Using rooms

Choose how each room in a building is used. Your choice changes how much money comes in.

Recruit residents: Townspeople and shops move in, and you get rent. Rent is the market rate × the rent level (50–200%). A higher level makes rooms harder to fill and makes people leave more easily.
Lease to companies: Rent the room to a company. You set the rent. Companies rent it from “≡” → “Lease to companies” and pay rent every hour.
Use myself: Shops, offices, and the like earn sales (if a company rents it, the sales go to that company).
Your own company office: You can move another company of yours in right away. Choose the room and press “🏢 Make it my company office”. You set the rent (0 X is fine).

Demand and sales depend on population density and busy stations nearby (within 600 m).
The market rent is higher where the land price is higher.
If a tenant falls 3 days behind on rent, that company moves out.
Companies can't move into homes.
In buildings with only 1 room (schools, facilities, factories, etc.), you can press the buttons below without choosing a room.
Rent and similar income goes into “Land (fares, rent, upkeep, usage fees)” in your money records and counts as income.