Some questions can be found in the first post of the IC thread.
A house on the first floor costs 100.000 col. You can't get this amount that soon so I suggest you just sleep in inn's until quests pay better.
You can gain XP from quests but we don't allow anyone to be too over-leveled. The maximum for the first floor is 15 (which is hard to gain). The second floor will have a limit of 20.
You need recipes and those can be found in stores. I already answered this question in the OOC thread.
Your crafting level always starts with level one. In the beginning gaining levels will be easy but this will get harder over time.
I would appreciate it if you gave me time to answer questions if you give me a lot of them. Today is my first free day from college and I hadn't time to even post. I will be able to get time to post and such from next week on.