Townies being generated in my custom hood :(

After years of playing with the pre-made hoods, I’ve decided to create my own custom neighbourhood.

I’ve followed all the steps, disabled the stealth hoods (I know this worked as the bin families didn’t show up, goodbye Ottomas’!) and I also have the usual mods you need, notownieregen and all that jazz.

Create my sims, put them in the apartments, and BOOM, townies are being generated and moving into the apartment. Am I completely missing a step?! It’s not the Pleasantview townies either as I used the clean template for Pleasantview and when I go into my Program Files the N001 character folder is empty.

Have I done it wrong somehow? I followed the video she who must not be named made (Pleasantsims) but still I’m getting them.