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At any rate, Edit Town is the only way to place a premade house unless you're going to try to use Create a World outside of the regular game. From regular playing mode, you have to build.
In Edit Town mode, you need to either find the lot where you want to place the house or place a new lot. The lot sizes should match, but a lot that is larger than the premade can be made to work if you don't mind the lot edges not lining up neatly. Once you have found a suitable lot and have verified that it is set to "residential," go into your bin (the three tabs at the bottom) and select the one with the house icon on it. Locate the house that you want to place and select "place a copy". If the house is not showing on that tab, then it likely needs to be installed through either the launcher or the download manager.
The game will then show you the available lots where the copy will fit. Select your chosen lot and the game will place the house and all of its contents onto it and then offer you the option of rotating or moving the premade into position on the lot. Once you're satisfied with the placement, accept the change and it will take you back into Edit Town mode. If you're satisfied with the placement and changes, exit Edit Town mode and the new house will be available for your Sims to buy and move into through the Real Estate menu (smartphone or any computer).
This does not generally work well for me at the start of a game because the families that come out of Create-a-Sim don't have huge amounts of money and I haven't been able to get the freerealestate cheat to work. So what I typically do is to drop my new family onto an empty lot somewhere, pause the game, cheat them enough money to buy the property that I want to put them in, have them buy and move into it with someone's smartphone, and then unpause.
No one is passing along bad information and anyone using their personal time and resources to answer a question from a complete stranger is not being ungrateful, although you certainly give that impression. My earlier comment about honey and vinegar is still applicable. The lot bin is exactly where I said it was:
Go into Edit Town mode. It's on the main menu and for some reason or other the developers decided to call it "Edit Town" rather than "Click here to make changes to the town." Really confusing, I know, but developers do that kind of thing. There are three tabs immediately in front of you.
One has a solid house icon that says "Show Households" when you mouse over it. If your eyes are working, you'll see that it contains saved Sims and their families. Unless you've saved households with their houses, it will just be families of Sims and that's all. If you have saved households with their house, then you'll see the family and it will have a little house icon in one of the corners.
The middle tab has an empty house icon that says "Show Empty Houses" when you mouse over it. This is the lot bin and it contains all of the saved houses and other residential lots. Which ones are available depends on what you have installed or saved.
The third has a park bench icon that says "Show Community Lots" when you mouse over it. It contains all of the venues that you can place. Which venues are available depends on which expansion packs or stuff packs or other downloaded content you might have installed.
So go to the Empty Houses tab, find the house that you want to place (there is a scroll bar at the bottom if you didn't see it), click on the house you want to place, select "Place a Copy" and then find a suitable lot to put it on. Remember that the lot you put it on has to be at least as big as the lot you're trying to place. It can be bigger, but cannot be smaller. Once it is positioned the way you want it, click the BIG "Accept Changes" button and then click the BIG "Return to Game" button to go back into regular game mode.
(UPDATE) i think it isnt working because i saved the family and the house because i dont know how to put the family in the clipboard so tell me the clipboard please
The clipboard is where Sims or families go when you evict them from their house. In Edit Town mode, click on the house and you'll see some buttons on the open tab. Mouse over them to see which is which, but Evict moves them to the clipboard.
Once they are on the clipboard you can either put them back into the original house (it's a quick and dirty way of resetting the family, the house, and all of the objects in the house) or you can place them into another house. If they are still on the clipboard when you return to the game, the family is deleted, so make sure to put them somewhere, even if it's an empty lot, before returning to the game.
If you saved the family with the house, then they are on the tab with the solid house icon. Just look for the thumbnail that has a house in one of the corners. If all you want is the house, place the family with the house onto an empty lot of the appropriate size, evict the family and then either put them into another house or just return to the game (they'll be deleted, but the house will remain).
click on the house and you'll see a button that looks like a file folder. Click it and the house will be saved.
click on the house and you'll see a button that looks like a file folder. Click it and the house will be saved. You can't save houses or sims from live mode.
By clicking the button that I circled in red.
http://imgur.com/heTOYXk
It looks like a file folder and clicking it saves the house to your bin, under the empty houses tab, in Edit Town mode. This is not horribly complicated stuff. I have several dozen houses in my bin that I have saved in exactly this way, so if it's not working for you, I don't know what else to tell you.