Home Guru

By Bill Primavera As a realtor, I have learned much of what I know as The Home Guru from my buyers and sellers. One example, learned early in my career in real estate from my early buyer clients Jennifer and

By Bill Primavera Perhaps I’ve always been a bit too sensitive about noise in and around my home environment. I was first made aware of this when I moved into my first apartment in New York in a brand-new building,

By Bill Primavera I will soon be listing a home for sale for a couple who is moving out of state to be close to their children.  They thought that they had found their ideal retirement home in that location,

By Bill Primavera For the past few years, I’ve been living in a condominium whose street name is that of a recent former president. While a highly political friend tells me that she would not live on a street bearing

By Bill Primavera We had a heat wave in recent days, but not venturing outside during that period I was totally unaware of it. I was sitting in my home office rubbing my hands together to warm them up, as

By Bill Primavera It’s been almost six years since we moved into a new condo, and all during that time, one big question mark remains in completing the decoration of its great room, and it doesn’t seem likely to be

By Bill Primavera Just recently my wife attempted to turn on our central air conditioning and nothing happened. After a visit from an HVAC technician, we found that it couldn’t be repaired but had to be completely replaced.  It was

By Bill Primavera COVID-19 did a good job of casting a pall over our day-to-day lifestyle, stuck mainly at home as we were and venturing out only masked and fearful of getting too close to anyone else.  It would be

By Bill Primavera Never will I forget that early morning when my wife and I woke up, and she said that she felt that someone had been in our bedroom, looking at us in bed. At first, I thought that