House Value Experimentation Notes

[emgeal]

Please feel free to put experimentation notes as we try to figure out the metric's for house values. Include what perks (if any) for home buying you have activated at time of sale.

Blue Bungalow Experiment:
Sold all sellable items (including lights, switches, plants), picked up all trash, cleaned all dirt. This means the house had no doors, windows, furniture, etc.

No Perks Activated: House Cost (46,000), Sold items +22,877
Offered Amount: 24,800
Total Profit: 1,677

Activated Tough Negotiator : House Cost (46,000), Sold Items +21,419 (Not sure why there is a difference of $1,458. Either I missed stuff or something else changed.)
Offered Amount 25,900
Total Profit: 1,319

Other experiments I will try as time allows:
Above + Paint Walls and Redo Floors
Fill house with single expensive item like a bed on entire floorspace
Guess at house basics
Guess at house basics + fill all floorspace with expensive item

[suspiria_2]

Desolate Villa

Cleaned everything (even the flat roof), removed all garbage, sold everything except the trash bins and left all the exterior plants hanging over and into the house. only removed the plants growing through the floors inside the house. even left the plants growing on the roof.

Put windows in all available window openings and doors, but some openings were left open.

I have all cleaning and building perks, but only one selling perk.

Custom tiled every wall with 2/3 different patterns, tiled all floors inside. Never touched my painbrush.

Furnished every room--1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1 office, 1 open plan living/dining room, 1 kitchen, and upstairs was mostly a games room. Included a bit of clutter in each room but nothing extreme. Garage had lights and a trash bin.

Added onto the driveway and put lights and a small bit of furniture outside around the building at various points (effect and utility lighting).

Had 2 buyers bidding, made $250k profit.

Retired and now living on an island.

[Playzr 🐵]

I worked on the first cheapest house, the bee one. I had sold everything, redid all the walls. Very minimal furnishing. I would've made it more of an open plan by merging the kitchen and the weird living room wall to make more space but I haven't unlocked the demolition or wall building tool yet.
Sold for £17k profit. I thought it was a poor profit since a small job would come close to that. It is only a small house though.

[akaplan1]

I wish we didn’t have to furnish the houses ourselves. I’d love an option to “purchase” a staging service for the flips. I’m more into the refurbishing and renovation aspect, so furnishing afterward is tedious for me. But it seems like that’s where 90% of the value comes from, because I basically break even unless I furnish.

[suspiria_2]

Originally posted by akaplan1:

I wish we didn’t have to furnish the houses ourselves. I’d love an option to “purchase” a staging service for the flips. I’m more into the refurbishing and renovation aspect, so furnishing afterward is tedious for me. But it seems like that’s where 90% of the value comes from, because I basically break even unless I furnish.

if the mechanics are anything like HF1, then just put the absolute essentials to designate a room. i don't see a room designation but i think if you just put bed, dresser it's a bedroom, any bath fixture and it's a bathroom, a hob and fridge and sink and it's a kitchen, and sofa and TV and you have living room. the house i made the big sale on that's basically what i did, just adding like a few (2-3) clutter items in each room and arranging things sensibly. nothing too overboard.

i have also wondered if, like the other game, arrangement means anything or if you can just throw things down and be done. i would try that, if you really hate object placement (gets too OCD sometimes 9-D) and see if it makes any difference.

i will keep up my experimentation here. I just sold two of the more expensive homes in the game that were mostly already decorated (Charity Mansion and Cobblestone House) and made $8k and $40k respectively. The only thing i did was remove dirt, trash objects, and some clutter objects. I left all paintings and decor.

Does anyone else think that the cost sheet for when you go to auction is mis-calculating what you should think you deserve (a seller at least wants their purchase cost plus materials or "break even")? It lists purchase cost, furniture sold, and "renovation cost" and then seems to deduct the last from the first. Or is it just too early for me to be doing math?

[Playzr 🐵]

I did wonder what would happen if you simply stacked a bunch of furniture filling a room so you can't move, to maximise the profit, instead of making it look good. The game doesn't recognise what furniture and what placement is best. Or does it? Probably not