Cottage Life
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28th August 2024
Buy the Way: A couple buys a Muskoka River cottage for $20K under asking
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, le...