Landlord

The Landlord, or Property Owner, is an NPC that came with The Sims 2: Apartment Life and The Sims 4: City Living and is a business featured in The Sims 4: For Rent. Their job is to maintain the communal living space of the apartment and collect rent from tenants.
==The Urbz: Sims in the City==
One of the villains in The Urbz: Sims in the City, Harry Snivel is also the player's landlord and repo-man. As the player's reputation rises and the other apartments are unlocked, the rent that the player must pay increases. Refusal to pay the rent first time will have him come to the apartment to give the player a second chance to pay. If the player again refuses to pay, he will repossess some items in order to cover the bill. A larger bill cannot be evaded by having the player live in the first apartment when all three are unlocked.
==The Sims 2: Apartment Life==
When a Sim first enters an apartment lot, the landlord will come to greet them and will wait until the player chooses an apartment. After that, the landlord will ask the Sim to sign the rental agreement and pay their first week's rent.
Landlords will come every day to do the gardening and clean the outdoors. They will also throw an apartment party every Saturday, where they order pizza (or grill if a barbeque is present in a communal area), while other neighbors socialize.
The landlord replaces the repairman and exterminator services; if there are broken objects or roaches on the lot, an option will appear on the telephone allowing Sims to request the landlord's services. They also replace the gardener service as landlords will tend to all plants and tree regardless of whether the plant is indoors, outdoors or in the sims outdoor apartment area such as a balcony or backyard. 
If a Sim has a high enough relationship with the landlord, there is a good chance that their rent will be reduced.
Landlords can marry and move in with a Sim. They will be replaced by a new Landlord if that happens.
The pre-made landlords are the same for every neighborhood, but they will have randomly assigned names in each game.
===List of landlords===
*Vyn Shaw
*Nicholas Landchild
*Steven Butler
==The Sims 4: City Living==
In The Sims 4: City Living, landlords are NPCs who are in charge of the apartment building. Unlike The Sims 2: Apartment Life, they don't normally hang out in communal areas and they don't come to collect rent personally.
Landlords replace the repairman. Sims can call landlords to help with things such as clearing out pests, repairing, broken objects, and fixing plumbing or faulty electrical wires. A Sim who has a good relationship with the landlord will have them wanting to fix broken objects more frequently. If the landlord is called too often, they will refuse to fix whatever problems are in the apartment.
Unlike in The Sims 2: Apartment Life, landlords are usually randomly selected townies and are not pre-made NPCs. If a landlord is deleted, they will be replaced by a new one.
==The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle==
Landlords do not appear in The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle. However, if The Sims 4: City Living is installed, they will appear and they will function exactly the same as landlords from The Sims 4: City Living.
==The Sims 4: For Rent==
Landlords return in The Sims 4: For Rent as property owners. Property owners will collect rent from apartments and can live in their own apartments without having to pay rent themselves. Property owners can be NPCs or playable Sims.
Property owners, like landlords in The Sims 2: Apartment Life, replace repairmen. They are also tasked with clearing out pest or mold problems in their tenants' units. Property owners can also set unit rules which tenants must abide by, and enforce them with fines or evictions. Whenever moving into a residential rental, tenants will automatically have their property owner in their relationship panel for contact. Tenants can ask their property owners to inspect appliances and plumbing on the lot.
Sims are able to become landlords themselves under the property management business with players being able to create residential rentals for their Sims to purchase and rent out via designated units. Since property ownership works like other businesses, every Sim in the family will be able to also own the residential rental lots other than the Sim who buys them; however, only teens or older property owners in the household will be able to access the "Rental" interaction category.
===Property Owner Interactions===
As property owner, players have access to the rental social category for interacting with tenants similar to how tenants have the same category for interactions based around other tenants and speaking with their property owner.
*Ask About Rental Conditions
*Blame Tenants (If Unit Rating is low enough)
*Commend Tenants
*Unjustly Evict (Only when tenants have not broken rules or not due rent)
*Justly Evict (When tenant has broken rules or has not paid rent)
There are two pre-made property owners:
===List of Property Owners===
*Panya Li
*Cahyaputri family
When moving into a residential rental that isn't owned by another Sim, Panya Li will become the default landlord, Panya can be given all normal socials such as friendly, romance, mean, etc. as well as the rental category like other property owners and tenants. Should Panya no longer be the property owner, a randomly generated property owner will take his place for any previously unowned residential rentals.
The Cahyaputri family owns the Taka Soi 15 residential rental lot in the Morensong neighborhood of Tomarang.
Player made property owners can move in with their tenants either platonically with high friendship or through being lovers with high romance and getting married.
==Trivia==
* There is a glitch in The Sims 2: Apartment Life where if a landlord is invited to stay once their work is done, they will be unable to exit the sims apartment if they are asked to leave or say goodbye inside the sims apartment. Unlocking the apartment door will allow the landlord to leave but it is strongly recommended that it is locked once they have left to Allow Household Only to stop sims living in the surrounding apartments entering the apartment. Landlords can enter and exit the apartment as they like when they are on the lot and aren't leaving. 
** It is odd that the landlord is unable to leave the apartment once they have said goodbye or been asked to leave seeing as they own the apartments and seeing as visiting sims and NPCs such as the maid can leave.
pt-br:Síndico
ru:Арендодатель
Category:Types of NPCs
Category:Apartment Life
Category:City Living
Category:For Rent