OMG!!! What a freaking awesome idea. Our dream is to also buy some land and have a log home built. We were thinking buy some property with a mobile home and build when we could afford it. BUT I wander how much a basement would be. Hmmmm. I never ever thought of this. I even thought of building a garage/work shop and living in it. Now I am wandering if you can even have basements in CA. They don't have them here. I has basements growing up in the mid west but have yet seen one here. Hmmm. Dont mind me, thinking out loud.
THanks for the idea!'