I installed apartment life yesterday and i played around with a few families in apts. before i decided to enable hacks. i shut it down and restarted it to enable hacks. i created my own family and moved them into an apartment. i rented an apartment but the notification that i still needed to rent apartment kept popping up every second. then i started getting errors for one of my playable characters that there was an error in apt controllers. so i returned to the neighborhood and tried to start it again. same thing.

i disable hacks and shut it off. running the hack conflict detection it didn't come up with any conflicts. i took them out of my downloads folder anyway and restarted. attempted to play the family and the same error. just to make sure i moved in a premade family from the apt life pool but i still got the same error?

by the way these are maxis apts. no customs

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i've done all of that and it doesn't help. and the newest apt life patch that i hadn't downloaded until just a little while ago

Okay, so even reinstalling didn't help?

Can you post your system specs?