How to place buildings with baseplates on other baseplates?

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So, I'm starting to work on this LEGO City, but a lot of the buildings I'm using have baseplates at the bottom, and I'm wondering what the best way is to use them with other baseplates, like the road ones. I've seen it done before, with buildings like the Modular Buildings.

[jimmynick]

Notice that the "base" part of a baseplate is 1/2 plate thick - if you put it on top of a layer of bricks that is sideways, it will line up perfectly with a border of bricks that is studs-up. There are plenty of other ways to achieve this alignment, as well.

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Thanks! Although with how I'm using the baseplates they are the very bottom of the construction, but I assume I can just do this with those as well, right?

[jimmynick]

If you have baseplates at the very bottom, you can put tiles below the sideways bricks or use any number of SNOT techniques (brackets, bricks with side studs) to fix those sideways bricks in place.

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Problem.

This works for flat surfaces, but whatever I try with studs on the very bottom, there's always some imbalance.

Help?

[emilstorm]

If it's only for display purpose and not playing, if you put a base plate on top of another baseplate, or any other studed surface, it will align in height with a plate placed on the surface.