Im playing Skyrim on PS3 and bought every property available in the hearthfire expansion. I have one fully decked out manor near Solitude and one south of DawnStar livable but according to General Stats (pause menu) I only own one house; the Than Breezehome house in Whiterun. I even got the Land Owner trophy for buying all properties. The Manor east of Solitude has bedrooms and all but I am not getting the dialog option when I speak with my adopted daughter to move to any property.
According to the article on owned houses in Skyrim, the Hearthfire plots do not count towards the number of houses owned in the game statistics. This is probably because when you buy the property, it is technically not a house, just land. It is not listed as a bug, so it should be considered normal behavior. Whether this can be "fixed" or not on a gaming console depends on the software developers.
However, your basic question, "Why can't I move my children into a Hearthfire home?" is a duplicate. See this answer here. In particular, you need to build two children's beds and two children's chests, even when you only have one child, and you need extra beds for your house carl or steward. If you don't have enough beds in a particular player-built manor it won't appear as an option.
So far it sounds pretty good. I haven't tried it yet, I figure I'll wait for an apparent bug to get fixed along with Dawnguard being added to this mod. Not to mention that this also allows you to use the Hearthfire planters with ingredients from Dawnguard and Dragonborn which I don't know why weren't added officially. It also lets me take a mod off my mod list, which is nice.
I installed this a few days ago to give it a try and I am part way through building Lakeview Manor, so far nothing nasty has jumped out and bit me but yeah gods Hearthfire is dull compared to the better house mods.
I just found out for those that are testing this mod, you should create a LOOT rule for ELE_Legendary_Lite.esp to load after hearthfireextended.esp or you will not get ELE's lighting edits.
ELE is weighted, so it sorts after everything that has a lower weight. Just about every mod is 0, so it sorts after them. I think the only things in STEP with higher weight is STEP Patches, Bashed Patch, SkyProc, and maybe DynDOLOD.
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