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link to Two Years in Our Manufactured Home: What We Love, What We’ve Learned, and What’s Next

Two Years in Our Manufactured Home: What We Love, What We’ve Learned, and What’s Next

I can hardly believe it’s been two years since we moved into our Quality Homes manufactured home! In some ways, it feels like we just arrived. In others, it’s like we’ve always been here - like...

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link to Modular Home Building FAQ – From the Customer’s Point of View

Modular Home Building FAQ – From the Customer’s Point of View

Every good manufactured/modular home builder will have a list of frequently asked questions on their website. Those pages are a wealth of information but they’re from a sales point of view. Here is...

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Making Our Well Water Drinkable

Even though each well or area may need different treatment elements to make water potable, the process to get there is fairly standard. Here’s how our process played out including what we paid!

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link to Moving Into Our New Build: Our Story and Best Tips for an Easy Move

Moving Into Our New Build: Our Story and Best Tips for an Easy Move

Moving in to our new build was exciting, surreal, and a lot of work! Here's our story and best tips for a smooth move into your new home.

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New Home Pre-Delivery Inspection and Tarion Warranty Activation

While technically complete, our home wasn’t quite ready for us to move in. In this post I describe the final steps to receiving your new home and activating your Tarion Warranty.

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link to Our New Build: Countdown to Completion

Our New Build: Countdown to Completion

Things seem to move really fast near the end of the project. Organizing a move, and making sure all of our “to-dos” are complete in time can get hectic. Be sure to read to the end for our best...

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Who is The Cottage Wife?

Hi! I'm Carol - The Cottage Wife. My husband Brian and I had a cottage on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada for over 10 years. It turns out that we love the area so much we've built our forever (retirement) home here. I thought it would be fun to share some of our adventures with you. One of the things we really want to focus on is making as light an impact on the land as we can, while still living a modern life. We'll see how that goes!

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