In 2021, Cassia and Jesse Yi’s 10-by-20-foot back yard in San Diego was starting to feel a little cramped. With two young children, the couple longed for a place the whole family just “go outside and be outside.”
“We were thinking we’d buy, I don’t know, five acres, and then eventually build on it and just have a little weekend getaway,” explains Cassia.
However, just a year later, the two found themselves the proud new owners of a 26-acre property with two sprawling log homes (one clocks in at 4,500 square feet, the other at 3,900 square feet) 40 minutes away in Alpine, California. Cassia recalls that Jesse found the listing and sent it to her, and while they both thought it was interesting, “It was much, much more ambitious…