Buy the Way: How these sleepaway campers became cottagers

—ANDREA YU

WHITBY, ONT.-BASED couple Sharon Berman and Shael Risman both grew up attending sleepover camps in Ontario’s cottage country. After meeting at Haliburton, Ont.’s Camp Northland in the 1980s, marrying, and having a son and daughter in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the two thought about how nice it’d be to have a cottage of their own. “The hurdle was always the financial commitment,” says Sharon. In early 2020, just before the pandemic, Sharon’s mother suffered a stroke and sadly passed away, leaving the duo with a sum of money. Now, they had the means to afford a cottage. While Sharon was busy handling her mother’s estate, Shael was tasked with taking charge of the cottage hunt. The Berman-Rismans initially thought about buying in Kearney, Ont., since Shael’s brother and sister both…

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Cottage Life (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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