I just sort of had a meltdown at that point and said we're going to look at property. ... Some of it was things just fell into place for us.

There isn't anything yet that I would necessarily do different, but from my perspective that comes from the planning and thought we put into the home.

We wanted the house to represent the zone between the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Great Basin.

We're not wealthy people in the big scheme of things in Reno. I do think a lot of people could achieve this.

It depends how much effort you want to put into it. For us, it wasn't that much effort really.