Apartment Life – Beaumont Estate
The Beaumont Estate contains the following Family’s
- Persia Bendett – Barracks
- Deonte Gawen – Barracks
- Stephan/Helena Gothier
- Lysander/Ebony Lillard
- Lar’s/Kaitlyn Karogar
- Wolf/Raeanne Karogar
- Vui Hiatt
- Forrest/Taye Londen
- Father Mathew/Neve Goodwill
The first thing is of course to decide which of these family’s are “suitable” for apartment life, looking at it i decide that the obvious choice is the barracks it’s self, and i set about splitting that up.
Once I’d finished the conversion the barracks was made up of 5 apartments, one “staff apartment” for the short term living of persia, which is a fully self contained building, with bathroom/kitchen etc which tbh was where i planned to have her live anyway, One is the captain’s quarters which is again a fully self contained building which i move townie “joe carr” into, simply because trying to “get a male townie” to move in to it naturally was becoming a pain .
Leaving the last 3 as solder’s barracks, these will mostly just contain a bed, leaving the rest of the “facility’s” of the barracks to be shared, these facility’ include a large comman room, with various skill building items, kitchen and of course bathroom, Deonte moves into the smallest apartment, having only enough room for two bed, and i move a number of male townies into the largest one to “be the solders” and i then had to solve the problem of the last apartment, because i already had 4 playable occupied apartments (even though i never plan on playing two of these households) i still had one apartment that kept being occupied by a female tenant, however im my usual ruthless manner i solved this by repeatedly killing her till a male moved in haha.
The only other two family’s on the Beaumont estate suitable for apartment life are the Hiatts and gothier’s. As sadly this was one of the last estate’s i re-vamped and im pretty much happy with where everyone else is living.
I did debate spliting the Karogar hunting lodge into 2 separate apartments to allow the two family’s some space, but eventually i decided if i wanted to do that i would just have Wolf get his own cabin.
The next step was to decide which house or set of houses i was going to convert into apartments for Vui and Helena, or indeed was i just going to create a new house from scratch. Looking around the Beaumont estate i did build some of the “double” houses so the conversion was simple and i moved Helena and Vui in, making them neighbors granted this means Vui’s plan’s of becoming a “farmer” are now on hold, but im hoping i can possibly get Helena or Stephan to “mind the children” which will allow her to go back to work as a midwife, i may if im feeling kind use “insiminator” to give Vui her old job back, after all it’s not the poor simmie’s fault i bought a new expansion which solved some of their problems… haha.
Ok next step rent / tax’s
The barracks is exempt from paying tax’s so that’s simple enough, and as the only family’s that have moved are both “peasant” family’s” they will both be paying the same.
The rent for their new apartment is $2,322 per week, and I’ve set their tax’s (baring in mind the Beaumont estate has the highest tax’s) to 60% which works out about $700 per day, not that much different from what they where on previously.
