Celestine house

The Celestine family house, located at 514 Marion Ave. in Big Rapids, MI, is a location of note in the Sims 4 comic Blood Over Water. It also features as a download in The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff.

History
This ranch-style house was first built in 1960, and was last sold in December of 2019 - before being adapted to The Sims 4. Its market value as of November 2021 is roughly $106,300.

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This house was first built in 1960. Like most homes in the area, it used a forced air natural gas heating system. It rests on a quarter-acre of land, and has 994 sq ft. of living space inside the house on the first floor. It's 2021 estimated home value is about $107,100; though it sold on December 17th of 2019 to a family for about $82,000.

Blood Over Water
While also never significant during the actual Ferris State study years, this home retroactively became the Celestine family's home for the webcomic version of Blood Over Water. This is because the Celestines needed to live somewhere in town, in order for Aaron, Erin, Candi, Miriam, and Marina to have visited with them. The floor plans were immediately available online, making the house easy to adapt.

The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff
As a nod to this fact, the house was made available for download for a custom Sims 4 stuff pack released in 2020. Due to its basement requiring custom elements not possible at the time in The Sims 4, this version of the house omits the basement entirely.

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Wanda Celestine and her husband moved here from the Nashville area at some point before the main events in Blood Over Water, and lived here for many years. But after he died of pancreatic cancer, Wanda began preparing herself to sell the house and move back to Nashville. Shortly before she began putting this house on the market, her daughter Meredith met her future husband: Aaron Stefflin, while taking music industry management classes at Ferris State.

Due to previous 4H involvement in the past, Erin Flippo became a good friend of the Celestines. She brought her three younger triplet sisters, whom she had partial custody of, along with her in 2009 to assist the Celestines with moving out: Candi, Miriam, and Marina.

Rumors of Flippos in the area, however, led to the Hebbleskins examining the neighborhood some time later. On top of this, the Hebbleskins lent firepower to Gleeful-N'-Young, as they were planning to buy out the human trafficking cartel. They decided to make the most of their trip to Big Rapids to gather as many new victims for Clyde's ring as possible.

The home's new owners were soon killed during a series of raids on the town in the evening. The fate of this house after that remains unknown.

Specs

 * Lot size: 0.25 acres
 * House area: 994 sq ft.
 * Estimated market value: $107,100

Nearby early education

 * Riverview Elementary School
 * Mecosta-Osceola Education Center School
 * St. Peter Lutheran Private School
 * St. Mary Catholic Private School
 * Big Rapids Middle School
 * Crossroads Charter Academy

Nearby later education

 * Crossroads Charter Academy
 * Big Rapids Middle School
 * Big Rapids High School
 * Mecosta-Osceola Education Center School
 * Ferris State University

Nearby grocers

 * Meijer
 * Wal-Mart
 * Aldi
 * Johnny's Markets
 * Dollar Tree
 * Big Rapids EZ Mart
 * Kilwins of Big Rapids
 * Old Pioneer Store and Emporium
 * Family Dollar
 * Red Fox Market
 * Eastside Market
 * The Market at Ferris State

Nearby fast food

 * Culver's
 * Jimmy John's
 * Arby's
 * Qdoba
 * KFC
 * Long John Silver's
 * Domino's
 * Burger King
 * Little Caesar's
 * Taco Bell
 * Wendy's
 * McDonald's
 * Fatty C's Doghouse
 * A&W
 * Subway
 * State Street Scoops
 * Pizza Hut
 * Nawals's Mediterranean Grille

Nearby insurance firms

 * Farm Bureau Insurance
 * Farmers Insurance
 * Bleeker Insurance Services
 * Bush Insurance Agency
 * Red Insurance
 * Schuberg Insurance
 * Bridge Title Agency
 * Daum-Meemic
 * Big Rapids Insurance
 * AAA
 * Wenger Insurance

Nearby gas stations

 * Meijer
 * Wesco
 * Marathon
 * Admiral
 * BP
 * Sunoco

Nearby pharmacies

 * Meijer
 * Wal-Mart
 * Walgreens
 * Rite Aid
 * HomeTown Pharmacy
 * Family Dollar

Area crime rate
Note: All data listed here is from 2019, given 2020-released FBI statistics. These are only the incidents actually submitted to the FBI after screening by local police reports, and not indicative of all possible incidents that went unreported.


 * Murder: 0
 * Rape: 6 (57.8 per capita)
 * Robbery: 0
 * Assault: 20 (192.5 per capita)
 * Burglary: 18 (173.3 per capita)
 * Standard theft: 114 (1,097.3 per capita)
 * Vehicular theft: 3 (28.9 per capita)

The most dangerous region of town in our Earth number appears to be Locust St., near the Spectrum Health Hospital.

The Celestines' house in Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff
Much of the home's interior in The Sims 4 is guesswork, based on the limited information provided online. Sloping and other issues made the yard difficult to landscape. On top of this, there was no good way to align the house for the stairway to the basement. Since the basement is never relevant to the plot of Blood Over Water anyway, the basement has been omitted from this build.

Since this build was made, ladders were introduced to The Sims 4. Players may be able to use a ladder in the place of stairs to create an approximation of the basement, using sites like Realtor.com for reference photos.