Muskoka - the land of DIY projects, and many of them not intentional! It's probably one of few places in the world where the hand-me-down capita, in both properties and contents, exceeds any other place in the country. Why? I can't answer that but every single person who has spent time here has some personal connection to the area, and with that comes buildings full [...]
In the online world faces always help. So who am I? I am a life long Lake Muskoka cottager who has been extending what's known as 'cottage season' since I had my drivers license! Always the business lady, even when I had a job where I had to go to an office downtown, one could find me on Hwy 400 in the wee hours of the night commuting [...]
Tomatoe, tomatoe; staging, flipping. No matter how you say it; whether you actually live in the house and are selling it or it's an investment property, the first rule of reselling homes always applys. 1. Work backwards from the potential list of what COULD exist within the current walls. It's no joke that home prices are skyrocketing and we're all having to deal with smaller spaces [...]
2 crappy weather summers seem like a distant memory after the sun, heat and drought of summer 2016. It seems the boat sales market isn't the only thing booming around the Muskoka area however. For the first time in over a decade there are bidding wars on cottages going down! In taking a gigantic overview of the Muskoka real estate market here's whats up: Sales up 23% [...]
We've been so crazy busy lately that I forgot that we had tickets to the Gravenhurst theatre, thankfully remembering a few hours shy of the curtain call! Pretty happy that I did because we spent two hours in a suprisingly non-packed theatre watching four extremely talented actors/tresses execute a brilliantly clever and witty theatre production called THUMBS. Having never stepped foot inside the Gravenhurst Opera [...]
Spring may have sprung, or in the case of last weekend, summer, but today is far more exciting than any day yet because docks have resurfaced on Lake Muskoka! That's right no more this ... While it could have been alot worse in the end, and very few folks will arrive to find scenes like this rather more like this, it just's a reminder that this [...]
