Home Guru

Some people would say that it’s impolite to ask the question, “What do you do?” when meeting someone for the first time.  But I always do, believing that it’s much of a person’s makeup and always a good ice breaker.

Depending on which statistics are to be believed, at least half of married couples decide not to heed the Bible’s warning in Matthew that “what God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” We in the real estate business

If you’re like me, you pull into and out of your garage every day without thinking much about it. Usually I fumble for the automatic garage door opener, which I never have assigned to a particular place in my car,

This spring and summer, I didn’t invite anybody over to my property because I was too embarrassed, yes embarrassed. Most people who know me now associate me with The Home Guru who doles out advice about home maintenance, both inside

When my home was built in the 1730s, its owners took care of their household garbage in a fairly simple manner: they dug a hole in the ground and buried it. As a result, many times I’ve unearthed broken china

Normally not one to make pronouncements of historic proportion in so complex a field as the housing market, (where even top analysts have stumbled repeatedly in the throes of the housing bubble and its rapid but enduring deflation,) I’m going

When Donna Riniti came on board as the managing broker at my Coldwell Banker office, she introduced herself to the agents as a “neatnik” and rated applause for the revelation. Why is that I wondered? Within a short period of

Fed by a booming post-World War II economy, many of us and our parents grew up with the notion that bigger is better in all things It started with larger refrigerators that replaced tiny ice boxes; cars that jumbo-sized to

When I was a young man, I thought that staying home was being “no place” and that the high points of my life were to be played out on the stage of the world, away from where I slept at

As far as I know, there is no research to support my observations about how parents influence the eventual choices of their children regarding the kind of home they choose and household they run. But I must share a recent