Am I wrong in that assumption? There's an achievement for buying three plots of land, and one for building three houses. I can do neither of these because, apparently, I decided to join the Stormcloaks some 200 hours ago.

I can't become a thane or purchase property in Falkreath either because the steward of the previous Jarl was murdered by my hand because one of the writers told me to do it. Or because the new paranoid joke of a Jarl simply doesn't trust me, yet I'm given no way of earning that trust.

Either way... it would seem as though I'm screwed out of buying that third plot, earning two achievements, and building the house that I was going to use to display all of my collected gear because I was stupid and already built the other two houses and even though the game tells me I'm able to change my mind and rebuild things later, I can't do that either.

Thanks guys!

One of my guys is a stormcloak assassin, and I had no trouble buying falkreaths land. Did you finish the civil war questline? The new jarls steward is a lady, can't remember her name.

You didn't kill Siddgeir's steward, you killed his Housecarl. Tekla is Dengeir's steward.

Strange I've completed the storm cloak quests yet I have a house in falkreath.

Tekla will not give me the ability to purchase land. Every once in a while, she'll give me a job. But it's always to kill the same Dragon at Ancient's Ascent, or to kill the same bandit leader at some other location. I've completed both of those jobs at least twice now.

I also find this odd, my stormcloak nord is the listener, and I haven't had any problem with this at all.

I think it is funny this guy blames the writers for the quests he finished.

Why is it funny? If I miss out on something hours later because somebody thought it would be a good idea to tie it to something that was supposed to happen in the game earlier, how is that not the decision of the person who decided to create the game that way?

It's simple. This person writes a story element that tells you to do something, and then hours later, it's causes some kind of bug or otherwise unintended glitch in a quest that allows the game to block you from achieving later goals.

And that's somehow meant to be my fault for completing a quest? Maybe there should have been a "don't complete this quest if you want the possibility to interact with this otherwise useless character because he might be involved in a quest at some later time when new content is introduced" warning.

That was sarcasm, by the way...

EDIT: And I was able to fix the problem by reloading a previous save from 20 hours before. Roughly an hour or so before I ever started Hearthfire.

I then fast-traveled to Falkreath. I was hoping that the farmer of Corpselight farm would still be alive, but no dice. I wanted to see if she would give me a quest to farm cabbages. But apparently, I didn't have a save old enough to save her from that Legendary Dragon that raided the town.

At any rate, the Courier approached me as I was getting ready to reload a different save, and he gave me three letters this time, instead of the two that he gave me the first time I played this DLC. As luck would have it, one of them involved purchasing land in Falkreath. My guess is that receiving this letter forced the land to become available in Falkreath, as the absence of the letter resulted in the absence of real-estate availability before.

It's kind of annoying that I never received a letter to purchase any land the first time I played, but I was stil able to purchase two of the three. But I got it fixed, while losing multiple hours of progress. It matters little though. I got the house I wanted.

falkreath has an issue
i am thane there
and on One of the three characters that a did the dlc with
i could NOT get the falkreath house
not a clue why it did not work on that one

and sad as falkreath is the best location

they should have done 1 house only
and given us battlehorn castle from oblivion!1 just update it!1

I installed Hearthfire after the Civil War quests. You do have to become thane again if the Jarl changed. Had no problem getting all 3 houses.

The problem stems from killing the Imperial's Jarl's housecarl. If you sided with the stormclocks, then Denegir should be in your favor and you can easily purchase the land from her old lady maid steward.

I had to join the stormcloaks to fix this problem. You will become Thane again when you speak to Denegir and you will receive your housecarl. Don't know what your problem was, but it is completely reverse to everyone else not being able to purchase the land.