San Antonio House

Well, we have a contract on a house. We're supposed to close on it mid March.....Derek is going to fly down this weekend for the inspection to make sure everything looks good with it since it's 18 years old. He'll also be looking at other houses while he's there....just in case.
We've been looking for a house basically ever since we found out we were going to San Antonio. We're so excited to finally own a home (and for the sweet tax return.) This house, like I said earlier, is an older home and could definitely use some updates. The thing that attracted us the most to this house was the fact that it is in a gated community and the schools are the best in this area. We really want our kids to have a great education and want to feel safe so this was perfect for us. It's also in the highly sought after Hill Country, which could be good when we go to try to sell it in four years when it's time to move again. It's within a 20-30 minute drive to EVERYTHING - work (LAckland AFB), Sea World, Six Flags, shopping, downtown. The biggest downfall to it is the fact that it's older and needs the updates. Okay, maybe not needs.....but I want them. I've been really down about the house since we bought it. Just because all of the other houses we were looking out were absolutely gorgeous (granted, a lot that we were looking at were about 100,000 out of our price range)....which brings me to another point about why this house is good for us. We got it for a great price! Derek knows a lot of people that live in San Antonio from work and they are all amazed at the home we got. They say that is an incredible price and the BEST area to live in hands down. They all think the house is really nice too. Now I just need to see it! Which, I really am starting to. We've been watching a lot of the DIY network and so I've started to really see the potenital this home could have. So I'm excited to see what we can do! Anyway, here are the pics of the house. Stay tuned for the updates (which will hopefully be done by the end of the summer). Our main focus will be the kitchen and bathrooms.