well, i guess it would be count or countess

not for some of those houses, some you also have to buy the furniture

also there is a duplication glitch that will make it easy to sell items for a lot of money, all you have to do is have arrows equipped (preferrably a large number), then swing your sword and hit "B" mid swing, then you click your arrows twice in the inventory and drop whatever item you want duplicated, this will drop the item and the amount of arrows you have determines the number of items dropped on the ground

note:this doesn't seem to work on magical weapons or armor 

that was supposed to be "frostcrag spire"

1. if u beat the arena, you can have that fan follow u around, he'll at least carry a torch, but otherwise he's not much help

2.buy a house, or if you have oxm (official xbox magazine), then use demo disc 67 to get froscrag spire for free and u can use that as a house

3.just go with the other guys answer because i dont know