Home Guru

By Bill Primavera Unless you live in a single-family home in some remote location, you probably experience some kind of noise that doesn’t emanate from your own household. Sometimes it can be accommodated with grace, but depending on your personality

By Bill Primavera Now that I live in a maintenance-free condo, all I have to do to transition from the summer and fall months to winter is switch the HVAC from air conditioning to heat. It’s as simple as that,

By Bill Primavera Some years ago, I wrote a Home Guru column called The Lazy Man’s Guide to Gardening which proved very popular. It presented an assortment of techniques to bypass back-breaking labor in the garden (mostly focusing on proper

By Bill Primavera When I first moved to Westchester, my new home was an old home, a very old home, built originally in 1734, with wings added in 1797 and 1861.  It was interesting that in the original wing of

By Bill Primavera As I sat down to write a piece about doorbells, I realized that it’s been so long since we’ve had visitors to our home in Trump Park – because of the pandemic – that I had forgotten

By Bill Primavera For many, the effects of Hurricane Ida are still being dealt with, reminiscent of the travails of the infamous Superstorm Sandy that hit us in 2012.  Sandy was very costly to me as a homeowner in that

By Bill Primavera Don’t think that I’m weird, but one of my favorite movies is Disney’s “Enchanted.” The animated fairytale princess finds herself banished to real-life Manhattan, and one of her first discoveries of modern life is the magical waterfall

By Bill Primavera As a realtor who really enjoys his work, I have no regrets about any of the deals I’ve brokered for either my buyers or sellers – except for one detail I brokered for the sale of my

By Bill Primavera After enduring the “blues” of the COVID-19 pandemic for almost two years, enduring “black” moods because many of us find ourselves in the “red” with the loss of jobs, or perhaps we’re “green” with envy of those