Skip navigation

 Login or Register | Member Centre

Reason expected to trump passion this summer

CAROLYN IRELAND

Globe and Mail Update

Latest comment posted at 2:31 PM EST 07/07/08

Sellers should be realistic about what they ask, agent warns. Potential cottage buyers are worried about the price at the pump — along with increasing traffic congestion, a slumping real estate market and the general health of Canada's economy. ...Read the full article

This conversation is closed

  1. Imperial K from Canada writes: I wonder if things stay this way, if ti will usher in a new era 'good or bad depending where you sit' where cottages for those that can afford them will be bulldozed for larger ones, making it more of a hamptons thing alla the U.S. where only the wealthy can have them.

    But, if we adapt fast enough this may be averted, as would all the other damaging issues of people cutting back on travel. We need smaller cars and cheaper ways to move around that do not involve giant land cruisers for a family of 8 plus animals and all the luggage one took with them to migrate at one time.

    It's just time to scale back and do things in a different way, I imagine alternatives to the cars we are currently 'cursed' with will come about..but how long that takes is another matter.
  2. lary waldman from Qualicum Beach, Canada writes: It would appear that reality has not yet set in with the rich and beautiful of Ontario. That's reality?

    Lary Waldman
  3. Frank Castor from Zephyr, Canada writes: Rich people usually aren't beautiful, except in Hollywood.

    They are usually ugly, and try to make up for it with money.

    Disagree? Take a look in the mirror.
  4. Oh Really from Canada writes: Even the modest places are still a lot of money for a very short summer season -- how many times do people typically get up there? If price appreciation becomes limited, I would have to think that renting rather than owning will become even more popular.
  5. Cliff Pallette from Kearney, Canada writes: You can't view cottage country as an area of million dollar mortgages. The majority of these properties were bought years ago long before the pain of today's inflated costs.
  6. Nature Lover from Canada writes: Its kind of funny when one generation can own multiple homes while the children of that generation struggle to have maybe even one. Not saying that cottages are anything more than just fantasy real estate since most of them are not situated in places that are habitable year round, but the new style cottage (4000 sq ft ) is more a statement of wealth than any kind of 'get away'.
  7. Robin Hannah from Canada writes: Reason vs. passion 'this summer', ask the Muskoka real-estate agents? Blow me.

    I've never seen a more obvious grab for cash, than what you people have demonstrated in the last several years. Timid little old cottages torn down and replaced by 3,4,5-storey behemoths, lit up like Vegas casinos. Good for you. You've won.
  8. Sarah Bee from Canada writes: I always knew the best way to appreciate nature was by bulldozing it, then driving over it a few times in my SUV for good measure. Take that, nature!

    FYI, G & M you have the chance here to correct a common misuse of the word cottage. By definition, a cottage is a small, rural, typically one-story modest dwelling. Gaudy, enormous, transplanted suburban homes for the wealthy don't count as cottages just because they are on a lake.
  9. City Pig from Toronto, Canada writes: Sarah Bee from Canada:

    Gaudy, enormous, transplanted suburban homes for the wealthy. Is that what your suggesting we call it, I've always called it my cottage. And for your information, I don't own a bulldozer or an SUV. It's a nice place for my kids to go in the summer, they swim, fish, canoe paddle boat and water ski.

    Nice family time. Get over yourself.
  10. YOO HOO, OVER HERE, YOU STUPID CANADIAN I got the latest CON-job lie for your weak mind from Harperville, Calgary SW, Canada writes:

    City Pig writes: canoe paddle boat

    -------------------------------I think you should stick to the city.
  11. City Pig from Toronto, Canada writes: YOO HOO, OVER HERE, YOU STUPID CANADIAN

    LOSER!

Comments are closed

Thanks for your interest in commenting on this article, however we are no longer accepting submissions. If you would like, you may send a letter to the editor.

Report an abusive comment to our editorial staff

close

Alert us about this comment

Please let us know if this reader’s comment breaks the editor's rules and is obscene, abusive, threatening, unlawful, harassing, defamatory, profane or racially offensive by selecting the appropriate option to describe the problem.

Do not use this to complain about comments that don’t break the rules, for example those comments that you disagree with or contain spelling errors or multiple postings.

Back to top