So I'm halfway on the road now to buy Rosethorn.

I just need some more cash, and I'm running out of quests to do.

So any good locations to raid for some decent income?


All ideas are accepted. =)

Abandoned mine, join a guild, if you've got any doc there's plenty of stuff to sell from those haha. Basically mines are hotspots for stuff to sell

Lots of things you can do... have a look at the wiki page on http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Making_Money

I reckon the 2 most common moneymaking schemes are brewing mass quantities of potions, and raiding Bandit dungeons.

Personal favourites are Forts Alessia and Homestead for marauder warlords, Crayfish and Greenmead caves for the sheer amount of chests, Sercen is very small but has a bandit leader, Barren Cave and Nornalhorst have two vampire matriarch/patriarchs, and I know it's just blind chance, but somehow I always seem to find something good ( including great alchemy gear ) in Belda, but that's not guaranteed.

I think the biggest moneymaker relatively early in the game is to do the Order of the Virtuous Blood, then go out vampire hunting. Vampire dust sold to Roland is probably about the most profitable thing in the game, at least until the higher level armor/weapons/potions/scrolls start showing up.

My characters usually buy their houses by selling potions. You can buy ingredients in each town, make your potions and sell them to buy more ingredients to make more potions to sell, then fast travel to the next town and doing that again. Making a circuit of all the towns and buying ingredients from all the vendors will give you a lot of golds rather rapidly. Picking your own ingredients is also an option but is more time consuming. Alchemy skills are raised very rapidly this way and you are soon able to create a potion using only a single ingredient and they are of a better quality. It is a system any new character can safely use to make a lot of golds fairly rapidly.

Other characters might want to bolster their armour and fighting skills by raiding Rockmilk Cave and the like, and selling the loot from dead bandits, necromancers, and marauders, etc. Making the circuit as each respawns gives an endless supply of loot while improving stats.

Or, you could do both. They both offer unlimited opportunity to make golds from public service. Some quests like the 'Black Bow Bandits' and 'Order of the Virtuous Blood' can raise your income by increasing the price for particular items when sold to the quest giver. Most quest are not that profitable monetarily speaking.

A personal favorite bandit cave of mine is Rockmilk cave just south of Bravil on the road the Leyawiin. There is a Black Bow Bandit and marauder war going on inside and there are plenty of people to take armor and weapons from. Also if you have done the quest for the count of Leyawiin that involves the Black Bow Bandits you can turn in black bows to the count from some decent gold more than you would get from a shop.

EDIT: Oops didn't see the above post that says pretty much the same thing and more. That's what I get for not reading all the posts haha.