so i got a question. had this one for a while but i just remembered to ask it. what's with this house? it's always empty and the door is always locked. 
I'll second this one. I have like 10 lockpicks, shouldn't I be able to pick the lock and find out if it is in fact empty, is it the Goblin's Secret Weapon (tm), or what?
It is an empty house for possible future use. I suppose the player could have looked inside the window, seen that it was empty and decided not to lockpick it so as not to waste lockpicks!
I left that one closed off in case I ever want to expand the village with some content that requires an actual house. I have some ideas of what to do with it but for now it is actually empty.