about all the things that can go wrong. I mean TS2 is literally one of the most unforgiving games out there. And most simmers are totally fine with murder, cheating, divorce, starving sims, neglecting children, drowning them, poison etc. but oh no. eviction. um??? i don't? huh? it's pixels?

simmers are always complaining about how they want the game to be more challenging and realistic and as soon as we get exactly that they're offended. 💀

@@mxltinfinityx all the virtue signaling about it is so annoying, I literally hate it here.

@@LiterallyJustAnActualPotato same, it's what I said too. Constant virtue signaling and pearl clutching. It's not that deep. She just wants to please her audience and it comes off as being fake. This is why TS4 is so watered down because privileged babies can't handle ANYTHING negative in their game. It's annoying.

Can you imagine if people refused to buy the pack and even try to cancle it because they dont like the fact that now landlord exsist in the sims😂 i dont think its likely, kayla is so far the only person i have seen that took any issue with the landlord machnics from a moral perspective, we all know she is going to abuss the heck out of her tennets as stanly and she is going to have fun doing it, she already did a makeshift landlord rags to riches using the roomates mechanics

​@@fruity4820Especially since landlords have been in the Sims as long as there have been apartments.

And even then saying not being paid by your tenant then demanding money is "morally questionable" is hilariously stupid honestly.. what part is morally questionable? The landlord wanting their money or the tenant not paying? They even show in the trailer that you could just give them a second chance and like help them fix things up and get back on their feet if you want. It's like ALL Kayla sees is the dark side of it all and honestly it's getting annoying that every single time it talks about the landlords she has to mention it being "morally questionable".. the landlord is likely paying utilities, definitely paying taxes, possibly even paying for the property itself still, and you're going to be like "HOW DARE THEY WANT MONEY!!"?

There's a difference between things that are comically tragic and actually tragic. People don't get eaten by piranhas or have anvils fall on their heads everyday, so when it happens in the sims its kinda funny. Getting evicted, not being able to pay rent, and having things repossessed due to debt are very real life tragedies that happen to people all the time. Add in that we're living in a time with runaway rent inflation and unprecedented wealth inequality and yeah I get that it rubs some people the wrong way. I like the pack, but it feels bad bro. Especially as someone who has genuinely traumatic childhood memories of getting evicted because my mom couldn't make rent. Reality isn't a cute gameplay feature... It's being 10 years old and seeing your favorite dollhouse you dreamed of giving to your own kids one day lying outside in the rain with all your other stuff in garbage bags. Too close to home for some people.

@@Nihilist_Porcupine So we're comparing experiences now? What about people that had a fire tragedy? or drowning tragedy? electrocution? Starving to death? This is like saying I don't like when simmers starve their sims to death because we have actual starving people in the world. or purposefully drowning sims when people actually die from drowning. My friends dad was lost at sea and they eventually found his body that had drowned but she doesn't use that as an excuse to not drown sims. Life sucks. Getting evicted sucks. I know, I was close to that. But comparing a real life game mechanic to actual life shouldn't hinder your game experience. You have the control of being a better land lord (or a horrible one if you're one of those people). There are SO many things that can trigger a person in this game alone but apparently "land lord" is the one that trumps everything. I agree the inflation and cost of living is getting horrendous but there are genuine land lords out there trying to help as well. People literally make SLAVES on this game for profit but no, landlord crosses the line smh

@@DulceReposa Right? I literally just read earlier that someone has a basement full of sims and they’re worried about their sims escaping when they leave the property since they aren’t a part of the household. There’s people being held hostage all over the world right now, as sex slaves, or for other purposes. Being a landlord being a bridge too far is honestly hilariously hypocritical.

​@@Nihilist_PorcupineSo be the landlord you wish you had as a child. I'm sorry you went through that, but there's a lot of experiences in the Sims that people go through irl, like my single mom Sim (waaaay back in Sims 1) who choked to death on food and left her kid an orphan (and kids couldn't grow up in Sims 1). It was an accident of the kind that happens every day.

I dunno man. There are reasons why people want to play it and reasons why people don't want to play it. "Cartoon violence" like killing people in a piranha pool or killing and then resurrecting someone does hit as close to home as being evicted from a place because you don't earn enough. Then again, some people want to play those experiences-everyone has their reasons, and it's easy to understand them from a gameplay and society standpoint

My fiancé’s grandparents and his uncle live in a duplex that they bought, so I’m probably gonna be doing a LOT of that

Based

I imagine the thermostat and sprinkler system will continue to be one per lot items as it appeared in the first trailer that the boiler and electric box are one per lot items too, just put all 4 in a shared basement

One was me 😂

hallo

@@Biscuitee 🤣🤣

I'd like to know how it's possible to furnish an apartment for an unknown family which could have any mix of the life stages, how do you know what beds / toddler beds / cribs are needed

this pack just keeps getting better and better

Right?? I can’t keep spending all my money on this stuff

If you can't afford to buy it anyway just pirate it. I have every pack pirated, I think I only paid for one before I realised I could do that

@@AngieBeer1 wait how??

@@taliak8760 Suidana spelt backwards, they have a twitter account

I just know i would have played it for 1 hour, get bored, and move on with my life. I would literly rather buy 40 indy games i might never even touch than pay a single dollar to EA, even on sales sims expantion packs are never going to be worth it for me

this but instead of adding them to both games or replacing the items, they are added to the game as an item with a single swatch, and then once the teaser game is released and you buy it then you get all the swatches for it.

Unless I’m remembering incorrectly, there are no base game mini fridges. Both Discover University and Spa Day have mini fridges.

@@stephanieworkman5110 yeah but im confused cause kayla mentioned a mini fridge in the base game but I never saw one?

@@lov1na716 I think she misremembered that the mini fridges are from packs, not base game. We do have base game lunch boxes we can take snacks from, but they don’t work like mini or fridges in general otherwise.

That’s such a sweet idea! I might do that aswell 👀