Hmm, that's so weird. I bought 3 new ones, completely cleared housing cache, logged off for about 2 hours, rebooted and the 3rd time I tried it took. Maybe I jumped the gun, sorry to get your hopes up but after 2-3pm today until 1am of hell I may have gotten a tad optimistic. The 1st 2 times it did the same old mess, would open menu, place house and then it'd disappear. On the 3rd try it gave me a gump I've never seen before and in my journal I saw it withdraw funds and give me the can't place house msg for a week or however long.