I'm hoping someone here can help me, or has any knowledge of this glitch. I'm using Windows 7 on my laptop to play. The second family down from the top on the list of players has a problem. I got to the place where they could reno the second bedroom and second bath. When I purchased the renovations, there was what I would call a "hiccup", the workers appeared for just an instant at the door of the house, sort of flickered, then were gone. But the bath and bedroom were there, so I kept playing. But from that time through now, a generation later, the rooms, the hall outside of it, and the stairs leading to the next floor are all "sticky" dead zones. Over time socks have appeared, we now have 6 socks & 3 wrappers accumulated. My peeps bend, pick them up, then have total confusion over what to do next. They can't escape the area, they're just stuck, although sometimes if they are in the hall, they will go through the dirty room yet to be done to the bathroom and do something there. Once they are done, they are stuck again. I did have a dirty spot show up recently in the hall outside the bathroom, but when I placed a peep on it, she was able to clean it up. The she was confused until I picked her up out of there. I'm getting lots of complaints from the peeps about the house being a mess, so they do notice the socks, etc there. But, if a peep is there, they don't notice when a new thing is placed in the house in the areas that are unaffected. I've also noticed that the peeps will wander into these sticky areas on their own between when I have their game open. So when I open the game, the poor peep is just standing there, waiting to be rescued.
As this is the only family that's having the problem, I'm not sure what's going on. The only thing I can think of is to delete this family and start over. I'd just hate to play the game this far again and find the same problem waiting for me, lol! Anyone have any thoughts?