if u wanna earn some hard cash before you go and do quests heres the thing
ok heres what you do you get at least 5000 gold run directly to oakvale if u want you can kill the creatures on the way for exp.
when ur in oakvale buy the house upgrade it and rent it out after you rent it go to the house at the beacht where the ghost lives.
go sleep in the house for 5 whole days then go back to collect the rent do that a couple of times till you got like 10.000 gold
then heres the master trick go sleep till its night and when its night people will come back from the pubb and go home to sleep go to their houses make them follow you run to the bridge of oakvale and kill them after you killed them the following message appears in your screen "A NEW BUILDING HAS BECOME AVAILABLE FOR SALE" buy the building and rent it out to do this untill you own the whole town and after u own the whole town u can collect about 12000 gold rent each 3 days and if u wanna get real rich try the same trick in all cities ( small tip dont do it in bowerstone cuzz u dotn have weapons!!!!) if u own everything in fable ur the richest man alive

i did it myself to and it works like a charm i had master longsword and master longbow before i even begun the quests