Sometimes I don't get this game.

Me: Argh, this house that I just built in Sims 2 costs $33,000, ergo a new family cannot move into it because families only start with 20k. Oh well, I'll delete some furniture and wallpaper and stuff and the eventual tenants can replace it once they get jobs.
House value: [goes down to about 22k]
Me: Okay, I'll delete some walls too. I'll remember where they went, I can put them back later.
House value: [still over 20k]
Me: I'll... delete part of the porch?
House value: [jumps up to 35k]
Me: Dammit! Put the porch back! Put it back!
House value: [down to about 22k again]
Me: ...I'll delete some more unneeded walls? And maybe a couple windows?
House value: [jumps up to 27k again]
Me: Fuckit. I'll put everything back and just use cheats to get someone in here. [rebuilds house exactly as it was, minus an end table, a lamp, and a couple of OMSPs¹]
House value: $78,899

...whatever.


1. OMSP: One More Slot Package. It's basically a plain, boring-looking block that is the same height as an in-game object, like a counter or the piano, and it can be clicked on and "recolored" invisible. So if you're like "I want to have this vase of flowers on the piano!" then you put down a piano-height OMSP, put the vase on the OMSP, move the OMSP so it occupies the same spot as the piano, then recolor the OMSP invisible. Now it looks like your vase is on the piano, even though technically it's not.

And now you know.