The search
When real estate agent Alexis Victor set out on a day trip from her Washago, Ont., home in February 2021 with her husband, Patrick Fay, and their young daughter, MacIntyre, the family didn’t intend to go cottage-hunting.
But, on the way to Huntsville, Ont., while Patrick was driving, Alexis was casually looking at listings online and spotted a three-bedroom, two-bathroom property on Henshaw Lake, listed for $1,200,000. “It was a ‘stop the car!’ moment,” she recalls. The cottage, built in 1967, hadn’t been updated in decades. But Alexis loved its mid-century modern vibe. “It looked like the set of The Brady Bunch,” she says.
The family already owned a three-bedroom, 700-sq.-ft. cottage on Lake Simcoe, which Patrick bought in 2008. But the Henshaw Lake property was three times…