Long, 62, said her grandfather expressed in his will a desire that the house should remain in the family. After the death of an uncle, “My dad got the house, and we got it from him,” Jake Best said. “When I was younger, I was over here a lot,” Jake Best said. “I could see us out here using it.”“The luxury is I was able to work on it before we moved in,” Jake Best said. “He was pretty much bringing the house he grew up in back to life,” Jake Best said of his father.