Family funds cheat suddenly doesn't work

[snapdragon]

I have BV installed and have recently used the Family Funds cheat successfully, but all of a sudden since yesterday it doesn't work. I tried it in the neighborhood view, and have tried to use it on different families. Each family name is unique, so it's not a question of there being more than one household with that name. Does anyone know what I can do to get the cheat to work again? i'm using motherlode now, but it would be a lot easier to just use family funds.

[kutto]

Are you typing "+"?

[snapdragon]

Are you typing "+"?

I've never had to type + before, although I did try that when the usual method didn't work. I thought the plus sign added money, the minus took it away, and just the amount without a symbol in front changed the amount the household has to whatever amount you enter. In other words, I don't think you have to have a plus sign to get the money.

[dizzy]

Cheats aren't something we can modify around here, so please think hard about what happened to your sims and their families and let us know if you come up with some idea.

[snapdragon]

Cheats aren't something we can modify around here, so please think hard about what happened to your sims and their families and let us know if you come up with some idea.

Okay, I will publicly humiiiate myself by admitting that while I thought there were no other households with the names I used, there actually were. They were living in Bluewater and I never play them, so had completely forgotten about them. Yes, I know I am an idiot. I only found out about them when I installed Sim PE, since I thought that was now my only way to increase the funds. I saw their names in the list of Sim Families. The other two households in Bluewater got the money that I tried to give the ones in Pleasantview.

[bowrain]

What bugging me about this familyfunds cheat is that you can't use it to a family with 2 words name. I believe one of the household in university have 2 words name and it wouldn't work on them

[Simsample]

You can, but you just need to put speech marks around the name: familyfunds "Landgraab IV" 20000 for example.

[bowrain]

Are you sure? I'm sure I've tried that, also the single quotation marks too, and neither worked...

[Zazazu]

Cheats aren't something we can modify around here, so please think hard about what happened to your sims and their families and let us know if you come up with some idea.

Okay, I will publicly humiiiate myself by admitting that while I thought there were no other households with the names I used, there actually were. They were living in Bluewater and I never play them, so had completely forgotten about them. Yes, I know I am an idiot. I only found out about them when I installed Sim PE, since I thought that was now my only way to increase the funds. I saw their names in the list of Sim Families. The other two households in Bluewater got the money that I tried to give the ones in Pleasantview.

No worries. I was having trouble in one of my neighborhood because the founding family just happened to have the same last name as the townie "family".

[snapdragon]

Cheats aren't something we can modify around here, so please think hard about what happened to your sims and their families and let us know if you come up with some idea.

Okay, I will publicly humiiiate myself by admitting that while I thought there were no other households with the names I used, there actually were. They were living in Bluewater and I never play them, so had completely forgotten about them. Yes, I know I am an idiot. I only found out about them when I installed Sim PE, since I thought that was now my only way to increase the funds. I saw their names in the list of Sim Families. The other two households in Bluewater got the money that I tried to give the ones in Pleasantview.

No worries. I was having trouble in one of my neighborhood because the founding family just happened to have the same last name as the townie "family".

Thanks! I don't like to make a fool of myself anywhere, but especially not here!