Money

Money is an important aspect of the game. It is used to buy Tools, Objects, and Paintings. It will also determine where you show up on the house list and attract robbers to your home. (The "value" of your home on the house list is all of your money plus the sell price of the tools in your vault.)

It can be earned in multiple ways:

Each players starts with a $100 bounty on them. Every time they kill a family member or rob a vault, the bounty increases - $500 for each vault robbed and $1000 for each family member killed. You can not see or use your own bounty, although it is possible to keep track of. There is no way to decrease your bounty on a life.
 * Bounties

When a player dies to your home you will receive their bounty in full as usable money, which is a minimum of $100. Bounties for a player do not carry over through lives. If you die you start again at a $100 bounty, even if you died to your own home.

When you rob a house you will obtain any tools and money that are in the vault. If their wife is still alive she may be carrying part of the house's money (although the vault still contains all of the tools). If their wife is dead you will get everything.
 * Robbing

Killing the wife with a Gun, Crowbar, or Club and walking over her body will give you the money that she was carrying, even if you leave the house by the door rather than by reaching the vault. You can mouse over the players wife to check how much money she is carrying.

Tools can be sold off for half of their original price. This allows you to make money from tools people left in your house from dying or tools you found in someone's vault. You cannot sell off house objects or paintings.
 * Selling