Peter and Sara thought building a new house was not in the card for them. They were hesitant to take on the intricacies of constructing a new home and, besides, they never saw a property on the market they liked. “I have lived beside water all of my life, and because I know this area and Chemong Lake very well, I am pretty picky,” says Peter who operated a retail business in Bridgenorth for 23 years and retired 15 years ago.