Zillow: Cabin Life

Zillow: Cabin Life

- Cabin life is more work in certain areas but for us, the overall quality of life greatly outweighs the small little cons. We just like the slower pace, being a little more engaged with nature and hearing the birds sing every morning and seeing the elk and moose. It's pretty special. Yeah, living the dream. I'm Zach Grant. - And I'm Cindi Grant. We lived in an apartment in Salt Lake. - [Zach] I was very claustrophobic. - [Cindi] I found this little place back here but it was really hard to get to. So we snowboarded over here. Just with satellite images basically. - [Zach] It was a rough time in the market so thankfully not a lot of people were grabbing. - [Cindi] It was really the only thing in our price range. - And originally we thought we could just fix it up. Before you know it we were down to the foundation. With our budget being a ski bum budget, we had to reuse a lot of the materials. Thankfully we have a lot of friends and family in the trades. - [Cindi] It's come a long way. - [Zach] This particular property is not on any of the maps. So we can access the cabin via snowmobile. To be able to walk out the backdoor and just have our own powder paradise is pretty awesome. - [Cindi] We can get up like, with the sunshine and not feel rushed at all and leave our house and we're still breaking trail and we really don't have a lot of competition back here. - [Zach] It's definitely a selling feature. Yoda has been a great adventure buddy. - [Cindi] He's been hopping on snow mobiles his whole life and he goes snowboarding with us almost everyday and he really just doesn't know how good he has it, essentially. - He's a great gift in our life. Your home needs to be a retreat. Somewhere you can at the end of the day, unwind and be your little temple. If you're out there in the world thinking about cabin life, go for it. Don't be afraid to work hard for your dreams. It's all worth it in the long run.