What!!!!! I can build a house without having a family own the lot first??? I may have died and gone to heaven!!!! Is that true? HOWWW? pls?

Oh, and I modified a house that I got in game, as I almost always do...  The first time this happened, I lost her entirely because I freaked and deleted and reinstalled the whole thing.. without saving my stuff..... grrrrr Second time was in a totally different neighborhood. First time was in one I created, second time in a Maxis neighborhood. I am thinking seriously of reinstalling it again tonight and checking again ... but since I am sooooo loathe to do that, I will fire up the game and see if it locks.. then go from there. Thanks.

What!!!!! I can build a house without having a family own the lot first??? I may have died and gone to heaven!!!! Is that true? HOWWW? pls?

Well, since I have only been able to create two families... I didn't think I could have much population, but what I have read here scares me! I am just about to reinstall everything from scratch! My granddaughter thought it would be wise to have a University with each neighborhood, so she did. There are only 5 neighborhoods and we only played three so far, but that sounds like it could be an issue which I don't need on top of the other ones I have. I had been wondering how many families I could put into a neighborhood. The way things were going, it seemed like two was my tops... LOL... Obviously I have some other things happening..... *sigh*

I had assigned this problem to the fact that my thingamabog is a 750 instead of an 850, but on the off chance that someone can suggest a remedy, here goes:

I installed games with University, created a wonderful 'romancy, sexy player girl'.... stood her on her lot, went into build and made her a fabulous house. Just as I finished, it cut away to her and then, I saved, and tried to play. She refused to move. I got no menus at all from her. Broken ... kaput... fooey! Ok... I evicted her. tore down the place, and then went back and tried to move her into a new place. The game froze at the entering neighborhood screen. I had to 'hard shut down' my computer.

I restarted it, tried to move her in again; same result. I would just throw her out and start over, but it happened with a previous version of her as well. It wasn't the exact same Sim both times. The creation was new and the skins were not the same at all. I thought it might be that I had built her in a terrain I had downloaded somewhere, but it was the Maxis Ying Yang Terrain the second time, so that shouldn't be the issue.

Any thoughts? Thanks! Oh yes.. there are no Hacks of any kind in the game at this time, nor were there the first time.

Hello!! I am Brand New here.. and I LOVE it already! I do so hate the way Maxis made 'elders'. Thank you for this wonderful gift!!!