Fallout 3 player character housing

Non-ownable housing
Houses below are not technically ownable, but you can live at these sites.

Requirements

 * Bed
 * At least one safe container (ie: items put inside won't be wiped out when the container respawns it's loot)

Bonus

 * A place that isn't a respawn point for enemies
 * Workbench
 * Convenient location
 * Interesting decor and/or loot
 * Items don't disappear when "dropped"
 * Enclosed area (At least one wall)

Pros & Cons

 * The location of the High Plains Drifter and his sniper rifle.
 * The bed is makeshift and sloppy.

Abandoned Tent
Directly South of SatCom Array NN-03d

Pros & Cons

 * No immediate enemies or spawn points.
 * Good north-central location.
 * Minor loot.
 * Multiple Storage containers.
 * Place some Frag Mines if you need some protection in case of an attack.

Super-Duper Mart
Main

Pros & Cons


 * Plenty of beds and storage (In Pharmacy)
 * Raider Decorations
 * Approx. 15 raiders to kill before claiming
 * Near Megaton
 * Good Central Location
 * A Protectotron to guard your belongings and stuff (If you take the id badge and hack the computer in the pharmacy.

Pros & Cons

 * Plenty of Beds and Storage
 * Many Super Mutant Brutes and Super Mutants surround the area
 * Almost impossible to get in or out without a fight
 * Good Central Location

Pros & Cons

 * It's a vault
 * Only livable/returnable if you destroy the vault
 * Plethora of beds
 * Overseer's Office with working tunnel
 * There is a storage room with many crates
 * The vault is a bit trashed with papers and a few bodies
 * Vault door CANNOT ever be closed

Pros & Cons

 * Choice of three houses
 * Once "Those!" quest completed, no enemies spawn in Grayditch
 * Central location
 * Plenty of beds and storage
 * Dr. Lesko as a neighbour, unless you killed him

Pros & Cons

 * Located in the center of a creepy graveyard
 * Shrine to Abraham Lincoln
 * Robert E. Lee's old house
 * comes with a safe, a workbench, and Bobblehead - Luck

Pros & Cons

 * Great view
 * Small
 * No enemies
 * Guarded gate
 * Outside full of Super Mutants
 * Although inside it may be safe, outside by the entrance it's dangerous for low level characters since a few super mutants may spawn by the entrance and super mutant brutes will be in the field and may start shooting at you off sight.
 * If you have Broken Steel and sided with the Brotherhood, this is a great place/opportunity to get Super Mutant blood samples

Pros & Cons

 * Lots of storage rooms
 * Guarded like it's still the frickin' pentagon
 * Private armory
 * A lab that doesn't really do anything
 * A clinic with a healing robot (Unless you haven't fixed Sawbones yet)
 * Courtyard with target practice (Includes the other BoS)

Pros & Cons

 * Often attacked by raiders, but provides some experience and raider gear.
 * Extra storage boxes on the military truck near the entrance.
 * Military truck is some-what considered a good "bomb" to detonate (shooting it)to defeat spawning raiders.
 * If you kill the scavenger without the dog noticing, you'll get yourself a free watchdog!

Abandoned House
Found in the Northeast corner of the Fairfax Ruins directly across from a playground.

Pros & Cons

 * Mines at entrance and in back room
 * There is a raider armed with a rocket lanucher and a defence turrett on the second floor of the building.
 * Sometimes passed by small enclave patrols after The Waters of Life is completed.
 * Good defendable position with second floor and narrow stairwell
 * Back door for escape or easy movement
 * Multiple Storage Containers

Bombed Out Church
In the middle of the plain East of Evergreen Mills. Just SOUTHWEST of the Jury Street Metro Station.

Pros & Cons

 * Easy to Locate on large open plain
 * Three beds
 * No Storage!
 * Often Occupied by Raiders
 * Rigged shotgun at Southeast entrance
 * Minor loot
 * Sink and Toilet for regaining health
 * Plenty of good cover
 * Good central location

Talon Company Outpost
Directly South of Arlington Library. Almost near map edge.

Pros & Cons

 * Bed, storage, a working sink, radio, pool table and workbench
 * Great location near Point Lookout
 * No word on respawn or item disappearance
 * Littered with corpses and a dead Sentry Bot
 * Kind of out in the open
 * Surrounded by Mercs
 * Some of the surrounding area is mined

Pros & Cons

 * Storage, a "Free Bed" and workbench
 * Must have level 75 Lockpick or fight through some Protectrons and Turrets to get to the room
 * Via elevator: seems secure with multiple heavy doors
 * Via Coffee Machine: super cool secret entrance is revealed by "activating" the cofee machine (see video on Talk page of the Mechanist)
 * Bed is Queen Sized
 * Lots of custom weapon components
 * Items may disappear from storage
 * Sometimes, if the player moves an object in the room, the dead protectron in the room may fly all over the place and knock over objects

Pros & Cons

 * Lots of storage, a "Free Bed" and workbench
 * Adjoined armory is already "decorated" with tons of Ammunition Boxes, a Minigun, a Missile Launcher, 10mm SMGs, Assault Rifles, grenades and mines
 * The Glowing One carcass can be used as a night light
 * The player must clear out a good deal of Sentry Bots, Turrets, Mr. Gutsyies, and Protectrons before "settling down".
 * Armory looks really cool
 * Bunker is kinda dirty with some skeletons sharing your bed but you can remove them and put them in the ground.
 * Comes with an Experimental MIRV!!!
 * Seems very secure with multiple heavy doors that can be closed behind you should you choose to sleep
 * No word yet on storage items disappearing

Pros & Cons

 * Well Hidden in the Mountains
 * Populated by two wastelanders
 * If killed without the dog noticing you get yourself a free watchdog
 * Minor Loot
 * Edge of map/Bad traveling location

Pros & Cons

 * A random enounter point which sends Yao Guai or Enclave Soldiers
 * Not recommended for lower level players
 * Non-Central Location
 * Multiple Storage containers
 * Minor Loot

Pros & Cons

 * Lots of storage
 * Has an armory
 * Has a simulation pod you cannot enter
 * Guarded by outcasts and turrets
 * Anytime you are at the top of the ramp going down, super mutants spawn
 * Followers cannot enter the bunker
 * The floor will be messy with blood (the fight between Sibley and McGraw) unless you were careful

Pros & Cons

 * There is a lab with a baby (unless you sided with Werner)
 * There is a non-owned bed on the second floor (Needs confirmation)
 * Heavily fortified with raiders

The Pitt Underground
 * Has an easy entrance through Uptown
 * Only should be used if the player chose the Slavers' side
 * Only one Toolbox for storage
 * Has a couch

Pros & Cons

 * Has several beds
 * Glowing one downstairs can be used as a nightlight
 * Aqua Pura Crates for storage
 * Ghoul bodies are very hard to move around and/or hide
 * You gain 1 Rad per sec. when entering

Blackhall Manor
Pros & Cons
 * Has several beds.
 * It has alot of trash lying around to clear out.
 * Most of this trash is quite valuable back in the Capitol Wasteland, and for any character who wants to lounge in immaculate pre-war dress.
 * Has ALOT of containers.
 * Very Large.
 * Has big kitchen,library,3 bedrooms,big bathroom,poolroom.

Lighthouse/Lab
Pros & Cons
 * Two entrances
 * Lots of ammo/weapons
 * Lots of beds/containers
 * Tall lighthouse perch
 * Smugglers Respawn in lighthouse
 * Before quest compeltion, secret entrance is locked
 * After quest completion, door between secret entrance/lab and bed area is permalocked, forcing you to enter through the smuggler infested lighthouse.