To work around this issue, you could make one of the inactive sims take an unpaid vacation so your sim doesn't have to take care of their toddler. Your sim may need to call a babysitter when trying to leave the house because their neighbours have gone to work and left a toddler home alone.

The suggested workaround for this is to place the University Life Manse Mini Fridge in all inactive apartments. Each family will have access to the same content from their own fridge. If you have a standard fridge in all apartments, the contents of such are identical.Relocating the hampers for both families so the active sims' hamper is always the closest one to them, may help to alleviate this problem. When doing laundry, active sims may want to put their laundry in their neighbours hamper.Here are a few examples that have been noticed:. As you are still actually handling one household, there are a lot of quirks you will need to learn to live with.It is suggested not to exceed four apartments per lot. If you are using a mod that allows you to have more than eight sims on a lot you could, theoretically, have an apartment complex of thirty sims but because all the other households are visible and their residents are going on with their daily life, for computer performance, it might be best to keep the apartment limit to low. There is no limit to how many apartments you can have.So if you have any mods that affect how roommates operate, it will affect those sims too. This mod will turn the sims in the families you are not currently playing, into roommates.If a roommate dies, they will be removed from the list of apartment family residents.

See this FAQ below for more details: What happens if the inactive apartment family has a baby?

When a baby is born, they will normally be added to the list of active sims but until you assign them to a family, they will not belong to any apartment family and will always be active.

For cats, the KittyWay Animated Cat Door is a viable option but there is no known alternative for dogs, unfortunately. If you lock the door for some sims, pets can't use it. It's not currently recommended to have pets in apartments because the EA doors won't allow you to give them a key. If you don't want to feed them when they are not in the active apartment family, you can buy them the aspiration reward 'Bottomless Pet Bowl' so you don't need to take care of their feeding.

Pets can be roommates too but you need still to take care of them.

You can use Buzzler's Aging Manager Mod to do this. If you are using a mod to have TS2 style aging, you will need to manually turn off aging for the residents of the apartment you are not currently playing.

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