I wanted to send to college the six descendants of Jonathan Tricou, but could not recognise all six of their faces. Their names are different every time, of course, so that is no guide. Five of them I recognised, and sent them to Contrary House, a dorm with six rooms. As soon as the first Tricou stepped out of the taxi I was able to check the name of the sixth relation, but could not save and go back for him until the fifth Tricou had stepped out of the taxi. Meanwhile, a townie called Ethan strolled in and claimed one of the rooms.

I know there are fifty ways to leave your lover, but how many ways are there to evict a troublesome townie? Each time one of the Tricous leaves the dorm and returns, a notice pops up: Looks like there are not enough rooms, but don't worry - the townie will clear one for you. This is not true; the townie is still in stolid possession. To be fair, he has not locked his door, so my sim can still use the bed and en suite bathroom; but I'd love to be rid of the nuisance.

All suggestions, however gory, will be gratefully considered.

Kill off the Townie.

I always just make the dormie selectable, have him/her unclaim the door, then send my sim over to claim and lock the door. Then make the (now ex) dormie unselectable and have my sim say good-bye to him/her.
Works like a charm for me. :D

Move in the last Tricou. The dormie will move out to make room for him.

I hope that he is a dormie not a townie, if he is indeed a townie you have a serious issue. The normal way uni works is you bring in a playable and a dormie leaves. If that isn't happening you have some glitch.

Did cheeky townie unclaimed room? Did your sim claim the room? The former dormie may still remain in the dorm for a while, unless a playable sim says goodbye to him/her.

Or: Move your students altogether in another dorm.

The dormie should leave when you move your Tricou in. Some dormies take a bit longer to realise they have to leave - one of my students slept on a bed in a passage once until the dormie left. If it is a question of you don't want him there at all, move your Sims out and move them in another dorm (after moving the last Tricou in), It helps if you have a copy of your dorm in the lot bin.

'Townie' was the word used in the pop-up that assured me he would leave. You're right, I have a glitch. This has often happened before, that the non-playable will not leave to make room for a playable. Don't know how to set about finding the glitch.

It's annoying to have the room blacked out until my playable sim is actually standing beside the bed. I do have a copy of Contrary House, my favourite dorm. Each of the six upstairs rooms has an en-suite bathroom, which saves me the trouble of finding facilities for each student for the morning shower or afternoon bubble bath. I might indeed move out all the playables, bulldoze the dorm, and replace it. I wonder whether Ethan will try to come skidding back in?

The dormie's failure to leave is probably caused by bad CC, sounds like it's time for a 50/50 search.

Dormies sometimes take longer to leave in my experience - but it does interfere with play, so I'd go for moving them into another dorm after adding the last Tricou to the family. In my game the word popping up is always 'townie' and it refers to dormies moving in uninvited.

That was the first thing I did: used the simblender to make Ethan selectable, and then pointed to the room door. No Options Available. There is a very limited selection of commands you can give a newly-selected sim. Suggesting that he is hungry and might like to eat is nearly always successful. Directing him to the loo also works, but not to the bath. Strangely enough, pointing out that the cowplant is offering cake is also successful; but suggesting he might drop out of college will not work. I wonder what the guidelines are?

At this point, Ethan seems so tenacious that I almost feel bad for the guy. I mean, he just wants a college education! Is that so much to ask? Do you have any idea how hard he worked to get this far?! Although he kind of messed up your original idea, maybe he just deserves to become a playable at this point. I like to take this kind of thing in stride and incorporate it into my game.

That said, it sounds like things are kind of messed up with your game if he won't leave, and you should probably do that 50/50 search. Sorry this is frustrating you. I hope you figure things out soon!

I've had this problem a couple times but making the dormie selectable and having them unclaim the door always worked for me. Try deleting the door and placing a new one. You'll probably need the 'boolprop dormspecifictoolsdisabled false' and 'moveobjects on' to do it. And, of course, back-up your neighborhood first!

Actually, if I remember right, Maxis does use the word "townie" in the pop-up, and I can't remember a single time when they used the word "dormie". In fact, I used to refer to them as "college townies" until I heard people using the word "dormie" online.

This sometimes happens to me, and moving out and in the affected students seems to fix it. It can be caused by making a dormie selectable or moving a sim in in a non-standard way.

Actually, I agree with you. While he was selected, I noticed that he was quite a nice guy, friendly but modest, reasonably good looking. Mostly he just sits reading in the library, with occasional forays into his bathroom. He's no trouble. Perhaps I'll get over to the Greek house, and get someone to pledge him. It may take a few generations, but this sim will live!

Well, is that not typical of the uninvited Sim - being so damn likable that you have to keep him around!