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Article: Rentable memories.(News; Melanie Rochon of Cottage Ontario Exclusives )(Interview)
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- Northern Ontario Business
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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For clients of Parry Sound-based Cottage Ontario Exclusives, it is about finding that ideal cottage for the summer. For owner Melanie Rochon, it is all about streamlining something that should have been streamlined long ago.
Rochon, 24, opened her business back in 2000 because she was disappointed over the fact that cottage owners could not easily rent out their unused cottages over the summer because of a lack of communication and co-ordination between cottage property owners, cottage advertisers and vacation renters. Many of the property owners, she says, also live outside the country and cannot take care of all aspects of renting their cottage.
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