User blog comment:Zelron/Helgen Hometown (Dragons bring down my property values!)/@comment-5790858-20121129042643/@comment-3492791-20121129044110

No no no no no no no no no. I went over this in the blog. You should NEVER have prerequisite quest to be able to play a DLC. It's simply asinine. Having to complete an entire questline before you're allowed to use the content you've payed for, that is not at all acceptable. I only suggested that you had to be Thane, not necessarily because it's about the title or your standing in the community, but that it creates an incbetween step. It wouldn't be good if the second you walk out of Helgen you could go strait to Falkeath and buy it.

Also as mentioned, you aren't buying a town, you're buying a flame pile of rubble that used to be one. The Jarl has no way of knowing what you'll do with it, but he has no intention of doing anything about it, so why not take some fools money and let them solve your problems for you. He may come to regret this decision later after you've become a rouge city-state, but they had no way of predicting that would happen, especially Siddgeir who is one of those spoiled rich kids who just doesn't give a fuck.