Cottage Life

Take it out back

ean Kelly, a 28-year-old city dweller, faced that ultimate millennial conundrum: he was ready to buy his own property, a piece of paradise on which to build a cottage, but the exploding market priced him out of the lots he liked. So, like many of his generation, he turned to his parents for help—but not with the down payment. Instead, Sean asked if he could build a bunkie at the back of their Schomberg, Ont., property. It would

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