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I just moved a Uni student back home with her new husband, and now the house seems to be possessed. If anyone uses the computer, dishwasher, piano, or any sink just once, it breaks. I tried buying replacements of all these things, but they keep breaking. Any ideas what could be causing this, or how it could be fixed? I previously had to delete the husband, save, and return to him in front of the mailbox because no one could interact with him, I think he's cursed  ::).

I have no helpful advice.....just the "Amityville Horror" suddenly sprang to mind. If you hear the words "GET OUT", I would move your sims immediately, lol.

Was it a maxis-made house?  Most of the original game houses became kinda bugged when NL was added, and the advice I've always seen (and followed) is to open the house in build mode first, make some minor change, and then save it so it updates. If this is the case, then yea, move your sims out and into a different house, or even back to this one after you do the build-mode change to it.

Sounds like the house has something odd going on - did you build it yourself or get it from the Maxis stock, or is it a downloaded house?

I'd suggest you move your family out, enter the lot to refurnish it, save, exit, then try moving them in again.  I t may just be that the lot needs to be reset.  (And to begin with, only use Maxis originals, not even recolours.  I put a recoloured cheap fridge into a house I was building, moved a family in, and the only thing they could get from the fridge was a bottle for the toddler, after which I got the message that it was empty.  I tried replaceing it with a similar fridge - the value hadn't gone down - but the same thing happened.  So, I replaced with a Maxis original, and it was fine.)

Great minds think alike, and at the same time too, joe.

It sounds like you've actually spawned a break inducer using boolprop...  The good news is that you can spawn a break suppressor the same way which does help a bit.

Although, I would suggest the moving out and moving back in.

This is probably what I did, in messing around trying to fix the husband.

It's a house made by me, so this is actually my fault, not Maxis'.

Doesn't explain why the husband needed fixing, though.

True. Maybe it's because he had an "accident" at his wedding and kept perpetually trying to cry when he was supposed to be making babies. Or because he was a downtownie, or because he was old, or just because this Legacy house had not yet had any bugs and it was time to start driving me nuts.

Maybe he was hinting it was time for a little dose of the old elixir?

Maybe. Too bad for him he doesn't get any.

Edited to add: I carpeted the room I guessed I accidentally spawned the break inducer in with the stuck object remover, and it was burninated. Everything is working fine now.  :)

Nice to know that's a way to get rid of the break inducer - I will note that for next time.