Don't Live in These San Antonio Areas 

I live in Helotes and work downtown. My commute is way better than my commute was in Dallas. Traffic in Houston and Austin is much worse. Love living close to the RIM, La Cantera, Medical Center and UTSA. Can’t wait until the construction on 1604/IH10 is done.

Your videos are very informative. Love it.

If you live outside city limits you don’t care about downtown.

Great video! I wish I saw this before I closed. I bought in Castle Hills, TX. A lovely mid century home almost on an acre and swimming pool for 420k ….. Being centralize, near SAT and small town vibe with space between neighbors was important to me. It’s ironic I can walk the streets of Castle Hills it feels like a small town in the South yet We’re right in the middle San Antonio. Lol

I moved to Converse, Tx from Fla and....I've never felt so safe !!

I love Timberwood Park and we built our home in Kinder Ranch. It's perfect, quiet, and we love the short drive to Canyon Lake.

Been in and out of San Antonio since the ‘70s and have lived here full time since 2014. It’s simple. If you look at San Antonio as a clock face, go outside 1604 between 9 and 1 o’clock if you care about safety, schools, resale, rental opportunities, etc. if you can, be outside the city limits for property taxes.

There's an area off Slumber Pass in Timberwood Park where a bunch of new homes are being built right now.

It was very informative

I live in helotes, and we actually have many amenities . We have La Cantera, The RIM, Six Flags, Bandara Point, and more within five minutes of here. Not to mentions that we are 8-10 minutes from the medical center, and 15-20 minutes to downtown. Yet most San Antonians avoid downtown, because the one way streets and parking are horrendous.

1604 E corridor seem to be growing major too. Between Nachodoches and Redland. A lot of new construction 🚧

These places where you shouldn't go look like great places to live.

I lived in Hollywood Park. Nice older and quiet area. Convenient location. Enjoyed living there.

Stone Oak is a traffic disaster

What are your thoughts for Leon Springs/Dominion areas? Thinking about purchasing properties there. Is it easy to have rentals there or better for primary residence there?

These neighborhoods sound amazing!

Man I miss Stone Oak so much! But damn do I love my new house! Couldn't find a new one like this in stone oak :(

Government Hill is right across 35 from New Braunfels Rd. The part of the east side that developers gentrify.

I was presented with an updated 3/2 in Alamo Heights for $435k off-market which would give me a mortgage of around $4000/month... Would you rent that long term? or is that a better area to STR?

They can't build houses fast enough in the Woodlake area on the NE Side of San Antonio, it's county not city so the taxes are cheaper and one of the only few areas that still qualify for the USDA 0.00 down home loans. In addition, housing is popping up everywhere along the 1604/I-10 corridor on the East side for the same reason. The 35 corridor between San Antonio and New Braunfels is exploding in growth with the Tesla plant coming to Cibolo, much more reasonable housing prices, better shopping, easier commutes than almost everything you listed in your video. San Antonio being a wagon wheel layout of major highways, it's pretty easy to get around almost anywhere in this city. Hollywood Park and surrounding areas are mostly 70's homes with older demographics that are now seeing younger families start moving in and many of the houses being flipped and modernized I think your video was pretty cliche on the older communities of San Antonio.

so $4,000 and $5,000 mortgages, so Dr.’s and lawyers basically

Best place to live is a house that’s near to a Costco, Walmart, HEB Plus, Whataburger, Movie Theatre, Olive Garren, Taco Bell, Gas stations, car washes. (A home That is near all of these places, not just one but a home needs to be near all of these places because of the heavy traffic and convenience. LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION! Ppl!!!

If your son is in high school and wants a chance to win the 6A state championships you want to live on the Northwest near Harlan HS. Not to mention their academics are amazing. We chose our house based on this and not everyone does for sure, but we got a new home exactly like the ones being built in Stone Oak (same materials) for half the price.

I like how you named it DONT live their but every one of these neighborhoods is exactly where you would want to live. Could have done the whole video on culebra or the east side and west side. None of this made sense because all these neighborhoods is where even local SA people want to live or get to some day. This vid really didn’t make much sense

I built with Meritage homes in Boerne area. Nice hill country views, about 10 minutes from the RIM. Whoever is thinking about San Antonio don’t! Boerne is the best

Thinking about moving across from the alamodome near labor st .. any reviews ?

As far as property taxes people that are 100% military vets, disabled military vets, don’t have to pay property tax. Yeah, clarify that because a lot of people that moved here to retire don’t know.

Damn..hoa with other HOA's plus city then county tax plus .plus .plus . plus 😫

I’ve been living downtown area since I was born and people suck. Everything starting sucking more once they built the Pearl and bunch of fking apartments. Us that have been living here for years now have to pay all these extra taxes. Ugh

South of Bandera. Just avoid the crime, and stay in the North or Northwest side if you can afford it.

We loved to Alamo Ranch 11 years ago and still love it. Also…when are you going to cover best land and farm land to look be around us?

This city is turning into LA

Hey yall! Need your opinions on San Antonio!! For a single female, what areas would you recommend are the safest?

sad that Alamo Heights is probably the best looking neighborhood in the whole city, but for exactly that reason it's way overpriced.

You couldn’t pay me to live in stone oak or anywhere outside 1604…

Cool please keep sending people west, Alamo ranch sounds good. lol

What are the more dangerous and crime ridden places at in San Antonio?

I thought this was a video of places you don't want to live?

Wait, the downfall of living in Helotes is not having easy access to downtown SA? I think that's a positive. Harder for SA residents to get TO Helotes. The people of Helotes don't care to get to SA often. I live near Helotes and HATE going into town. Could probably say the same for Stone Oak residents.

How do they prevent termites with houses built on tree trunks?

North side is the best out of all of them!

Timberwood Park was being developed in the early 90s, great schools and neighborhood festivals and events

3-400 a month in hoa. Hell nah.

Drive time from Stone Oak to DT is great???? Traffic is horrible over there…. If you compare to Houston then yeah…. During morning rush and afternoon rush hour it’s horrible after that it’s good…. It is one of the newer areas in San Antonio…. The airport used to be considered far north but now it’s Stone Oak which is 10 minutes north of the Airport

I have lived in San Antonio Texas my whole life. To sum this video up... Don't take his information as valid. If your moving to live in SA, stay completely away from the downtown area. The Pearl is part of the downtown area as well. Crime and the homeless are scattered all over the downtown area. Bandera and Helotes are terrible to live in. The traffic out there is horrible and far behind their development and Stone Oak is in the same category. Alamo heights is a decent area to live, raise your family but its on the higher end. Hollywood park recently has reported an increase in crime w shootings and car thefts.

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I guess the Stone Oak part of this video applies if you don’t already own a house there.

This guy is just speaking words. He's getting a lot of very basic info wrong. Def a transplant trying to dress the part. Probably new to real estate. Is anyone else catching some of this stuff?

Dont move to the Far west side to crowded,, marbach 1604, Potranco 1604,culebra 1604.. don’t come here.. stay in your zone.. 😂 go away.

How’s NW like helotes?

Just tell your audience the best place to move is the south side jajaja

Lisa Marie Ugarte

I lived there for fifty years

I'm going to have to disagree with you about the bus system . San Antonio has the best bus system in the nation. In downtown San Antonio there's more than 50 Route going through in-and-out of Of downtown San Antonio . Every route that you take meets with another route at your convenience. And the fare for the bus it's only a $1.30 . With a 2 and a 1/2 hour transfer. And the busses are brand new .

AVOID YOU IN TEXAS, GO TO CALIFORNIA

Ok,my last post got removed from one of your videos,so let me put it another way;.My 80yr old mother's car got stolen in broad daylight(2pm),From her driveway in CONVERSE.(Stadium area),by the Usual suspects,teens(witnesses say).😁

Explain this video , Title says dont live in these neigborhoods and then all he says is how great these hoods are

Don’t live in Stone Oaks, that’s nonsense 🤦🏻‍♀️

I don't know what is your grudge against San Antonio, San Antonio is a great city, visited by millions of people from different counties, violence? Like any other city. San Antonio is close to Mexico and its culture is very good, San Antonio is famous for its food and its celebrations, stop saying negative things about San Antonio. If you are a business owner and you had a bad year don't blame San Antonio, get out and fine another city.

You need to fix your toupee

Ronnie stoops hello

Misleading title. Don't think you really focused much on reasons not to live in these places...

Too dang hot there

I am planning on moving to or near SA from Sounth Florida any advice?

Far west side SUCKS! highway 90, 211, and Potranco rd are tragic during traffic time. Lots of new construction but 50% of it is just car washes lol. I can’t wait until my lease is up.

Dont live far west side!

helotes is baxar county, not madina county.

Bad public transportation keeps low income out!! And that I like. We heard where to live , not "where not to live"

Hello Ronnie stoops

Avoid these areas: west, south and east side. That leaves one side, and the north side is over-crowded and over-priced.

Disclaimer: I currently live in an apartment and not a house or condo (yet). I live in the NW area of the city, close to SeaWorld...I'm the area considered Thunderbird Hills/Leon Valley. I lived in Stone Oak previously, and I do love that area. I still hang out there. I also love my new home, though. I'm on the edge of the city, outside of the 410. Within the next few years I am potentially looking to buy a condo in The Rim/Dominion area, which I also love. 🫶🏾 This is a beautiful city, even considering the "cons," such as traffic, etc.

You do not want to live on the side of Helotes or any West side I just moved from there. There’s too much damn traffic as far is Stone Oak? What fine restaurants are you talking about? I live out that way and we are in Comal County and they are building like crazy out here in the median price is not 500,000 it’s six and 700,000 my home was 800,000 you need to get an update on Everything. You didn’t mention anything about Bulverde or fair Oaks those are beautiful, housing areas and we are right by 281. There’s a lot to do out here and they are building like wildfire.

Super informative! Don’t stop making these videos! @flipping_sanantonio