| Every house gives you a brief quest. You ask the appropriate person in each city to "buy a house in town", and if you cough up the gold, the quest adds to your active quests. Usually, in order to complete the quest, you just buy all the relevant house fixin's from the local general merchant. Once you buy the last one, the quest finishes.
For the Skingrad mansion: I don't recall the maid being part of the house quest. I was running along down the street near my Skingrad home, when a passerby NPC said "Excuse me?". I'd never heard anyone say that before, so I stopped and went back to her. When I spoke to her, she said that she heard I'd just bought the place and did I need a maid? After I hired her, I talked to her a few times, but no other quests came out of it. She does give you a shepperd's pie and beer whenever you ask, but that's about it. |