What determines the kind of neighbors in an apartment building? I have a very high-end building that I am putting the finishing touches on but I am worried that (no offense to any gear-heads or townies) a "lower" class of people will move into the building.

Also, and perhaps this is answered in another thread, but is it possible to change the clothes of townie sims in the game (influence or a mod of some sort?)

The main thing for attracting high class types (socialites and techies) is to make sure that the lots near your high-end building are mostly high class lots as well. If you have a bunch of low value lots around your nice building, you might find your building attracting bohemians and gearheads.

Every time I make a ritzy apartment building, it fills up with all elders What's up with that? Are they the only ones that can afford the 5k a week rent? My yuppie sim has no one her age to flirt with!

Blacksquirrel, I think so. In my "elitist" apartment complex it's mostly elders with one or two (two I think) professional elitists who are middle aged.

I hope with the patch that comes out they allow more than one neighbor per apartment, I would love to see non-playable kids on the lots.

Isn't that what the different types of alleys are for? I thought I read that somewhere...
Well, it seems to work for me anyway.

What i've been doing is just making random families and plopping then down in random apartments.. That way at least there will be kids and stuff, you know?

Maybe I'm wrong, but shouldn't the lot classfication attract a certain type of sims?
In this case maybe using the cheat code: changeLotClassification [low | middle | high] would ensure that the kind of people you want would be attracted

According to the Prima Guide:

Gearheads - Low
Bohemians - Low/Middle
Jocks - Middle
Techies - Middle/High
Socialites - High

Just change the lot classification to high using the cheat that Frillen supplied, and you should be fine.

What is the correct way to enter the cheat? I built an apartment, change the zoning to apartments and checked the lot class. It was set at High and I wanted medium so I typed in changeLotClassification middle, but it didn't change the lot. So I cleared it using clearLotClassValue which reset the lot to Low. Then I tried the cheat again to set the lot to middle class, but it won't change from Low class now.

What am I doing wrong?

I think it's a glitch because it does that for me. I think the important part is the class number. When you do printlotclass and it says Low 25000 then it's low. If it says Middle 25000 I think the game will still play it as a low class lot because of the number.

That's why I kill them off. Jessica Peterson being a Fortune Sim is very greedy when it comes to money, so she becomes best friends with every elder she meets, asks them to move in and add their monies to her banking account and right after that the elder dies of old age with the help of L and D tombstone. Jessica made 200K by now and BellaDonna Cove got rid of few elders :D

Hey folks,

I've done a lot experimenting about this because I actually wanted a lower class block but my apartments always end up with high classed socialites instead. They sort of look out of place in a slum.

This has worked for me but i think it only works in a brand new building. One that hasn't been lived in before by any Sim, that is.

in the cheat window type
printlotclass

This will pop up the lot class value and it should tell you low, medium, high.

If it's the undesired class then you can change it as you build it but I think it works best when you move your first Sim family in.

So move your Sim family in, don't rent anything yet. Bring up the lot class window again for your reference.

Clear the lot class:
clearLotClassValue

It removes the numbers and sets your lot to low.

type the classification cheat
changeLotClassification low/middle/high (whichever class you want).

now rent your apartment.

The townies that start moving in should be the appropriate townies. I found that the building just resets to its "proper" class value, however the first townies to move in there will stay, so even if it resets to a low class value, you'll still have the original high class residents moving in when you move new playable Sims in. Also, townies that move into an apartment that is vacated by a playable Sim family will also reflect the original lot class.

That's how things went down in my game though and I really have no idea still how this cheat works.