Uncle Steve

The first person to welcome you in “The Tenants” is your Uncle Steve.

He will guide you through the first few steps along the way of becoming a landlord (aka: the tutorial) and will afterwards be available to be your trustworthy Repairman, Handyman, Exterminator and Cleaner if you don’t want to rely on a Professional. He will help you clean the mess of your Tenants, fix broken Equipment, or remove pests from the apartments within a few easy steps. (see “Tenant Requests”)

He can also be your “partner in crime” and sneak out some unique equipment while fixing up an apartment for a job. Simply tell him to put an unique item into your player storage after restoring it, instead of scrapping it and et voilà you can call a new item your own. (see “Player Storage”)

Mind you, he can be a bit slow at first, but with some patience you can help him gather some strength and endurance and get better in this job. Just assign some skill points in the “uncle steve” tree and you both are good to go. (see “Skill Tree: Uncle”)

Ordering him around
Uncle Steve is a man of many talents, but he’s a bit “lacking” in enthusiasm. He will do a lot of things for you, but you have to give him direct instructions and tell him what to do, or he won’t move at all.

If it is a case of urgent matter, like broken equipment, Uncle Steve will go to the place and fix it on his own, if you tell the Tenant that you’ll send your uncle instead of a pro. When he gets there you point at the broken equipment and he (hopefully) fixes it.

When there’s been an earthquake and you need to repair the walls, or when you have to clean up the mess of your tenants, as well as during jobs you have to be more precise and send Uncle Steve from one spot to the next until everything is done.

How good he is at these things, depends on your skill in the skill tree. (see “Skill Tree: Uncle”)

With pests like rats or cockroaches you will need to go from room to room and set traps or use bug spray until the infestation is gone. No skill can increase your Uncle's chances to fight them off.

After you are done ordering him around, click on the exit and send your Uncle home.