The Sims 4 is the game that never stops growing, with hundreds of expansions available from the PS Store right now. Its latest add-on may be its darkest yet, however, as it’ll allow you to test out your landlord skills. That’s right, you’ll be able to give property ownership a try, as you build your own residential block and let it out to tenants.
The add-on will bring a new “scenic world nestled in a lush tropical landscape and vibrant city skyline”, and there’ll even be a nearby Night Market for you to explore. Meanwhile, you’ll be able to keep tabs on your tenants as they head downstairs to collect their mail and mill about the local neighbourhood. The developer promises that the release is going to have a strong community feel.
You’ll also be working as a landlord, so that means you’ll be responsible for “fixing utilities, dealing with unruly neighbours, and creating a community”. Presumably you’ll also have the option to inflict financial ruin on your tenants, and unfairly raise the price of the rent whenever you feel like it. The expansion’s due out on 7th December, ahead of Christmas.
One thing worth noting is that if you purchase the content prior to 18th January, you’ll unlock the Street Eats pack for free. This effectively enables you to setup a Night Market-like stall in your own back or front yard, with the addition of a grill cart, street umbrella, and fruit basket. So, how much will you be charging for the rent?
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It would be great if you could buy up entire communities worth of property and acted as a slumlord. We could call it the BlackRock expansion pack.
Oh dear god, next they’ll have a real estate agent simulation just so they cover the bases for awful people.
@VideoGameBoy Anything's possible in The Sims.
Oh my. We've have rent in real life, now in game too?
Anyway, great that they still support it
If my Sims want to be landlords then they’re taking a nice swim where the ladder disappears.
Finally bringing back burglary in this expansion. I will buy this just for that feature.
incredibly based PushSquare post
Is it controversial to say I don’t get the hatred of landlords?
People gotta make their money somehow.
@HeeHo Mostly because the buy to letting industry has pushed house prices so high I think.
Edit : sure if you already owned a home, it's been great I guess, but I can certainly understand why younger generations especially are so annoyed.
Sims is the only way I can afford a house so… bring it on!
That being said I feel like this could have been in City Living.
@HeeHo because they are a necessary evil. Decades ago the goal was rent being about a third or a fourth of what you earned (for some it was even that much off their take home pay which is amazing) which meant if you were fiscally responsible you could still save and live decently. Now for many it is half or more even if they live in poor quality housing/areas.
But between corporations lowering housing inventory by making them expensive rentals, house sellers holding out for high over payments because housing is overvalued right now due to constrained inventory (among other things), much of the housing inventory being in poor shape for what you are paying (why take care of a building when you will get tenants no matter what), interest rates being high, homelessness being a crime in many places which forces people into making often dangerous decisions, builders are either building rentals mostly (because that’s where the money is) or just making building new inventory insanely expensive it is harder than ever to live somewhere let alone buy a place. Most zoning laws and high build price also keeps house supply low. The nice/fair landlords have to spike prices to stay in business due to high property taxes so even if they mean well they are adding to the problem. Since inflation is having a party and wages are stagnant, people can’t keep up. But you gotta live somewhere so you have no choice but to take it. So you slowly drown.
Many of the first time buyer programs aren’t enough because you get out bid by people with cash (not mad at the people that have money, but corporate investors can go to outer space with no suit) or the only thing you can afford is in an unsafe area. Most can’t move and afford to keep their jobs and those that do drive up home prices as they bring their cash to the area (not mad at them) and sellers smell the money and raise their prices. I do find that funny though because that was a quip people used to say: “move somewhere cheaper then”, knowing that many couldn’t and keep their jobs. But remote work tested that and many people with high paying jobs that lived in high cost of living areas moved to low cost of living areas and could live like royalty.
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