I am unaware of any way to acquire a house other than by killing the occupants and claiming it as your own. What is this other method you speak of?
?....?....?....! Wait a minute, are you refering to bloodmoon?
[Edited by Velkeem, 7/30/2007 5:38:22 AM]
oh yea i forgot about the house that the skaal give you. but you can also have your own estate built if you do the whole east empire company thing on the bloodmoon island.
and if you dont have goty, you can still have a stronghold built for you by getting high rank in any of the great houses.(i recomend great house televani)