Housing

Housing

Housing in CIT covers player owned houses, house ownership limits, access control, house sales, basements, and the connection between houses and apartments.

This page focuses on the housing system itself. Apartment specific usage, commands, and entry management are covered on the separate apartment page.

Quick house facts

Fact	Value
Default house slots	2
Donator slots	D1 has 3, D2 has 4, D3 has 5
Maximum houses	10 with extra slots bought from F7
Maximum house price	$400,000,000
Basement cost	$10,000,000
Inactive house sale risk	Houses inactive 14 days may go for sale.

House sales count toward both players' transfer limits. Houses can be bought with bank money if you do not have enough cash.

If you want to abandon a house without using a slot, set it for sale at $1.

House controls

Press Z at a house marker. The house GUI shows house name, owner, initial price, bought for, asking price, owner activity level, sale status, interior ID, open status, and basement status.

The GUI can use Toggle House Sale, Open/Close House, Buy This House, Enter House Interior, Enter Apartment Interior, and Buy Basement.

Add items is disabled. Visible item controls let you take items from your house.

Access and safety

CITBook friends can enter locked houses. Police can enter a locked house if a wanted criminal is inside. Players cannot enter interiors for 10 seconds after being hurt.

Quick navigation

Looking for	Go to	Notes
Buy or use houses	Housing	House pages and property rules.
Use apartments	Apartment	Rent and apartment editing.
Build or edit	Building	Building and entity tools.
Use CITy Zones	CITy Zone	Zone and architect pages.
Heist property	Heist Properties	Criminal heist property details.

Housing notes

Housing in CIT mainly includes:

• houses
• house ownership limits
• house locking and sales
• basements
• property viewing through My Properties
• the link between houses and your apartment

CIT has:

• over 3,000 houses across the map

House ownership

How many houses you can own

You can own:

• 2 houses by default
• 3 houses at Donator Level 1
• 4 houses at Donator Level 2
• 5 houses at Donator Level 3

You can also buy extra house slots from:

• F7

The maximum number of houses you can own in total is:

• 10

One way to reach that limit is:

• Donator Level 3 plus 5 bought house slots

Buying a house

To buy a house:

• find a green house icon on the map
• or go to a Real Estate center with a large house icon
• choose the house
• buy it

House Search GUI Houses for sale have green house icons.

You can also use the House Search GUI at Real Estate centers to search houses for sale from one place.

It has filters for:

• zone
• interiors
• max price
• owner

From that menu, you can use:

• View House
• View Interior
• GPS Location
• Buy This House

Selling a house

You cannot sell a house back to the server.

To sell a house:

• go to the house
• press Z
• set the asking price
• use Toggle House Sale

Another player can then:

• press Z
• click Buy This House

House access

Locking a house

To lock or unlock your house:

• press Z

When a house is locked, only:

• you
• your CITBook friends
• law enforcement

can enter.

If the house is unlocked:

• anyone can enter

Friends and marriage access

CITBook friends can enter your locked houses.

Married players can:

• spawn at their partner's house
• spawn at their partner's apartment

House inactivity

Houses owned by players who have not logged in for:

• 14 days

are set for sale.

The house GUI also shows:

• owner activity level

That activity level:

• drops by 1 point every hour you are inactive
• goes up by 1 point for every minute you are online

House robbery

Criminals can rob houses in the House Robbery mission.

They cannot steal:

• your items
• your assets

House menu

To open the house menu:

• go to the house icon
• press Z

The left side shows:

• house name
• owner
• initial price
• bought for
• asking price
• owner activity level
• whether it is for sale

The right side includes:

• Toggle House Sale
• Open/Close House
• Buy This House
• Enter House Interior
• Enter Apartment Interior
• Buy Basement

House features

A house can be used for:

• /sleep
• CITradio
• changing your skin
• using food or drink markers
• buying a basement
• using /home

Healing in a house

Use:

/sleep

in your house to heal over time.

Going to your house

Owning a house does not make it your automatic spawn.

To go there, use:

/home

House furnishing

Regular houses do not have a furniture or decoration system.

House interiors are:

• preset

so you cannot place custom furniture in normal houses.

Basements

A basement is a permanent house upgrade.

Cost:

• $10,000,000

Basement notes:

• it stays even if you sell the house
• you buy it from the basement option at your house

Basements are used to grow:

• Kenaf

Kenaf growth details:

• full growth takes 18 hours
• a basement has 35 plants
• each mature plant gives 9 Kenaf
• a full basement harvest gives 315 Kevlar
• that is enough for 21 Armor (Kevlar) crafts at 15 Kevlar each

Other notes:

• harvesting early gives less
• Kenaf cannot be sold or transferred

Apartments and houses

Apartments are a separate housing related system.

For housing purposes, the important rules are:

• you can only have 1 apartment
• all of your houses share that same apartment
• you do not get one apartment per house
• you cannot sell an apartment, only your house

For apartment renting, access rules, apartment commands, and apartment travel, see the apartment page.

My Properties

Housing and related properties can be viewed through:

• CITPhone > My Properties

You can use it to:

• view your houses
• view your rented factories
• view other live properties
• mark your house on the map

Rented factories can also be found through My Properties. If you double click a rented factory there, it marks the factory with a floppy disk blip.

When you click a house in My Properties, it shows:

• house interior
• whether it is for sale
• asking price
• whether it has a basement
• Kenaf growth percentage if it has a basement

A green house icon means:

• the house is for sale

If a house has a basement, then:

• Kenaf Growth 100% means the Kenaf is ready to harvest

Houses and other property systems

Houses are different from heist properties.

• houses are residential properties bought from green house icons or Real Estate centers
• heist properties are criminal mission bases bought from the property store GUI
• rented factories are separate rentable conversion properties found through My Properties or /gps > Factories

Heist properties

Houses are residential properties.

Heist properties are criminal mission bases bought from the property store GUI.

To buy a heist property, open the property store GUI, select a heist property, and click View or Purchase.

The CIT - Heist Properties GUI lists heist properties across San Andreas. Properties you already own are marked green.

Property	Location	Price
Impostor's Penthouse	Commerce	$18,000,000
Abyss' Restaurant	Dillimore	$11,500,000
Furniture Store	Palomino Creek	$11,500,000
Montgomery Warehouse	Montgomery	$5,000,000
Abyss' Arcade	Old Venturas Strip	$12,500,000
Puppet Master's Lair	The Clown's Pocket	$12,500,000

While viewing a heist property:

• Arrow Left moves to the previous camera
• Arrow Right moves to the next camera
• hold A to move the camera left
• hold D to move the camera right
• hold Alt for slower movement
• hold Shift for faster movement
• press Z to modify a property you own
• press N to stop viewing

House Notes

• apartments cannot be sold
• houses cannot be sold back to the server
• all your houses share one apartment
• regular houses do not support custom furniture placement
• basements remain even if the house is sold

Related notes

• Players cannot enter interiors for 10 seconds after being hurt.
• Players cannot enter interiors if recently hurt.
• Police can enter a locked house if a wanted criminal is inside.
• Players owning more than 9 houses pay an extra cost when warping to houses.
• The maximum house price is $400,000,000 and a house sale counts toward both players' transfer limits.
• Marriage partner houses are added to the custom spawn list when respawning.
• House owner activity level drops by 1 point every inactive hour and goes up by 1 point for every online minute.
• House GUI fields, include house name, owner, prices, owner activity level, sale status, interior ID, open status, and basement status.
• Everyone inside an apartment can hear the apartment radio.
• /apkick <name> alias for kicking a player from your apartment, alongside /apartmentkick <name>.
• House purchase with bank money if cash is not enough and that players cannot exit a house if hurt in the last 10 seconds.

Finding houses for sale

Use /bliphouses to locate nearby properties for sale. It can also be opened from the CITPhone.

House search, items, and abandoning

House Search zone filters include:

• All
• Los Santos
• San Fierro
• Las Venturas

Unowned house prices drop every:

• 1 minute

To abandon a house without keeping it against your ownership limit:

• set the house for sale at $1

House item controls:

• Add items is disabled
• visible controls let you take items from your house

Related commands

Command	Use
/sleep	Use it inside a house to sleep and regain health.

See also

• Apartment
• CITy Zone
• F7 Trading
• Donator Level
• VIP
• Food
• CIT Commands