Rent Please! Landlord Sim Guide: Beginner Tips
Rent Please! Landlord Sim is a sim tycoon game where you build and upgrade an apartment, earn money from it, and then reinvest that money to improve it.
But it can be difficult if you don’t know how to manage it or what to prioritize first, so in this Rent Please! Landlord Sim beginner guide, I’ll cover everything you need to know to progress effectively and efficiently.
The First Priority You Need to Focus On
Cash is king.
It’s an investing phrase, and it applies to Rent Please! Landlord Sim, too.
Focus on Cash first before you think about anything else in this game. Based on my experience, almost everything you need to buy or upgrade costs Cash.
It’s even more important than a limited currency like Diamond, especially in the early game. That’s how I felt when I was playing this game.
So if you find anything that can increase your Cash income, make that your priority.
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Best Way to Get Cash in the Beginning?
There are many ways to get Cash in Rent Please! Landlord Sim, you can get Cash by upgrading your room, collecting money from buildings like a cafe or laundry, afk rewards, watching ads, and completing missions.
Based on my early-game progression, the best way to farm Cash is by completing Main Missions. It saves you a lot of time because it’s very quick to do. You just need to do what they ask, and they reward you with a lot of Cash.
Something like 2000 Cash early on is a lot in Rent Please! Landlord Sim. Main Missions can constantly give you this.
But as you progress, there are better ways to farm Cash, like upgrading your apartment and AFK rewards. I will explain the details later in this guide
How to Upgrade Room Wisely?
Now that you have enough Cash to upgrade your apartment, what should you upgrade first?
There are six parts in one apartment:
- Bed
- Kitchen
- Bathroom
- Shower
- Decoration
- Desk
You can choose which one to upgrade first. But in my experience, the best first step in the early game is to follow the main quest.
Like this one, for example, they told me to upgrade the Desk in Rm. 102, Apt. 2 to Lv. 4. So it means this is my first priority to upgrade.
And once I upgrade it, then I can choose the next one. This is the list of what you should focus on first in Rent Please! Landlord Sim, in order:
- Bed
- Desk
- Decoration
- Kitchen
- Bathroom
- Shower
The bed has the highest Return on Investment (ROI), followed by the desk, Decoration, and so on. You know the point.
More Room Is The Best Choice
Opening up more room in your apartment means more income because you can attract more tenants.
As long as you have the Cash to unlock more room, unlock it quickly. There is no better choice than opening up more space in your apartment.
Because the rule in Rent Please! Landlord Sim is simple: more tenants = more money.
But remember, unlocking more room can be expensive, both on the first day and later. So you don’t need to abandon anything else just to unlock more. Keep progressing steadily to generate more income.
Tenants are Your Friend
In Rent Please! In Landlord Sim, your tenants are the most important part, so treat them well. They are your customers who pay you money.
You need to do some management tasks to manage your tenants. I will explain them in this beginner guide, one by one, based on my experience.
Follow Their Request
In the group chat, your tenants will keep asking for your help. Don’t get bothered by it. Remember, you are a landlord in Rent Please! Landlord Sim. So you are basically working in the service industry. Your job is always to meet your customers’ needs.
If you do this successfully, they will give you Red Flower, which you use to improve your relationship with your Tenants.
This is important for two reasons. First, they will give you more Cash per rent. Second, they will give you some limited rewards like new outfits.
Listen to Their Story Carefully and Answer Wisely
As your relationship with your tenants grows, they will open up, share their stories, and even ask for your suggestions.
You always have three choices in how you respond. Different responses lead to different stories, and eventually, different rewards.
The gap between being a good listener and a bad listener is huge. Just look at what I’ve got: 1 Cash vs. 5 Diamond is a wide gap.
I got 1 Cash because I gave them bad advice, and I got 5 Diamond because I gave them good advice.
Don’t Hesitate to Kick Your Tenants
I know it sounds bad, especially since I said “Tenants are your friend” before. But managing apartments still costs money, and sometimes you need to let unemployed tenants go so someone with a higher income can move in.
It is also important because Main Mission sometimes asks you to have a certain number of Tenants, like Two Model or Two NEET. And you can’t pass this mission if your apartment is full.
How to Increase Community Prosperity Level?
Community Prosperity is basically your account level in Rent Please! Landlord Sim. It’s important because it unlocks a lot of things. Like new kinds of tenants, new buildings, new game mechanics, etc.
The only way to increase your Community Prosperity EXP or level is to upgrade something in your apartment or its surroundings.
Based on my understanding, the best strategy to do it is by upgrading everything that looks cheap. So don’t upgrade something if that’s too expensive for your wallet. Start with the cheaper upgrade first.
If you think your rooms are already too expensive, then you can upgrade your Cafe, Laundry, Gym, etc. There is no limit to upgrades in Rent Please! Landlord Sim after all.
Landlord Ability in Rent Please! Landlord Sim
Once you reach Community Prosperity Level 3, you unlock Landlord Ability. It’s a buff to your account that passively increases things like Cash from ads, AFK duration, and reduces upgrade costs.
How to Upgrade Landlord Ability?
The materials needed to upgrade your Landlord Ability are very limited. It’s called Ability Points, and the only way to get them is by increasing your asset value.
You will get Ability Points each time you increase your asset value. There are two ways to increase your asset value. First, by increasing your outfit collection. Second, by collecting furniture and properties.
I say Ability Points are very limited because collecting outfits, furniture, and properties in Rent Please! Landlord Sim is hard. Some come from limited events or completing later quests.
That’s why you should always be careful about how you spend your Ability Points.
Best Landlord Abilities to Upgrade First
There are six Landlord Abilities, and because the required materials are limited, you can only focus on a few in the early game.
This is the ranking of the best Landlord Abilities from best to worst:
- Offline Hourglass
- Decoration Discount
- Happy Boost
- Fast Construction
- Offline TV
- Generous Cashdaddy
But for me personally, only two really stand out as impactful in Rent Please! Landlord Sim, it’s Offline Hourglass and Decoration Discount. They aren’t ad-related, and they are useful and directly tied to your Cash.
The rest are just bonuses and aren’t required for your account. You can leave them at the basic level early in the game.
AFK Rewards are a Lot
The more you progress and upgrade in Landlord Sim, the more AFK rewards you get.
It will eventually become your biggest Cash machine in the game. Plus, you can double it by watching ads. This is the only time watching ads matters in this game, besides cutting building upgrade time, of course.
Once you collect your AFK rewards, don’t forget to use the speed-up button in the bottom right. It can grant you some cash, even though it’s not as much as the AFK rewards.
