Almost a year and a half after Housing was introduced I've finally decided to buy a house. Initially I will only use it to place the storage chests but in the longer run I will also furnish it, though I've not yet set a timetable on that. I've only acquired the 5 free inn rooms thus far, but those don't support collectibles so are pretty useless, bar transfer point. I'm looking to buy one of the large homes, priced between 750K-1.3M, since they have sufficient slots - 8 for collectibles so I can place all chests - but also most of them are not large enough to look overly empty when the furnishing limit is reached, like it happens to some of the manors.
The ones I like most are: Alinor Crest Townhouse, Old Mistveil Manor, Amaya Lake Lodge and Strident Springs Demesne, chiefly for their overall aspect and location. The first two are located in or near towns with efficient writ pathways - I actually base my characters in Riften, and use the public crafting tables there, and the pathway in Alinor also looks pretty efficient, though the character loading time is longer due to more complex assets. The last two have more outdoor real estate and beautiful setting but they are located quite far from main cities. The others from the same category I dismissed initially because I either found the style quite ugly - Stay-Moist Mansion, The Gorinir Estate, Forsaken Stronghold, Coldharbour Surreal Estate - or they seemed to crammed - Gardner House (Wayrest is also very inefficient writ wise, so I could have dismissed it by that reason alone) - or nice but too remote and not having anything special to redeem them - Quondam Indorilia, Dawnshadow, Mathiisen Manor, Hunding's Palatial Hall; everyone seems to have bought the latter but I don't like it since it already slides in that "full but still look empty" part of the spectrum.
So which one do you consider more advantageous in the long run? Did I overlook something? Are there any less obvious advantages in those that I dismissed?
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