If you choose The Lady as the birthsign for a balrog you start off with 75 Str AND 75 endurance.
Seems to be hard advancing in the Sixth House due to lack of intelligence though.
I'm level 5 and I have something like 200K gold to my name. I know where to obtain expensive items with no skills required
That is to say, I robbed the redoran vaults (lots of ebony stuff) and killed a few ordinators (don't you just love the easily exploitable AI in this game?)