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Category: The New Build

link to Choosing A Builder – Part 3: Why We Chose to Build a Quality Home

Choosing A Builder – Part 3: Why We Chose to Build a Quality Home

Yes, we're choosing to build a Quality Home/ Factory built home, let's take a look at the rest of the reasons for our choice.

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link to Site Built Homes and Manufactured Homes: A Side By Side Comparison

Site Built Homes and Manufactured Homes: A Side By Side Comparison

Choosing between a site built home and a modular (also known as a manufactured a home) is a highly personal process. In this post, we’ll put the two building types side by side and show you how to...

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link to Choosing Our Builder – Part 2 – The Manufactured Home Builder

Choosing Our Builder – Part 2 – The Manufactured Home Builder

A manufactured home, also called a modular home, is one that's built in a factory, shipped to your site in modules and finished on site as required.  Here's what you need to know about manufactured...

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link to Choosing Our Builder – Part 1 – The Site-Build Contractor

Choosing Our Builder – Part 1 – The Site-Build Contractor

As with choosing your lot, choosing your builder is a decision you don't want to get wrong. There are so many options for site built home builders and manufactured homes that it can be hard to know...

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link to Building Your Dream Home for Retirement: 5 Special Considerations

Building Your Dream Home for Retirement: 5 Special Considerations

You’ve been working a long time and been responsible with your money (mostly), knowing that this time would come – Retirement! While it’s tempting to jump into building a dream home with all...

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link to Buying Our Building Lot

Buying Our Building Lot

While we had a lot of data gathered through the years, we quickly discovered that each lot has its own merits, considerations and value. This will help with your buying decision.

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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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