User blog comment:The Milkman/The State of Skyrim's Economy/@comment-30303790-20121125212139/@comment-3492791-20121126064359

Not a bad idea. Running your own town could make for an interesting project. Perhaps you start repairing the town, then you start inviting some people to live there, they make shops and homes in your newly renovated buildings, they pay you some sort of property tax, which you have to use part of to pay your "city tax" to the Jarl of Falkreath. The town gets occasionally attacked by these elusive "bandit raids" guards keep taking about, so you have to hire guards (and maybe even a constant salary?). Civil disputes, theives, etc etc. Use the keep as a guard barracks, maybe even section part of it as your home. It could be a whole thing. I'm sure I'll think of more, but i'll save this for Milkman's inevitable "Helgen Home" blog...maybe i'll write it myself...