T04: Renovate a property

Renovating the place
Now that the place is cleaned up, it’s finally time to renovate it. As with the cleaning before, just click on the property you want to renovate and select the action button “Begin renovation” from the dialog that pops up.

As soon as you enter the Property you’ll get a 2-step tutorial of “how to renovate a property”. Read carefully before you continue.

Additional to the tutorial there are some things worth to mention:

Navigating the Checklist
On the right side you can see a checklist. This one tells you what the Requirements are for the apartement in order to be able to present it to the Client. The Requirements are listed per room type (see “Room Types”). In this case we only have one “common” room and as you can see the Fridge, the Heater and the Fuse are already checked as present.

The great thing about the checklist though, is that you can simply click on the item name, or floor, or wall and it will immediately filter the item categories at the bottom with only the eligible things that fit the description.

Floors and Walls
Click on “Finish Floors” and the “Floors” Section under “Design” will be filtered by the search word “Carpet”, as indicated on the search box in the top right corner of the renovation catalog at the bottom of the screen.

Currently there are 4 Floors available in the filtered Carpet Category. Select one of your choosing, then move over to the Trailer and hover over the floor. A green outline will indicate that the selected object is placeable. In case of floors and walls you will always see a green outline because there is no way to not be able to change them.

Sidenote: If you hold LEFT SHIFT and click on the floor you will paint all tiles in the room.

The same goes for the walls, which is your next task on the list: Notice how the item is striked through and marked with a green dot, as soon as you fulfilled the requirement.
 * Click on “Finish walls”,
 * select a wall from the filtered categories,
 * hold LEFT SHIFT and click on a wall to paint all walls in the room.

You can of course use different wallpaper and floorings in the same room as long as they fit the requirement, but some Clients tend to be really picky about it and will give you a negative rating for it. (see “Improve the Rating” in Jobs: Renovation).

You can also choose to not paint the walls and flooring to a 100% and it will still count, as long as you are above 75%, but as soon as you are below that mark, you cannot fulfill the renovation job. And again: some Clients don’t like that.

Furnishing
After you are done with the walls and floor (after the tutorial you don’t need to do it in that order), you can start furnishing.

It basically works the same like the walls and floor: When you see a green outline of the item you can place it. A red outline indicates that the item is not placeable, usually because it is intersecting another object (indicated by a yellow outline).
 * Click on the item in the checklist
 * select an item from the filtered categories
 * Place the item in the room

Some furniture have a furniture entrance indicated by a pair of feet in front of them. They are only accessible when the feet are green. As soon as they are red, you can still place the Item, but the Tenant won’t be able to use it.

Placement is key
You will notice that sometimes you have placed an item on the property but for some reason it is not checked on the list. This reason is usually because you placed another item in front of the furniture entrance, which is now blocking it’s path and therefore it does not count as ‘in the room’. These Items are highlighted with an exclamation mark in a red circle.

The Catalogue
At the bottom of the renovation screen you can access the catalogue of available Items by clicking on the “Design” Tab on the left. It contains all kinds of floors, walls, furniture and even doors (which are only interesting when you actually have a door that you could replace, the entrance door is not replaceable).

The Furniture is divided into different categories (these are not necessarily connected to the room type).

In those categories you’ll find all kinds of items. Some of these items have a green dot, some others have a bright blue border, when you hover over them, you can see what this is all about:

Finishing touches
As soon as all rooms on the “required” checklist are marked green, you are done with the essentials and if you want to, you can deliver the job by clicking on the “Finalize” Tab and “Deliver job”. But before you do that, have a closer look at what you’ve built and click on the room name. A window will pop up that tells you some interesting details about the room. The most interesting thing being the Prestige, which currently is not that good. It also tells you how you can improve the room's decor score (and by that also some of the prestige).

How this works exactly will be explained later on and in the Guide under “Prestige & Room Score”. For this tutorial it’s not needed. Just keep in mind that it exists. Or, if you want to, play around with it now, you’ve got some budget left after all. Uncle Steve can wait a while longer.