Thank you, Lyssaria. I am running version 1.00.05. I got the game from LDW. My computer date/time is correct. Of course, the tech may have reset it when he was done repairing the computer if it was incorrect.
All my houses were very messy when I returned to them last night. Lots of wrappers, socks and dirt smudges, and of course the lawns were full of weeds. It took awhile to clean some of them up, as one family had 4 members and the rest were all less. In fact, since I knew it would take the one lady awhile, I married her off to the next guy who proposed, so then hubby could help too. And one couple were elderly and moving quite slowly and all the kids were gone off to college, so I left the mess until they died and let the next generation clean it up, lol.