Tenants

In accordance with the houses, tenants come in five levels. They will reproduce only in a house of their own level, but will always pay rent. For every level there is a maximum rent. It is £500 for level one, £750 for level two, £1000 for level three, and £1500 for level four. For level five tenants it is not relevant any more, not even for level four tenants, for the maximum rent you can get is £1350. Within this limit, you will find that tenants of a lower level often pay a higher rent for a given building. This is especially true for the hippie Students, who pay the best rents for houses up to the level four Mock Tudor. For every level there are two different families, one of them quicker at reproduction, the other paying the higher rent. I call them breeders and rent-payers.

NOTE: The following information was collected on easy difficulty. With higher difficulty settings, tenants will complain and demand a lot more.

Slobs (level 1 breeders)

They were originally called skinheads. In the beginning, you will rent to them a lot. They want one tree in their garden.

Greasers (level 1 rent-payers)

They pay the highest rent you can get for a bungalow. Like most tenants, they want two trees in their garden.

Punks (level 2 breeders)

They are the least complicated tenants of them all. They don't need trees or anything else. Only rent-paying Punks occasionally complain about Students living next door.

Students (level 2 rent-payers)

They were probably called Students to avoid confusion with the undesirable hippies, for that's what they really are. They won't live behind anything but a Country Hedgerow. Students are very good rent-payers: Up to Mock Tudor, they pay the highest rent you can get.

Tenants of level 3 and above are considered high-level tenants. Every fifth of each category will become a super tenant, giving you advantages in a game against opponents. Except for the tax consultant, super tenants are useless in a game without opponents.

Nerds (level 3 breeders)

They absolutely insist on a white picket fence. Otherwise they have no wishes, not even for trees. Every fifth Nerd family will be an accountant, reducing your bank rates and increasing those of your opponents.

The Major and Wife (level 3 rent-payers)

For Scottish Lodges and Town Houses, the Major pays the best rent you can get, but he has a few knacks. He absolutely detests lawn gnomes (understandably, I say) and will complain even if there is one in his neighbors' garden. And he will complain about a few types of fences: If he has railings, he will demand a hedge, If he has a dry stone wall, he will demand railings, if he has a solid brick wall, he will demand a dry stone wall. Putting him into a house with a solid brick wall will thus send you through a series of three complaints. Every fifth Major will set up a neighborhood watch, preventing enemy hippies from squatting in empty buildings.

Yuppies (level 4 breeders)

These Ferrari-driving upstarts will occasionally demand garden features, garden furniture will usually do. If you give them a large enough garden the complaint won't occur. They are rather picky about the fence around their garden, accepting only solid brick wall, brick hedge, railings or immovable monolith, which is what they'll demand (calling it, however, an Art Deco wall) when given something they don't like. Every fifth Yuppie family will be a financial advisor, reducing your tax rates and increasing those of your opponents. That would make them the only super tenants useful in a game without opponents, but the tax break is hardly worth the rent you miss out on them.

The Professor and Wife (level 4 rent-payers)

He wants a garden shed for his experiments. Otherwise he is an unproblematic tenant, pays good rent (in level five houses, the same as the Sloanes) and has the highest life expectancy of all tenants. Every fifth Professor will become a General Practicioner, causing all opponents' hospitals to cease to function.

Stockbrokers (level 5 breeders)

They are adamant about having railings around their lot (they will accept monolith too) but otherwise have no wishes, not even trees. Every fifth Stockbroker family will be a magistrate (or Justice of Peace, as shown on the graphic), causing longer jail sentences for incarcerated enemy undesirables.

Sloanes (level 5 rent-payers)

Like Yuppies, they will demand garden features when unhappy. They only accept brick hedge (preferrable), railings and monolith around their estates. Every fifth Sloane family will run an insurance company, paying you at the end of each year for any buildings destroyed by explosion.

It should be noted that except for the Professor, no tenants really require any garden gadgets. When they get unhappy (the exact trigger level varies), they will file some sort of complaint. Low level tenants demand that you lower their rent, Yuppies and Sloanes demand garden features. I have not been able to entice complaints from other tenants yet.