Moving from San Diego,Ca to San Antonio, tx

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Originally Posted by ItsTheTruth

Wow, especially as a real estate agent, you should be ashamed of yourself for recommending an unsafe neighborhood to newcomers. That's bordering on negligent. I'm not scared to drive or walk through any neighborhood. Like I said, I have friends in that neighborhood. Look at the Dignowity Hill neighborhood association website. Even residents are complaining about the stray dog problem in that neighborhood.

Also, the OP never mentioned a desire to live in a historic neighborhood, if you could even call Dignowity Hill that. She asked for a nice, safe neighborhood. So you're pushing people into a neighborhood they didn't ask for because of a personal preference?

I don't push people to buy property in Dignowity Hill; as a matter of fact if you go back to my first reply to the OP, I also mentioned other neighborhoods. You chose to latch on to Dignowity Hill. My subsequent posts weren't an attempt to force people to buy property there but, rather, to defend a neighborhood some people like to disparage.

[sshurgot]

Originally Posted by ItsTheTruth

Excuse me? The OP asked for a nice, safe neighborhood. She responded with a slum that she would like to gentrify. That is outright dishonest. I'm the only one here who gave proper advice:

Come check out the city for yourself. Rent for a bit and explore and pick the neighborhood you like.

But it's really nice for you to defend someone in your field.



Admins: Can we get rid of all the real estate agents and mortgage brokers pushing their wares? Regular people come here for objective advice, not for agents looking for clients.

I didn't recommend that the OP PURCHASE a house anywhere; for all I know they want to rent. If they're not going to be here for longer than an assignment it wouldn't be advisable to buy a house they'll have to sell in 3 years.

[sshurgot]

Originally Posted by ItsTheTruth

I didn't tell anyone to not look there. I said that I wouldn't buy there. I can understand why people like living out there (high population of former military, close to SeaWorld) but it is not for me.

About gentrification... coming in and renovating a house just to flip it for profit is not what gentrification is all about. It's about rebuilding the neighborhood, living there, working there... I'm not seeing this. I'm just seeing contractors, house flippers, and real estate agents trying to profit on a cheap, disadvantaged neighborhood.

All the realtors you know must be very different from me. I'm sorry you've had experiences that are making you generalize like that. You see, I haven't sold a single house to a flipper or contractor. I have sold houses in Dignowity AND OTHER historic neighborhoods near downtown. Without exception, the buyers have moved into those homes and live there - quite happily I might add. Look at your definition of rebuilding the neighborhood: I live there, I work there.

Sometimes I sell a house in the disadvantaged neighborhood for $150,000 but there aren't that many of those to sell because people who own them live in them and don't want to move. You're intelligent, so you certainly realize that a real estate agent doesn't profit on cheap houses, on a cheap neighborhood. If I were greedy and my goal were to profit, why would I bother mentioning what you call a disadvantaged neighborhood? There's no money in selling homes where the median selling price is $30,000.

And about those homes, which are often owned by banks, boarded up, vacant for years and deteriorating to be torn down by the city (on your dime), sold at the sheriff's auction because property taxes haven't been paid - isn't it better if someone does fix them up even if they make a few bucks? The people who owned them have already lost them to foreclosure or negligence; it's not like real estate agents take advantage of those people, who have already moved on. I doubt anybody's becoming a millionaire flipping houses on the east side. The houses are magnificent once they're restored, but it takes a lot of work and money to get them there.

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to expand further, I doubt there have been any real sales made from this forum for real estate agents and I don't recall having seen where they are pushing their wares. The administrators generally take care of that. The information that has been provided by the real estate agents on this forum has been very valuable to those seeking information. And I'm not a real estate agent or mortgage broker or flipper or contractor.

[619Silverrex]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

I wouldn't reccomend it because her husband with be working at Boeing. Sure traffic can be bad, but lots of people deal with the traffic, that's why it is so bad! (but let's not turn this into a inside/outside the loop thread).

A good safe bet would be the far west side. New safe family friendly area with lots of close activities near by with Boeining probably being about a 30-35 minute drive.

Hey Ash,

Let me be the first to say that traffic in San Antonio is nothing compared to San Diego traffic, you actually have to plan your day around SD traffic. San Antonio traffic is cake walk

And Caligirl welcome to SA....

Im also a San Diego transplant, been here for 5 years and my impression of SA has been very positive.

Shoot me an email if you have any questions, would be glad to help.

Miguel R.