Selling Lower Level Buildings

[white frog]

I've had a few requests for further information and discussion on this topic, so I've done a little more number crunching and will share the results.

When determining whether or not to replace lower level buildings vs. hood expansion, there are a few variables that one needs to consider, mainly play style and are you a short term, or long term goal player...

Here's a simple way formula that I would recommend to determine what would be the most efficient decision to make on this subject. Remember that all buildings one is considering selling have a potential earning that would be it's income at lvl. 10. This is the # that should be used when determining a buildings worth.

1. Determine how many squares of real estate your next expansion will give you
2. Figure out how much each square will cost, based on the total expansion cost / # of squares
3. From here, determine how much income you are getting from each square of the building in question
4. Now you can determine how long that building would need to pay for the upgrade.

Example:

Tattoo Parlor lvl. 10 = $18,750/day
@ 16 squares, this would be $1171.88 per square, per day
If my next expansion is $2.4 million, and provides 192 squares, then is costs $12,500/square.
At this rate, the Lvl. 10 Tattoo Parlor would take 10.67 days to pay for the space it's taking up.

As the cost of expansions get larger, buildings values will go down substantially. Here's a short list of some of the earlier buildings return values, based on the $2.4 million expansion @ 192 squares:

Tattoo Parlor = $1171 / day / square = 10.67 days
Pawn Shop = $609 / day / square = 20.52 days
Gun Shop = $703.13 / day / square = 17.78 days
Souvenir = $625 / day / square = 20 days
Deli = $562.50 / day / square = 22.22 days
Diner = $625 / day / square = 20 days

You can take the $ / day / square numbers and apply it to your own next expansion to figure out what the return is, but as you can see, at this expansion, all but the Pawn Shop have the potential to be more valuable than the expansion. I would weigh the # of days for each building vs the # of day it would take to save up for the expansion, and go from there.

At the earlier levels, I can't justify getting rid of most of these buildings unless I decide to never upgrade them to level 10. If you don't, you can adjust the $ / day / square with the appropriate #'s for the level you are at for each building, or the max level you plan on taking it to, and go from there.

Remember, don't ever get rid of a building until you have the cash, and are ready to replace it with something better!!!

[CrimeCityJIM]

Thanks for the info

[Santa]

I've had a few requests for further information and discussion on this topic, so I've done a little more number crunching and will share the results.

When determining whether or not to replace lower level buildings vs. hood expansion, there are a few variables that one needs to consider, mainly play style and are you a short term, or long term goal player...

Here's a simple way formula that I would recommend to determine what would be the most efficient decision to make on this subject. Remember that all buildings one is considering selling have a potential earning that would be it's income at lvl. 10. This is the # that should be used when determining a buildings worth.

1. Determine how many squares of real estate your next expansion will give you
2. Figure out how much each square will cost, based on the total expansion cost / # of squares
3. From here, determine how much income you are getting from each square of the building in question
4. Now you can determine how long that building would need to pay for the upgrade.

Example:

Tattoo Parlor lvl. 10 = $18,750/day
@ 16 squares, this would be $1171.88 per square, per day
If my next expansion is $2.4 million, and provides 192 squares, then is costs $12,500/square.
At this rate, the Lvl. 10 Tattoo Parlor would take 10.67 days to pay for the space it's taking up.

As the cost of expansions get larger, buildings values will go down substantially. Here's a short list of some of the earlier buildings return values, based on the $2.4 million expansion @ 192 squares:

Tattoo Parlor = $1171 / day / square = 10.67 days
Pawn Shop = $609 / day / square = 20.52 days
Gun Shop = $8448 / day / square = 1.48 days
Souvenir = $5215 / day / square = 2.39 days
Deli = $4302 / day / square = 2.9 days

You can take the $ / day / square numbers and apply it to your own next expansion to figure out what the return is, but as you can see, at this expansion, all but the Pawn Shop have the potential to be more valuable than the expansion. I would weigh the # of days for each building vs the # of day it would take to save up for the expansion, and go from there.

At the earlier levels, I can't justify getting rid of most of these buildings unless I decide to never upgrade them to level 10. If you don't, you can adjust the $ / day / square with the appropriate #'s for the level you are at for each building, or the max level you plan on taking it to, and go from there.

Remember, don't ever get rid of a building until you have the cash, and are ready to replace it with something better!!!

Absolutely amazing. You could be the new Tramp Stamp!

[yshen]

I have 174 buildings, and still a lot of space remains.

[Sasha54]

Great information - I've been asking on this topic because I have several buildings that I am thinking of selling

So basically you are saying if you have no intention of leveling up a building then get rid of it...

[ShawnBB]

Stats clearly need adjustment when I first glanced at the gun shop section, so are the others.

Daily income per square should be around 773 as for the gun shop,
lol can't be thousands cash that much due to gun shop is as famous as pawn shop are the bottom worth buildings.

[DenZ1]

You just waste too much time on this. Expand the hood to 5M (exclusive) expansion when you can after that you can start selling them out. Simple. Don't over complicate it man. You can always use space for deffense later in the game.

[white frog]

Stats clearly need adjustment when I first glanced at the gun shop section, so are the others.

Daily income per square should be around 773 as for the gun shop,
lol can't be thousands cash that much due to gun shop is as famous as pawn shop are the bottom worth buildings.

You are absolutely right Shawn... I made a mistake in looking at the wrong number in my spreadsheet when working this out. I have adjusted the above post with the correct information.

[white frog]

You just waste too much time on this. Expand the hood to 5M (exclusive) expansion when you can after that you can start selling them out. Simple. Don't over complicate it man. You can always use space for deffense later in the game.

I created this post for those players who have been asking for this information. I worked this out because of popular demand, so if you don't have something constructive to add, then please don't litter the post. Clearly by your last sentence you don't know the first thing of hood efficiency, so come back when you learn!

[Dreno33]

I created this post for those players who have been asking for this information. I worked this out because of popular demand, so if you don't have something constructive to add, then please don't litter the post. Clearly by your last sentence you don't know the first thing of hood efficiency, so come back when you learn!

Couldn't have said better myself, friend.(: