Can you run your own bussiness?

[Yuri Bezmenov]

With which expansion? And how can you do it?

[Malaficus Shaikan]

I am going to asume you mean resort? If that is the case island parasdie. Tip get legacy island too map as paradise island map is laggy as hell.
You get it the same way you can get ownership of any building in the town.
Buy it via real estate(pc or phone)

[Proteus]

Aside from the resorts the only businesses the player can run is being self employed in a skill-career (with the AMbitions-EP) (for example, writer or inventor).
In this case he just uses his skill in order to create thigns (for example, books or inventions) and then either gets weekly royalties (as in case of writers) or sells the produced items at the consignment store (for example as self employed inventor or gardener)

You can also become investor in businesses of your neighborhood (that is, you get weekly payments for the money you invested into the businesses ... you canot control them however)

Businesses like in Sims 2 OfB (where you can turn part of your house into a store) aren´t possible in Sims 3, however

[Emmeraldyne]

There's that one Lifetime Reward about owning your own bar though. I've never done it, but wouldn't that be like running your own buisiness? Or do you seriously beef up your mixology skill just to hire someone else to run the bar? Somehow I suspect the latter...

[Proteus]

Originally posted by Melden:

There's that one Lifetime Reward about owning your own bar though. I've never done it, but wouldn't that be like running your own buisiness? Or do you seriously beef up your mixology skill just to hire someone else to run the bar? Somehow I suspect the latter...

Nope, even if you pay out all other partners (and therefore "own" the business) you don´t have any control over it ... I think (but am not 100% sure) you can fire employees, but that´s all about it

[Malaficus Shaikan]

If you buy a location you can: fire the sims working there. build stuff on it(asuming it isnt a rabit hole) get money from it. It isnt so much running a busness(witch is way to much work) as in owning a busness.

[Bailey Bean]

sims 2 had a business one. that may be what your thinking of. I had that one and you could have a lemonade stand, like little shops etc. it was pretty cool.

[Andorxor]

Childs can sell cookies

[carson :)]

Originally posted by Andorxor:

Childs can sell cookies

Children**

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

I am going to asume you mean resort? If that is the case island parasdie. Tip get legacy island too map as paradise island map is laggy as hell.
You get it the same way you can get ownership of any building in the town.
Buy it via real estate(pc or phone)

If you use Nraas Mastercontroller, you can "reset all objects" and the game's lag reduces greatly. Check out my guide on mods for help with that. Also, businesses have multiple stages of ownership that are: partnered or owned. My other guide explains this aswell.