Home Guru

By Bill Primavera Nothing like strong winds closing down the functionality of a house to get you thinking about things that normally are pushed to the back of the mind by the busyness of TV, cell phones, Facebook and Twitter.

By Bill Primavera Recently I drove by our former home, a large 18th century farmhouse my wife Margaret and I owned for over 40 years. I was somewhat surprised to find that one of the giant sugar maple trees that

By Bill Primavera Where or how my wife Margaret could have gotten a bad case of poison ivy is a puzzlement. She’s far from the outdoors type, which I discovered early in our marriage when I suggested we take a

By Bill Primavera Our homes are where we eat, sleep, play, sometimes work and store things we’ve finished using but somehow can’t bear to throw away. There are many reasons we may want to hold on to stuff we no

By Bill Primavera Like most people, I’m stuck at home thinking about what is going on outside of the safety and isolation of my home. Life as we knew it has changed dramatically during this pandemic. Many questions and scenarios

As a realtor, I always look for home listing or purchase opportunities that include a garage, mostly because most buyers today demand one. If you’re like me, you pull into and out of your garage every day without thinking much

By Bill Primavera A while back I received a call from a 92-year-old gentleman telling me that he had read every one of my articles since I started writing as The Home Guru. I was quite flattered. When he told

By Bill Primavera Buyers and sellers who seem perfectly nice and normal throughout the sales transaction can suddenly lose their cool when the seller asks at the last minute that a modest chandelier over a kitchen table be excluded among