Condominium

Condominiums are the only room where sims permanently live. It is also the only room that is bought for a fixed price and does not earn rent. Condominiums sell for almost 2 times their cost by default, but they can earn a maximum of 2.5 times. However, if living conditions are poor or a sim's stress is too high, they will move out and the player will be forced to buy them back at the full sell price, regardless of the amount of cash the player owns. This makes condominiums the most immediately profitable room in the game, but potentially the fastest way to fall into negative cash. If a player isn't careful with their finances and transport, a mass sell off of condominiums could cause the player to be too bankrupt to continue playing. Each condominium increases the tower's population by 3.

Tips

 * You can change the price of condominiums by selecting them with the Query tool.
 * Public spaces are noisy and lower the evaluation of condominiums. Avoid placing them immediately above or below these spaces.
 * Offices generate less noise than any other public space, making them the preferred space to start a block of condominiums above. For example, if you build public spaces on level 2, 3, and 4, and want to put condominiums on levels 5 - 10, build offices on level 4.
 * Condominiums cannot be purchased between 9 pm and 7 am. Build them after 9 pm to have time to change their price before they are bought in the morning.
 * Alternatively, condominiums built on a floor that is not connected to transport will not be bought. You can build several levels of condominiums and set their price to maximum as you earn rent and income from public spaces. Then, if you need more money or go into the negative, connect the block of condominiums to transport and cash in on the investment.
 * If a condominium gains the "Conditions are terrible" status, they will not be purchased. Use the bulldozer to delete them, then build them again to lose the condition. Likewise, you can use the Query tool to set the condominium's price to the minimum, and the condition will be removed. Then set the price back to the maximum to sell it.
 * There is a potentially devastating glitch involving unsold condominiums. If a bomb threat is phoned into the tower, phantom sims can move into unsold condominiums after the bomb explodes or is found. If this happens, the sims will stay overnight, the condominiums will gain the "Conditions are terrible" status, and then the player will be forced to buy back the unsold properties at full value.CondoGlitch.PNG