Cheeseball gold-star House Flipper 2 buyers guides
Cheat sheets for all buyers are in a separate post. Below I have the "quick" and dirty guides for how to gold-star specific buyers as fast as I've been able to figure out. I most likely won't be figuring everyone out, especially as I've gold-starred some buyers with much longer builds, but here's what I have for Gary Hood, Mr. Bylowe, and Henry and Polly Spring:
There is a longer experiment post where I figured this out. I cleaned up the lot first (as described below) so I'm not 100% sure if all stages of cleanup are required. This would theoretically work on any cheap non-city lot but add lots of trees if there aren't many (he likes them).
Keep the vast majority of the living trees. Ignore the mushrooms.
Delete dead trees, dead plants, weeds, fallen logs, tree stumps, and most of the regular plants. (A few berry bushes didn't seem to bother him and I don't know if he complains about gardens.)
Delete any other objects like the campfire and stuff people left behind.
Build a simple brick house with one larger room and one small room (floor, walls, ceiling, door into house, door into small room). Do not add windows or lights. Do not retexture anything.
In the bigger room, add a floor mattress single bed, a radio (probably optional), a dresser, a desk, a chair, a fridge, and a microwave.
In the smaller room, add a shower, bathroom sink, and toilet.
If this doesn't gold-star Gary, he mentions wanting a kitchen. Add a new room with a door and a simple kitchen (kitchen sink, oven, stovetop, a random kitchen counter or two, and move the fridge and microwave into the room).
Buy the Former Houseboat.
DO NOT CLEAN ANYTHING! Leave all stains, trash, and weeds alone.
Pick up one of the chipboard pieces in the way of the front door and set it aside (or hold onto it while opening the door, walk in, and let go of the piece so it snaps back into place).
In the kitchen, delete both pieces of the stovetop, the oven, and the kitchen sink. (There may also be a fridge but I forgot to check if it's hiding as the type that looks like a cabinet and it didn't matter.)
In the bathroom, delete the bath, toilet, sink, and mirror.
In the bedroom, delete the TV.
Credit to GingerZPlayZ's proper build for which lot to start with.
Clean up weeds, trash, and stains.
Do NOT retexture or recolor anything, including new brick added in other steps.
Delete all the kid and baby stuff.
Brick in the hole in the kitchen wall leading to the dining room. Demolish the kitchen wall that leads to the hallway, and brick in a wall on each side of the entryway to expand the kitchen. Put Cozy Rosie doors in the new walls so the hall and living room are accessible. Delete the coat rack and entryway stuff. Delete all the kitchen cabinetry / sink / stove, replace everything with Crane equivalents and add more cabinets and hanging cabinets; don't forget the stovetop.
Demolish enough of the wall between the two bathrooms to fit a bathtub. Delete the sinks, mirrors, toilets, and shower. Add the Cozy Rosie bathtub, a toilet, two sinks, and two mirrors.
Delete all the storage-related furniture in the walk-in closet. Add a Cozy Rosie dresser, wardrobe, and Crane hanging cabinets. A Cozy Rosie tall dresser also fits in the bedroom between the bathroom and closet doors.
Add an upright piano to the living room and the Cozy Rosie bench ottoman as a piano bench.
Add pencils and a notebook or two on the office desk for Polly.
Substitute Cozy Rosie furnishings in lots of places not already using that brand and add more of it (bedroom bed, nighstands, nightstand lamps; living room sofa, easy chairs, coffee table, and TV cabinet; office desk chair; dining room chairs; former kids room makes a nice small sitting room).
Add Cozy Rosie decor all over, like the ceramic birds and vases, don't forget to add vase-flowers.
Add some rugs especially the Cozy Rosie round ones. They can be substituted for the rugs in the bedroom and living room as well.
In the back-left section of the yard, brick in a simple garden shed (floor, walls, roof, Cozy Rosie door, Cozy Rosie wall light inside just in case). Inside, put a wheelbarrow, hose, and various garden stuff like empty Cozy Rosie plant pots, big and small shovels and rakes (snap onto the walls), watering cans, and buckets. Cozy Rosie small console tables work well here to add more of that brand to the build and create shelf space in the shed.
Add tons of flowers of various types, you don't have to be picky on color or neat on placing, just spam the yard like nuts. I used stuff like lavender, tulips, irises, roses, crocuses, and a couple of lilac bushes (these are bigger so plan accordingly).
If that doesn't gold-star them, the odds are you need more flowers and possibly more trees.
