Downtown has been revamped into a live, work, play kind of theme.

If need be, to better match the new theme, you could also add wainscoting to the kitchen counter (where stools would go) as a "kick" plate of sorts.

Some local favorites would be places like Dick's Last Resort [sassy waiters is the theme], Silo, The Fig Tree, & the Hard Rock Cafe is usually a pretty good time.The Riverwalk is a bit more commercial than it used to be but still has enough San Antonio feel left in it to have a good time.Enjoy!

Weeks after graduating college and the week after our wedding, we bought our first home with only 3% down (which was almost all we had).

You are claiming to have learned from your youthful mistakes and are trying to help people, but statements like this are undermining of the theme you are trying to achieve.  

For me personally, I try to stay away from anything that feels like it could even remotely be considered a fad that’s tacky at a future point in time.It’s also important to me to own properties that aren’t simply built to be a rental, they could also double as a permanent place to stay (ie I wouldn’t personally build a dome/yurt/cliff dwelling/etc. even now, when I see the Orlando places with extreme themed rooms….on one hand I get it…I’m personally turned off.

Can you make a roof grotto/bar area and lease it to a bar owner for use during the warmer months, and for weddings.

I’m new to RE investing, but the common theme I keep reading is there are deals out there to be found.

When the FDIC forces a shotgun wedding between a failing bank and its successor, does the successor have to honor the existing leases or is there a renegotiation?

the general theme/theory is that suburban sprawl destroys inner cities so these developers of interest have a heavy emphasis on mixed use property development to restore old cities...