When Mille Holm Rasmussen and her partner Morten were looking for a weekend retreat, their initial thoughts turned to something that floated. Morten had been dreaming about a boat ever since their apartment in central Copenhagen had started to feel a bit too small, but in the end Mille thought a rural home would be more practical, especially if they started a family in the next few years. She convinced Morten to cycle out to Hvidovre, a leafy area in the city’s southwest, to look at a communal-garden development where they might be able to buy a small house adjoining some farmland.
“We took a look around and talked to some people, but there were no properties available at the time,” says Mille. However, the determined couple didn’t let that deter them; they simply went home and created 50 flyers to drop into mailboxes in the area. Within a week, a resident called to say she had a house they could buy.
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