How do I earn money?

[e11]

I'm at level 23 and my purse seems to be stuck at around 2000 caps. I want to buy a house but that would leave me dead broke. I feel I should have more money by this point. Any money-making tips?

[Jedron215]

why would you BUY a house when you can Make one to your liking in any settlement?

[Moldavia]

Need to find the vendors and sell your unwanted stuff to them. Selling excessive ammo types you are not using is an easy way to make caps. I have a level 12 character with over 5k caps not sure why you are so low. If you have more stuff to sell than the person has caps buy their stimpaks or other items you might want and play with the buy/sell until they have no caps then accept the trade. I have never had a problem with caps in any fallout game. It is harder to do this at the beginning of the game but still viable all the same.

[Kasane Randell MFer]

Originally posted by Jedron215:

why would you BUY a house when you can Make one to your liking in any settlement?

maybe he doesn't want to make a home?

Also, you will have to build up the house anyways, it's a waste. if you REALLY want a house, and a new companion, for free go to vault 81. You'll get 2 quests from them.

Also, sell stuff you don't use, or don't use a whole lot, like chems, ammo, weapons, armor, junk, misc items, and foods/meats.

If you are working on settlements, set up shops, they give you income based on the shop level (I think), and sell the foods/water also.

[CrackeR]

Press tilde key ..the key to the left of number 1 then type
player.additem 0000000f 2000 press emter ..... then UP arrow.....press enter as many times as you want lol

[EdmeXIII (Alex)]

In addition to what LewisLemitar2 said, the size of the shop does affect how many caps they have to buy stuff with. But if you choose the "invest" option with any shop, that'll permanently increase (by 500 caps) the amount of caps any shop of that type has to buy stuff with.

[e11]

Originally posted by Moldavia:

Need to find the vendors and sell your unwanted stuff to them. Selling excessive ammo types you are not using is an easy way to make caps. I have a level 12 character with over 5k caps not sure why you are so low.

Well, I guess it's because I tend to be pretty overloaded with different kinds of guns for different situations, which doesn't allow me to carry all that much loot.

[Crimsomrider]

Originally posted by Prince Rahl:

I didn't know we could buy houses in Fallout 4. Where can we do this?

Diamond City - Talk to Mayor's secretary.

[e11]

Originally posted by Prince Rahl:

I didn't know we could buy houses in Fallout 4. Where can we do this?

Talk to the mayor's secretary in Diamond City.

[Sedan Hussein]

Originally posted by Prince Rahl:

I didn't know we could buy houses in Fallout 4. Where can we do this?

Diamond City talk to Geneva its called the Home Plate

[AshenHollow]

Originally posted by Prince Rahl:

I didn't know we could buy houses in Fallout 4. Where can we do this?

There is one in diamond city's r 2000 caps, and each faction has their own house. Castle for Minutemen, institute for institute, RR has safe houses and BoS is the prydwen

[Dominic]

Originally posted by Asar si Mar:

Originally posted by Prince Rahl:

I didn't know we could buy houses in Fallout 4. Where can we do this?

Diamond City talk to Geneva its called the Home Plate

Thanks also Asar si Mar.

So I guess we can't buy houses plural, there is just one house to be purchased in Diamond City.

[GreaT_Cornholio]

dont forget to make grape mentats as much as possible and use +5 charisma and 10% sell and buy also selling jet is easiest item to make (fertilizer and plastic) so sell that

[42]

I play without Stimpacks and sell 4 per unit for ~ 100 Caps. Also Jet, Buffout, Psycho a.s.o. .

[Frost]

I make money selling weapons, clothing and legendaries I don't want. I have a system where I scrap anything under 100 caps in value and later in the game under 150 caps. I also scrap all the armor I find as this covers me for Steel and Leather.

Also a good source of income is to sell the food you cook and if your not a drug user sell all those as well.

At your level I wouldn't bother with buying Home Plate, I would take over Hangman's Alley which is a short walk from Diamond City and place one of the pre-built houses and send a settler there to farm food for you.

Home Plate is great for displaying your stuff, but since it cannot have a supply line its not that great for much else.

Hope that helps.

[Whalobster]

I earned around 50k caps by doing missions for the Railroad. Not only do they award you with more caps then the other factions, they also give you equipment which you can sell for even more caps.
Gathering, crafting, and selling chems also helps.