A California couple builds a $500,000 home in their parents’ backyard after the price prevented them from owning their dream neighborhood.
Like many Californians, Aislyn and Ali Benjamin found themselves excluded from the neighborhood of their dreams. In Danville, a small city east of San Francisco, the median home sales price hit $1.8 million in August, according to Zillow. (1) But instead of looking at properties they couldn’t afford, the couple decided to build a $500,000…