There’s still plenty to do in the Alamo City – like this:

FREE MOVIE NIGHT AT THE BIJOU 

Visit the Bijou Cinema Bistro each Thursday night for a free movie!

Catch a classic film on the big screen in the luxury of San Antonio’s premiere art house cinema. 

This week – Thursday - 5/05/11- Cleopatra

                                                    4522 Fredericksburg Road
                                                        San Antonio, TX 78201
                                                         Phone: 210-496-1300
                                                                 Bijou Website

Great Single Story home in Selma, 3/2/2 with covered porch and fenced yard just off Interstate -35, offering a quick commute to Austin or San Antonio and Randolph Air Force Base, Fort Sam Houston, and San Antonio Military Medical Center
Type: Single Family Home
Location: 8921 Pinseeker
Price: $134,500
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Stephanie and Randy Kelley, Realtors®
(210) 863-2661 or (210) 867-8743

The San Antonio Home Quest Realty Solutions Team

Keller Williams Legacy
1102 East Sonterra Boulevard, Suite 106, San Antonio, TX, 78258-3999

Community-Wide Helicopter Easter Egg Drop, Benefiting the San Antonio Food Bank

This special Easter event offers fun for the whole family.  There will be games, inflatables and lots of  giveaways delivered in a special way.

It’s on Saturday, Apr 23 9:30 a.m. at Lopez Middle School, 23103 Hardy Oak Blvd, San Antonio, TX 78258.

Imagine!

Just look up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a helicopter flying high above the San Antonio skies, ready to unload 30,000 toy and candy-filled eggs onto the grounds of Lopez Middle School.

Admission is free, but guests are asked to bring a non-perishable food item, and the San Antonio Food Bank truck will be on-hand to collect donations. read more

Phone: (832) 381-6848

Age Suitability: All Ages.

Announcement compliments of mysa.com .

Looking to buy or sell a San Antonio area home?  Visit us at                sanantoniohomequest.com

 It’s Fiesta finale time:

So, what’s happening now in the subdivisions near Lackland Air Force Base, Randolph Air Force Base, and Brooks City Base.

Despite the recent national economic downturn, San Antonio’s realty market hasn’t suffered significantly – just slowed.

Now, as our annual Fiesta celebration heralds the typically faster spring and early summer realty sales season, residential listing and sales activity is picking up, especially in the areas around San Antonio’s Air Force Bases.

Available home inventory is ample. In most neighborhoods, homes for sale list prices are stable and very comparable to last year’s prices.

The indicators all point to the Alamo City’s slower market having bottomed out and heading into a much more active phase for many months to come.

Foreclosure activity is moderate and there are many foreclosed properties near the Lackland and Randolph Air Force Bases and the Brooks City Base.  Buyers have been actively seeking out bargains, particularly in the relatively large inventory of lender owned foreclosed properties.

Investor interest is also picking up significantly. San Antonio has always held high potential for diligent realty investors who know what they’re doing.

So, why should realty investors consider San Antonio? The answer is evident.

In and around San Antonio, prices for good to excellent properties are generally low compared to other big cities. There is an ample supply of skilled tradesmen for home renovation and refurbishing projects. Materials are readily available and reasonably priced.

On the down side, home owners and rental and resale investors must be willing to accept relatively high property taxes, a low average home price appreciation rate, and, compared to other large cities, a longer than average holding period to make a profit.

All things considered, such down factors are more than offset by San Antonio’s consistently stable economic condition, realty market stability, and steady growth.

So, who has the advantage in San Antonio’s current realty market?

Industry analysts agree that the data reflect a market strongly favoring buyers over sellers. As for sellers, the advantage goes to the home seller most willing to reduce his or her price expectations and expend the money, time, and effort to improve the property’s condition and appearance.

That’s all for our April 2011 San Antonio realty market report.

We’re Stephanie and Randy Kelley, Realtors® at Keller Williams Legacy, San Antonio, Texas. If you need San Antonio realty or mortgage loan advice or assistance, or just want to chat, please call us at (210) 863-2661 for Randy, or (210) 867-8763 for Stephanie, or email us at swkrealtor@aol.com, or kelleybus@aol.com.

Our SanAntonioHomeQuest.com Realty Solutions Team is always ready to help you with your home buying or selling needs.

This excellent blog is from TexasHomeGirl.blogspot.com. 

Think back to elementary school, and to those early spring days when the sun was shining, the flowers were beginning to bloom and the trees were turning green.  It was just NOT a good time to be in the classroom. 

In the spring a young kid’s mind turns to thoughts of . . . . FIELD TRIP! 

This week San Antonio Home Girl got to join the kids at a local elementary (An exemplary school) on a field trip to Live Oak Park.  I haven’t had so much fun since I was in elementary school. 

The kids and I got to meet June, the cow.  The nice dairy farmer who transported her there explained that 1 farmer feeds about 100 people in the U.S.  He taught the kids a little about nutrition, a little about technology( they got to see the milking machine in action), and gracefully handled the inevitable question about where the baby cows come out.  Ah, spring!

Next the nice folks from SAWS (San Antonio Water System) provided a presentation in which the third grade class that I was accompanying “built” a water system.  They had to learn to inspect the pipes, budget, and build a water system to carry water from a well (bucket) to the city ( another bucket) . It was an engineering marvel!  Playing in water is always fun on a warm day, but it was also educational, the children loved it and they learned a valuable lesson in preparation and teamwork.  I was truly impressed. 

 There were other activities and the kids settled under a shady tree for lunch before boarding the buses back to school. 

This is just one of many excellent schools in the San Antonio area.   I was so happy to be a part of this day and I know many parents and grand parents who would enjoy the same opportunity.  If you want to learn more about the schools in and around San Antonio  you can enter a street address at : Great Schools Report to get a report for nearby schools or you can click on the links provided below for several of the Independent School districts.

• Judson I.S.D.
• North East Independent School District
• Schertz Cibolo Independent School District
• Northside Independent School District
• Comal Independent School District

We’re Stephanie and Randy Kelley, Realtors® ,

 sanantoniohomequest.com
at Keller Williams Legacy, San Antonio, Texas.

Contact us at (210) 863-2661 for Randy,

or (210) 867-8763 for Stephanie,

or E-mail us at swkrealtor@aol.com, or kelleybus@aol.com,

 Our broker is Steven Gragg at (210) 482-3200?.

Check out our  real estate blog @ sanantoniorealestate.blogspot.com