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.