My reputation in this town is at a all time low -60 yet I have never been here and talking to people cost me 300+ which i believe is about a years wage, for most in this game . no matter how good I am it does not improve. I’m not a thief, I do pouch but that on the other side of the map.
Same problem. I even had -100. There are lot of bugs. This is probably bug.
The easy fix is to go punch a guard, immediately surrender and do your jail time.
Really I thought doing that would kill your rep yell I will give it a try
If youve done any crimes in the country side and seen you will get negatuve rep. Pickpocketing, and lockpicking. Msybe you had to blow off some steam and beat someone to death?
It lowers your rep, but if your rep is already trashed, doing your jail sentence actually brings it back up to where most people will talk to you again.