You build these properties with the intention of letting most of the rooms and apartments out for a profit. You may, however, reserve one standard room or apartment for your personal use.

Details of 'Star' ratings

Slumming It – very cheap rented accommodation.

• Shack - a single room building with little more than a bed and a stool. Found in Shanty towns, Favelas and slums. No Toilets, cook over an open fire etc.
• Passage Housing – Cheap housing for the workers. The passage is about 5 feet wide and perhaps 40 feet long. It is lined with rooms, three stories high, all reached by dark dingy staircases. Average room size is something less than 15×10 and they are rented out separately. The only facilities are a toilet in the yard. This is the standard housing that is built to accommodate workers when they arrive - just about every district has its share of these. Cheap to build and cheap to rent, they are built by 'invisible Investors' every time a new business is created. A block of 24 rooms could house 50 people. There are sometimes called Back-to-backs - as they only have windows on the passage side of the room. That means another passage can be built immediately next to them.
• Tenement – Block of basic housing with a mix of dormitory accommodation and rooms of various sizes. Large rooms might have screens or curtains rigged to give separate areas and a modicum of privacy. Cooking in small fireplaces in the room, a few shared outside toilets. Ground floor is generally a basic business, such as a cheap bar, soup kitchen, second hand clothes, penny store, etc. This is the best value building for landlords – and needed because they provide an affordable home to most of the town’s workers. Think of building block arranged around a small dark courtyard - it is half a step up from passage housing.

In Business – reasonable rented accommodation.

• Apartment blocks – accommodation blocks made up of apartments of various sizes – from family homes to a nice room for the discerning man about town. They have decent sized fireplaces, and enough shared toilets to go around. Much of the ground floor is given over to business – Possibly a grocer, tailor or offices. Better quality accommodation, for more successful of the city's workers.
• Lodging House - Rooms and lodgings for the discerning lady or gentlemen about town. The house has a bathroom and sufficient toilets. The landlady will deliver light meals to your rooms, make sure they are cleaned and get your laundry done for you. A suitable home for master craftsmen, professionals and military officers.

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