Main strategy involves stealing and spellcasters. I didn't see any bans for clubs or spellcasters, I hope I didn't break any rules.
A) I would steal all the most expensive stuff townies had in their homes (like the $15,000 violin, $10,000 computers, $8200 knights) every 8 hours - both sims stealing.
B) During the 8 hours downtime, one sim concentrate on leveling spellcasting while the other sim throws party (did easy parties for the first few days).
C) By day 3 my spellcaster sim finally got "copypasto", so both sims took vacation to the jungle museum to steal the gold plate $8,000 - this item goes into personal inventory. Make sure spellcaster sim have the point in practical magic always succeed while in neutral state - then start copypasto the gold plate. Money was never a problem from this time onwards, I could afford anything.
D) The rest of the days were just plenty sleeping and then throwing one unique party a day -- was quite boring for me since after the party I had my sims just sleep and sleep and sleep to go to next day.
These are the 15 locations I stayed in:
San Sequoia -- Sequoia Cottage
Brindleton Bay -- Ragdoll Refurb
Willow Creek -- Brook Bungalow
Willow Creek -- Parkshore
Strangerville -- Plateau Place
Henford -- 3 Olde Mill Lane
San Myshuno -- The Old Salt House
Oasis Spring -- Granada Place
Windenburg -- Pier Palace
Willow Creek -- Umbrage Manor
Oasis Spring -- Rio Verde
Brindleton Bay -- Hound's Head
Willow Creek -- Oakenstead
Del Sol Valley -- Chateau Peak
Oasis Spring -- Yuma Heights
14 Parties Thrown:
Potluck
Baby Shower
Birthday
Pool Party
Keg Party
Slumber
Wedding
Weenie Roast
House Party
Dinner Party
Incognito Costume
Black and White
Family Reunion
Spooky Party
Spooky party is the only party I didn't gold, in fact I didn't even get bronze. Could not find pumpkin carving station in any place and since we can't buy anything in build mode to put in house, this party was thrown just so I get the multiplier for 14 unique party thrown. The rest of the parties got gold but some don't even give any rewards (like Family Reunion). If anyone have any questions on how to gold the parties, let me know I can help.