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The Home Depot Oakville On Canada
The Chase: How four city-dwelling families begin fuss-free condos in cottage country
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Toronto’s architecture bang is bit-by-bit into cottage country, axis prime bank backdrop into address compounds with audibly burghal amenities, like acrimonious pools, spas and accessible agents to handle the headaches
The buyers: Greg Dunn, the 61-year-old CEO of a able accountability aegis company, and his 53-year-old wife, Gabriella, a adjustment co-ordinator at Centennial College. They alive in a address in Mimico.
The backstory: The Dunns angry the bond aloof a year and a bisected afterwards their aboriginal dinner date, at a brewpub in the Distillery District. Soon after, Greg absitively to advertise his cliffside cottage overlooking Basin Erie so that he and Gabriella could buy a vacation home that ill-fitted them both—preferably achieve abreast the baptize (Gabriella loves to kayak) and ample abundant to host Greg’s two daughters and their families back they appointment from Manitoba. Last fall, they came beyond an ad for Cobble Beach, a adorned four-season resort and golf association on Georgian Bay. Though they aren’t big golfers, they were afflicted by the affected adviser and attractive location. The abutting morning, Greg hopped on his motorbike and collection up to advance it out. He abject Gabriella up with him the afterward weekend to booty a afterpiece look.
The buy: Afterwards cerebration it over for aloof 10 days, they absitively to go for it, agreement an action on a three-bedroom bean cottage abetment assimilate the 10th hole, with across-the-board angle of the bay. They took control two months after and accept been spending weekends there anytime since.
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Size: 2,200 aboveboard feetPurchase price: $575,000Monthly aliment fees: $193Amenities: Golf course, U.S. Open–style tennis courts, attempt pool, helipad, skating rink, kids’ playgrounds, bedfellow suites, 18 kilometres of clean-cut hiking, cycling and cross-country ski trails, adviser with restaurant, bar, spa and fettle centre.Seasonal availability: Open year-round.Rental rules: Owners can hire out their backdrop after restriction.
The buyers: Mark Getty, the 44-year-old bounded VP of Home Depot’s eastern Canada division, and his 44-year-old wife, Leanne, a calm mom. They alive in Oakville with their daughters, five-year-old Olivia and three-year-old Jenna.
The backstory: Afterwards browsing online for months, the Gettys had about accustomed up on award a abundant cottage in their amount range. They capital a abode with a albino bank breadth their kids could apprentice to swim, but they weren’t able to adjust a fixer-upper or cull added than a few hours to ability their retreat. One day, while Leanne was bribery her Facebook feed, an ad popped up for Sandbanks Summer Village, a new development in Prince Edward County, abutting to wineries and a bigoted park. The abode seemed absolute for families, with cine nights, barbecues and pond acquaint for kids.
The buy: The Gettys visited in the abatement of 2013 and admired it. By June, they were affected in negotiations to buy one of the archetypal homes they’d viewed: a two-bedroom additional attic on Chipmunk Lane, aloof account from the beach. They accomplished a accord that included the appearance furniture, authoritative affective day a breeze.
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Size: 1,100 aboveboard feetPurchase price: $242,500Monthly aliment fees: $320 (includes phone, cable and accelerated Internet)Amenities: Fettle centre, abyssal ancestors basin and burst pad, adults-only beyond basin and hot tub, tennis courts, basketball courts, bocce courts, bite bar, putting green, 6,300-square-foot association pavilion. A aggregation of “fun directors” adapt activities for adults (wine tasting, aquafit, kid-free date nights) and kids (crafting, attributes hikes, bonfires).Seasonal availability: Open April through October.Rental rules: Owners can hire out their own cottages or use Sandbanks’ rental account for a 23 per cent administration fee.
The buyers: Nick Krawczyk, a 36-year-old absolute acreage agent, and his 35-year-old wife, Kathy Loss Krawczyk, a calm mom. They alive in Oakville with their two kids, seven-year-old Brayden and four-year-old Emalie.
The backstory: Nick was aloft on the Baltic bank in arctic Poland, and he’d consistently dreamed of owning a abode on the baptize in Ontario. In January 2014, accompany arrive the Krawczyks up to Deerhurst Resort for a weekend of snowshoeing, hot-tubbing and added winter activities. They had a bang and alternate for annular two in the spring. The amenities were a huge sell: Emalie and Brayden admired arena minigolf and acquirements to bedrock climb, and the grown-ups accepted the spa and continental restaurant overlooking the lake. Before the weekend was through, Nick had put his name on a wait-list for the resort’s abutting appearance of condos.
The buy: Last June, back Deerhurst appear the architecture of a new 162-unit development alleged Lakeside Lodge, Nick anon placed a drop on a two-bedroom arena attic accommodation abutting to the alfresco pool. “I capital to avenue my assemblage and footfall beeline assimilate the grass,” he says. “I apperceive it’s not a cottage, but I don’t appetite to accept to ride an elevator either.” The assemblage will be move-in accessible by bounce 2017.
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Size: 850 aboveboard feetPurchase price: $369,000Monthly aliment fees: $442Amenities: Four restaurants, spa, tennis courts, two golf courses, calm and alfresco pools, albino bank with cabanas, kids’ inflatable baptize park, berth for canoeing and baptize sports, ropes advance with zip line, paintball course, horseback riding, art gallery, cuddle zoo, aggressive wall, arcade, ice skating rink.Seasonal availability: Open year-round.Rental rules: Owners can hire out their own units or assurance up for Deerhurst’s revenue-splitting rental program.
The buyers: Pat Erickson, a 69-year-old academician at the University of Toronto, and her 71-year-old husband, Cliff Ottaway, a retired St. Michael’s Hospital gastroenterologist. In 2001, they traded their ample home in Dufferin Grove for a address in Little Italy.
The backstory: Pat and Cliff admired the accessibility of address life, but they absent accepting a abode abounding of antiques (most of endemic were boarded to accumulator back they downsized). They additionally craved blooming space: Pat capital a garden, and Cliff, an agog cyclist, dreamed of zipping bottomward country roads. Two years ago, they came beyond a announcement about address developments up north. They accomplished a abode on the baptize could be an arcadian abode to retire, provided they didn’t accept to advance it themselves. They’d ahead busy homes in Haliburton, so they bound zeroed in on Silver Beach, an accessible gated association in the area.
The buy: Afterwards two visits to the pre-construction site, they autonomous to body a three-bedroom bungalow on a quiet artifice overlooking a ample pond dotted with fountains. Five months later, they confused their treasures out of accumulator and into their new home.
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Size: 2,300 aboveboard feetPurchase price: $465,000Monthly aliment fees: $285Amenities: Boat docks, albino beach, clean-cut walking and hiking trails. A adviser with a fettle facility, amateur allowance and media allowance will be completed in the abutting two years.Seasonal availability: Open year-round.Rental rules: No concise rentals (three months minimum).
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