By Bill Primavera
By Bill Primavera Around this time of year, I start to see large paper bags filled with leaves parked by the roadside. I usually say to myself, what a waste! I just can’t understand why anyone would part with this
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Like many people at my stage of life, I’m planning projects for not just one house but for two, as I prepare to move from an oversized house to a brand new smaller one, a beautiful new
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Real estate isn’t as sexy as it once was, and it probably won’t be for a long time to come, according to the pros. Why would I relate real estate to sex, you might ask? Well, you
Read MoreBy 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
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera When I had the great pleasure of taking on this gig as The Home Guru, I suggested to the publisher that I make my columns personal in approach. After all, a column devoted to real estate and
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera When I received a call from a 92-year-old gentlemen telling me that he had read every one of my articles since I started writing as The Home Guru, I was quite flattered. And, when he told me
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera My friend Dave Goldberg, the plumbing and heating supplier in upper Westchester who retired from his own business, called me last week to tell me that he had joined the board of Freedom Gardens in Mohegan Lake
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Would you believe that 52 percent of American companies operate as home businesses, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration? My wife and I have been in that category almost from the day we were married and
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Of all the wonderful and diverse communities we have in the Hudson Valley, one of the most intriguing for both its promise of the future and grittiness of the past is Peekskill. Historically, Peekskill is known as
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera When I was 10 years old, I had a summer experience of great wonderment. My father had taken a short-term work assignment in Lynchburg, Va. My mother, he and I took up temporary residence in an antebellum
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