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Cottage real estate

2010 Royal LePage Recreational Property Survey

I often hear from cottagers who want advice about sharing ownership of cottages, so I was surprised that only 15 per cent of participants in the 2010 Royal LePage Recreational Property Survey released yeesterday plan to purchase with friends and family. Perhaps personal finances are looking up—or there are just too many horror stories of [...]

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Cottage roads divide neighbours

Where you find acrimony among cottagers, you’re likely to find a road too. Road disputes have long been a source of bitterness between neighbours: who gets to drive on it? who has to pay to maintain it? what do you do about the cottager who refuses to pay but uses the road anyway…? Here’s a [...]

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Cottagers are not tourists

A letter in the April 1 edition of The Bancroft Times caught our eye here at Cottage Life. On the Letters page is a long letter by Glenn Wert in which he proposes that Bancroft’s main industry is not Tourism, but the Cottage Market. Seasonal residents are not tourists, he says, because we pay taxes. [...]

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Seasonal conversions on cottage lakes

Guest post by Martin Zibauer, deputy editor Here’s an interesting demographic tidbit. If you drill down into the census data for some parts of Ontario, namely Peterborough County, the City of Kawartha Lakes, and the County of Simcoe you’ll find: • the number of new housing units built is very small • the number of [...]

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Down on the farm

The time has come to sell the cottage. In this space, I usually talk about my husband’s family place—a magical old-timer on Georgian Bay. But the one that sold this spring has been second home to my kin, the Caldwell clan, for about 30 years. You don’t hear about it because it’s not actually a [...]

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Can’t We Just Get Along?

About 30 years ago, a friend of mine went to his family cottage, fired up the chainsaw, and cut down most of the trees between the house and the lake. I can’t remember why he did this. He probably thought the place would look tidier, or the view would be improved. The trees were simply [...]

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Listen to audio of MPAC property tax meeting

If you’re concerned about your cottage property tax and didn’t make it through the snowstorm to the MPAC presentation to homeowners and cottagers two weeks ago, you may want to listen to a two-hour audio recording of the meeting posted on the CAPTR website. The organization, which is lobbying for property tax reform in Ontario, [...]

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Proposed 407 extension good for cottagers

There’s good news for Haliburton and Kawarthas cottagers—the Ontario Liberals have announced plans to extend Hwy. 407 to Hwy. 115/35. The province will own the portion of the highway from Brock Road in Pickering to its eastern end; what’s not clear is how the tolls will be harmonized with the existing 407 ETR, which is [...]

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