friends who have built homes and after the fact they had nothing good to say about their builder, it just wasn’t a good experience for them. I don’t want to be that for anybody. I never want to be that guy. I never want to have that reputation.” Moving forward, Cody’s goal is to continue building the opposite reputation – and he intends to continue building that reputation organically, by delivering undeniably highquality homes and by satisfying the select clients that he chooses to work with. In the future, Cody also envisions working more in Kenora. He recently built his own personal cottage there, as well as a cottage for his brother-in-law, and he’s currently finishing up a spec cottage there that he hopes to put up for sale soon. “We’re testing a new market out there,” Cody says. “The price point that will be on this next cottage is going to be almost double anything else that is sold on the lake. So I’m taking a pretty big risk. The real estate agent at first thought I was crazy, but once he walked through the project and saw the quality and everything that was there, he got it. Now he’s confident that it will sell for what I think it’s worth.” Brownstone Estates owns another eight lots on the lake, and Cody is confident in that investment: “Cottage life is huge right now,” he says. “The value of land on the lake just keeps going up and up and up. I know personally, once my kids get out of school, we spend most of our summer up there together. I believe that’s where people want to go, that’s where they want to be. We’re going to find out soon if I’m right or not.” OCTOBER 2023 Photo: Suite Six Design
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