Putting this here so the solution is available for future finding...

(from 2020) I am trying to test my new hotels, but there is some kind of glitch happening. As soon as my test sim walks onto the lot, I get these popups:

And there's nothing the sim can do but go straight home again.

Weirdly, I started up Twikkii and made a teeny hotel with one room and a concierge desk. That one works fine, both in Twikkii and in the primary hood where I want to test things. But the fancy lots created in my fake subhood will _not _behave.

I made them work in Twikkii eventually, dropping them in as fresh community lots and changing to hotels, in one case twice. But transferring them back to the primary hood broke them again. :( I'm not sure what else to try...

...Hooray! The very helpful Chris Hatch found me a solution.

His LotCleaner object removed the stuck controllers, and now the hotels work as they should. So relieved not to have to rebuild, and I can continue creating without worrying that the fake subhood process is breaking lots. Much happier.