There aren’t any inherent risks, per se. They are a feature of the game itself (not saying they can’t be broken :P) but they won’t automatically cause corruption or anything. I’ve just had problems with neighbors getting stuck, multiplying apartment residents, and most recently, apartment landlord and residents getting stuck in the foundation (how?? why?? I keep moving them back into the building using cheats, then hours later I get the pop-up indicating that someone has passed out on the lot, and I’m looking everywhere and everywhere and they’re in the foundation). Pescado’s FFS Lot Debugger can fix several apartment problems/glitches, but apparently my apartment neighbors are doomed to be stranded in the foundation forever. XD

Right now I can’t think of any other specific glitches I encountered, but they definitely don’t run as smoothly as a regular residential lot. Which is a shame, because as an apartment-dweller myself, I love the extra realism they add, especially in an urban neighborhood. Monthly rent, pesky neighbors, but also a sense of community with the people living around you. 🙂 (My landlord doesn’t hold pizza parties, but we do get homemade manicotti and struffoli. ^_____^)

Hey! First of all, do you use a Mac? The Clean Installer doesn’t work on Macs (unless you have a Windows partition, I would think?). :

If not, after you install the program, double-click on any Sims2Pack file you have downloaded (in this case, I opened the sushi restaurant), and it should bring up a window like this:

This is a list of all the CC that comes packaged with the lot. You can look through exactly what’s packaged to decide what you would like to install into your own game, and you can uncheck anything you already have (to avoid duplicates) or anything you don’t want installed. 🙂

The first item listed (Izumi Sushi) is the lot itself – you can check under the “Type” column. 🙂 If you ever download something because you want CC it has, but not the lot/Sim itself, you can uncheck this and the Clean Installer will just install the CC you leave checked. 🙂 

When you’re satisfied with the content you have checked or unchecked, just click install!

Just a note: lots don’t package any Maxis recolors, unfortunately, and they will not automatically package the master meshes for any slaved meshes you use, which is why I try to include a folder (in addition to the Sims2Pack) with the other required meshes/recolors. 

I hope this helps! Feel free to message or chat if you have other questions. 😀

Hello! I have my downloads folder (roughly) organized the way I saw @hafiseazale‘s organized when I was in Sims 2 Chat a long time ago. XD Here’s a little preview: 

I read once that the deeper your subfoldering goes (such as “CAS->Clothing->Male->Everyday->Separates->Skell”), the slower your load times. I haven’t tested it both ways, but anyway, that’s why I have so many individual folders immediately within my main downloads folder and few subfolders. ^^; 

After the buy mode stuff, my folder goes to “S-DEFAULTS” and “Z-MODS”. 🙂

@allisas uploaded a similar folder system for anyone who just wants to download the empty folders already labeled, you can grab those HERE. The only difference is that I have my buy mode stuff labeled by creator instead of category.

I hope that helps! I’ve been trying to better organize my CC within the actual folders (especially my MaxisRecolors folder – that’s a nightmare). It’s, uh, slow-going. XD