Buy the Way: These cottagers left the lake—and then came back

ANDREA YU

KATHRYN IVY HAS fond memories of the time she spent with her parents and her four siblings at their family cottage on Minnicock Lake, Ont., in the ’80s and ’90s. “We’d go every weekend and all summer,” says Kathryn. But as the years passed, the cottage upkeep became difficult—and costly—to manage. They sold in 2000. “We were heartbroken,” says Kathryn. “We loved that cottage.” After having her first child in 2018, Kathryn yearned for her family to have the same cottage experience she did. So she rented cottages on Minnicock Lake with Sarah, one of her sisters. The duo contemplated buying a place together, but at the time, they were priced out. In 2022, after the sisters had saved up more money for a down payment, they revisited their cottage-buying…

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