I made an apartment building under $20,000 to use For Rent! 

Glad to see James already getting into the slumlord mindset by constantly looking for the cheapest options

It’d be fun for Laird to dumpster dive for some furniture for the tenants apartments

Should be a communal laundry room in the basement too! And using all the stained floors from Strangerville.

I'm excited to see everything the community makes for for for for For Rent.

Back story idea- this apartment block was purchased by a developer a few years back and they renovated the first two buildings but went broke before the last one could be done. Ultimately they went bankrupt and due to the hazardous condition of the remaining building they couldn’t sell it so the whole space was foreclosed on. Now it’s just sitting there, wasting away and because no one has been willing to buy it from the bank and put the work in! I’m excited for this LP, it was definitely made for your playing style! Fingers crossed it functions well and isn’t riddled with bugs 🤞🏼

You creating the upstairs and making it feel like they are renovating. It is literally the reason why I watch you for the grunge and the creativity. Literally love all of your content

I'm so looking forward to this. I remember in sims 2 making my own apartments. You can do so much with it. Can't wait to build normal ones likea boarding house or trailer park. But I really want to make tiny apartments and a converted storage unit complex. Trying to come up with some out of the box ideas.

This will be the first pack I’ve bought in a while. I think it will give me a new fresh outlook on the game

My first apartment weirdly looked just like this one. There was even a full size window right in the shower that had a privacy frost on it, and then 6 months later they replaced all the building windows and removed the frost and we were told we could add no decals or anything to the new windows. So I would only shower at night and I would put a sheet over the window and it would get soaking wet... and I was on the first floor next to a busy sidewalk............... very fun. I'm excited to watch this lets play 😄

the recreation area reminds me so much of the abandoned trash lot they turned into a baseball field on hey Arnold and I am here for it

I love seeing James getting so excited about this pack! I’m so excited for this next let’s play. Some suggestions: bringing back the “using furniture we find in the dumpster to furnish” challenge because I feel it seems realistic, maybe using the home chef hustle selling table to make cash early on?? AND doing what we did in dream home decorator and “buying” the building next door to this build and renovating that too.

it would be cool to add a decommissioned “pool” by doing an open ceiling basement with cracks everywhere and weeds growing in it!! adding a little fountain spout in the cracks like it was leaking would be a fun touch too

The two doors immediately next to each other is very accurate to the crappy apartment I lived in for a few years lol. This actually looks super similar to mine with the hall way in the middle and units on either side. Later on I think putting laundry machines in the dirty downstairs area with the water heater would be good bc I definitely didn’t have in-unit laundry.

The basement also can be a laundry room apartment buildings have that in some places in the city

Something I really struggle with in building apartments is making the shapes of the individual units look different. In my building the biggest unit is a 3 bedroom unit for a family with kids, and the smallest unit (mine lol) is a micro-studio. I'd love to see somebody build something like that in game, where the units are suuuuper different .

im so excited for more city like worlds! myself and most of the people playing can't relate to american suburbia or rural living. i haven't been this excited for a pack or willing to buy early since paranormal stuff

I want to do a lot like this for each base game world. I already am mostly done with the willow creek build. It’s two shotgun houses together one modern and one traditional.

I wonder if you'll be able to make separate buildings work as apartments, like building a trailer park and renting out each trailer. Or a lot filled with tiny homes and make some sort of commune. I have so many ideas for gameplay!

I wish they would release building cheat-sheets with the pack announcements. Just a list of things you will need (like that boiler or the mailbox) and how big they are, so one can start planning and building.

At first I wasnt super into this upcoming pack because I figured it was another career I would never choose, but I realized I can keep my sims family in the same lot without controlling them now! Edit: misspelled a word

The way it's still nicer than my first student apartment 😂 I can't wait for the new let's play! You could also turn them into studios instead of 1 bedroom, just to mix it up a bit.

I am probably going to wait until this pack goes on sale (though I feel like the last three packs haven't gone to the standard expansion sale price yet lol) but I am kind of excited to turn every single family lot into a multi family lot just like where I live lol.

One great thing about this pack is more sims can be added to each world. Instead of them floating in the void lol. Also if the devs updated Get To Work, so you could actually have multiple businesses on one lot using this same concept

The bartered upstairs reminds me of Dr Gluon’s house flipper series!

I love how lived in all your builds are, so realistic. Your lets plays are my favourite.

With the bright lights you can select a few in live mode and shift click to set them to flicker (from paranormal stuff pack iirc) for the vibes

I'd like to build something like a bathhouse that can double as the community space, and the apartments would just have sleeping, dining, toilet. I hope the pack lets me do that.

I'd put an empty basement where I plan to put a pool, and decorate as such. Also, should totally get a dumpster for the lot. Most apartments have them for their tenants anyway, but what if your Landlord used it to eek out some extra cash?

When James was placing the trash in the communal area I realised it would be so cool to have an empty pool (basement) with trash just piled up in it.

Pretty impressed by the creativity with this lot and can tell how much fun you had as well building it! Looking forward to your LP.

don't forget if you end up having the pre-build (early access) to show how you merge your game back into the bigwallet save

That little add on in the second story would be great for shared laundry…

For dingy builds like this you can use the debug double bed that you can find in the dumpsters. It is so cheap!

Maybe you could take out the living room furniture (since it's less necessary), and then try to finish furnishing the initial apartments mainly with flea market/dumpster dived/woodworking table-made stuff for an added challenge. I think years of watching this channel has made me far more masochistic in my play style, lol.

Deli: I’m going to make a beautiful functional apartment building James: SLUMLORDDDDD

Lilsimsie: I’m morally opposed to landlords. James: I’m going to be a slumlord!

I really enjoy the glee James exudes while building gross, junky places. Also can't wait to see what Dr Gluon does with the new pack 😆

I'd watch three hours of more builds in this style tbh, I love abandoned rundown and/or under construction builds :) /gen

A micro-house community!

Angling the two decorative buildings like that to fill up the lot give more to me the look that you're sharing your residential space with a middle school.

14:17 "Oh that is good dinge" has now entered my vocabulary forever, thanks James

I wish they made this pack more realistic meaning the sim cant afford to rent anything

Wood ceilings in the bathrooms is an interesting choice.

I feel like the effort James is putting into really trying to maximize profits by squeezing as much as possible into a space while using the least money possible is very realistic.

I did something similar with growing together debug building. But I build on top of it and pretend my sims live in the roof top of the building.

"ah, that is good dinge" I appreciate you, James.

Please make a trailer park. That would be a great rental for Strangerville. You could use the aeroplane lot as it's quite big and is near the other trailer park.

Very excited to see your let’s play on this. Earning money by torturing sims is where James turner formerly known as the sims supply thrives!

Laird should use a mix of dumpster diving and woodworking/fabrication to furnish the apartments!

I see it now! James’s bucket list of being a slumlord. 🤪

I loooooove these dingy to-be-renovated half-done builds!! Can't wait for the new series, I dropped it when you started High School Years and Horse Ranch 🥲

When you're browsing RU-vid and jump as soon as you see James Turner's notification 😅

I look forward to making my old apartment complex. Only 2 units in my complex were renovated, the other 13 were grungy and in need of remodel. I was fortunate to have the first updated one.

If you move the kitchen to where you currently have the couch, you could turn the current kitchen into dining/hallway, then you could squeeze two bedrooms in the back there. It might be good for the second apartment

I can't wait for this expansion pack ! I thought growing together was good and changed a lot, but this one... I am so excited to be able to build apartments complexes and other stuff with several tenants. I was pretending to do it with the roommates feature, but... it was not working really well (to be fair it was not what it was ment for XD). I'm hyped for this pack, and for you LP around it !

one thing I miss was it from the sims3 was all the Furniture that more or less was classified as "found" or crappy DIY projects. like the bookshelf that was just a few bricks and lose wood planks, the table that was just a Steel wire reel that was "found" near the local construction site (buy mode). all of them was supper cheap and If I remember correctly also could be found out in the wild. and so on. Sims 4 really even whit stuff like stranger living dont have much in the style of dingy stuff.

Maybe you can do dumpster diving to furnish your early apartments? Then as you meet certain financial goals or aspirational goals you can use build mode objects?

Suggestion- I live in a city, and it’s not uncommon to see 2 or 3 story homes that have been converted into apartments. I suggest that Laird start her apartment empire by moving from Multi-Apartment homes TO Apartment Buiding and complexes

I really hope the pack will allow for some community space utilities, so you can have for example one large laundry room, or have other utilities/devices/items centralized in general.

I'm in the middle of a house buy and my anxiety is keeping me from eating and sleeping. You and Deli are keeping me going just by watching your videos.

It'd be so cool that once James has the money for it, to do basement apartments ! Also... am I the only one who wants to see him use dumpster furniture to start his 2nd apartment? Like his Sim fixes toilets or whatever and fixes them to be used by his tenants?

So excited for the new series! I’m really hoping they go back and make elevators functional for our builds as a base game update, would make a lot of sense for the new pack

I really hope he puts this on the gallery, it's great build to start on.

this pack definitely have good potential , i think we all needed something fresh in our games

i just did a rags to riches where a “homeless” sim moves into a trashed out warehouse in the city and slowly renovates it - but turning it into rentable units would be a really fun twist!

How cute would it be if when sims move into your property, they bring their own furniture that players place for them. But as landlord you need to make sure they have certain fixtures/fittings before they move in.

The pipes sticking out of the roof with the little cap on top are not chimneys. They're vents, and most likely plumbing vents. 😉😊

I just saw a video on Instagram from the Sims where they show up to 6 units you can build for rent 😍 this is gonna be amazing and chaotic.

Looking forward to seeing Rags to Rental playthrough! I still need to watch the others as I’ve gotten quite invested in the Bigwallet family

There's the dirty double from eco, it's super cheap and fits the vibe.

"The bare minimum for liveable" now you're thinking like the average landlord.

When you get to that point you could also add a laundry room and storage lockers to the basement too.

I feel like building a run down lot like this before the pack comes out will just result in you changing the whole thing before you play. There will be so many new and interesting items and probably a whole list of requirements needed that this building might not have. It looks fantastic but I feel like there will be a redo of this build when the pack comes out

It seems like we'll be able to have at least 6 households living on one lot which is pretty exciting!

Love your videos! Sooo excited for this new pack!!! Been waiting for a pack like this for awhile. I love how you did this apartment rundown!

I really liked this building, despite the "awful" looking, it tells so much story about it, there is so going on and a lot of room to build from that. I don't what to say about it, but I think its an interesting ideia the way it looks now and how we can go further than this during gameplay. I just loved it

this is making me so excited for the next rags to riches. many more evil chuckles ahead, i’m sure

I am beyond excited to see how dark James gets in this play for the Sims 4 For 4 For 4 For 4 For Rent!!!!😈

I was just apartment shopping and most one bedroom layouts had the door to the bathroom from the bedroom. I know not ideal for guests but makes sense if it’s just you or you and partner.

I like the build James does. They're so creative. I will definitely watch his LP when the For Rent pack comes out.

Wonderful build, James. I love it! I really do hope you will be starting out as a tenant first, before becoming a landlord. Finding a cheap place to rent and then trying to save up for a property while paying rent in a rubbish place would be perfect for a Rags to Riches. So excited.

4 Simoleons is the cheapest on flooring, because you can do the quarter-triangle-tiles with ctrl+F, so the total for a full tile needs to be a multiple of 4

I love the grungy builds! Very excited for the next LP

"the dinge factor" lol Love it!

I love this lot. It’s gonna be so much fun to see it go from rundown to new and spiffy! 💯💯💯

Can't wait for someone to rebuild the apartments we had on sims 2.

My favorite gameplay set-up! Thanks James ♥

I love this lot so much! I don’t ever download from other builders unless it’s a fixer-upper because I enjoy building but I can see myself downloading this lot for my own gameplay with For Rent!

Great for a Rags to Refurb series 😊 starting out with 0 simoleons may not even need a cheat 👍 can't wait ✌️

I really love builds like this... because I love the idea of flipping things... So this is just awesome. I can't wait to get the new pack, use this lot, and build that dang pool out back!!! Thank you James for such an awesome build and creative Idea

I've been so addicted to apartmemt building since the announcment ! Sims 2 apartment building was always my therapy. I am so excited to see this video!!

Very excited to see this build renovated!!

Build challenge: build the tallest apartment building called skyscraper apartments and make sure some sims live on the top floor 😅. Maybe use some dummy apartments on the bottom like Sims4 does in University and the city they already have.

Maybe Laird could move into the unfurnished apartment with just a sleeping bag to start renting out the furnished one right away.

I can’t wait to see the final result of this build, good work James!

this is making me so excited for this pack. i just moved into my first apartment this year,and now i can build my actual apartment and fill it with sims, which would be so much fun ahh

If you want to give them an entertainment item you can replace the bed with the Eco one from the dumpster which I believe is only $25. There's cheap book sets or perhaps the classic TV (also from Eco/dumpster) but I can't remember how much that costs. I'm looking forward to this expansion pack and the new LP.

I am so psyched for this lets play! Very cool dingy-build!!

The trailer showed the landlord and electrician in a basement in what looked like a utility room. Maybe thats required as well 😄

I feel like the original Lady Bigwallet would love this pack.