San Antonio definitely has some pockets of town where appreciate for single family homes is particularly great. 

This is making it incredibly challenging to compete with.As you poke into Brewery town, point breeze and going further into those neighborhoods you will start to see the class of RE change quite drastically. 

Yes and this is where the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade an​d Consum​er Protection (DATCP) comes in as the state’s primary consumer protection agency.

I live about 30 minutes outside of Knoxville in a used-to-be small town that is booming and shows no sign of slowing down.

I'm happy to grab coffee or show you around whenever you are in town.

Another, scarier story I have is from when my business partner at the time and I were touring a house that'd been vacant and on the market for a few years, deep in the back woods of Vershire VT, real middle of nowhere town that has fewer residents now than way back in the 18th century.

what town and state are they in?

If you have the means to get a loan and house hack in your current situation, I'd think living in a college town and knowing that town and area well would give you a strategic advantage.  

For example, a large employer may leave a small town eroding their tax base.

Your engineer or surveyor or town planning personnel should be able to give some idea of the timeline to having approval and a building permit.