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NY Times Asks, Agent or No Agent?

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On December 22, 2009 · Add Comment · In Musings
The New York Times Asks, Agent or No Agent?   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru “Agent or No Agent?” was the headline of the lead article in last week’s Real Estate section of The New York Times, followed by the blurb, “The conventional way of selling a home, through a broker, is up against [...]
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Everything AND the Kitchen Sink

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On December 22, 2009 · Add Comment · In Musings
Everything AND the Kitchen Sink   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru  As Published in The Examiner and The Putnam Examiner   When you are at the kitchen sink cleaning lettuce or rinsing dishes in preparation for the dishwasher, do you ever wonder about the origins of this trusty staple in the heart of your [...]
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Let It Snow, But Be Smart about Removal

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On December 21, 2009 · Add Comment · In Musings
Let It Snow, But Be Smart about Removal   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   Published in The Examiner, The Yorktown Examiner and The Putnam Examiner December 22, 2009   Sledding down a hill, building a snowman, and throwing snow balls make the snowflake variety of precipitation great fun when we’re children, but as [...]
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Dismal First Quarter, 2009, in Real Estate, But Stirrings of Hope

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On December 19, 2009 · Add Comment · In Musings
Dismal First Quarter, 2009, in Real Estate, But Stirrings of Hope  By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   As published in The Examiner     Last week’s report by the Westchester-Putnam Multiple Listing Service of homes sold in the first quarter of 2009 was a bitter pill for home sellers and realtors alike.  With only [...]
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Is It a Good Time to Buy or Sell a Home in Westchester?

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On December 19, 2009 · Add Comment · In Musings
Is It a Good Time to Buy or Sell a Home in Westchester?   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   As published in The Examiner  Besides having a dual career as a reporter and a realtor, I am also a homeowner just like you.  For the past year and a half and, in particular, [...]
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How Women and Men Differ in Buying a Home

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On December 19, 2009 · Add Comment · In Musings
How Women and Men Differ in Buying a Home   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   As Published in The Examiner, The Putnam Examiner and The Yorktown Examiner If women are from Venus and men from Mars when it comes to communications between them, how does that translate when it comes to the purchase [...]
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Tree Conservation and Those Who Would Oppose It on Their Own Properties

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On December 19, 2009 · Add Comment · In Musings
Tree Conservation and Those Who Would Oppose It on Their Own Properties  By Bill Primavera The Home Guru  As Published in The Examiner, The Putnam Examiner and The Yorktown Examiner  “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree,” wrote poet Joyce Kilmer, obviously not checking with the property owners in [...]
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, But Not Always

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On December 19, 2009 · Add Comment · In Musings
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, But Not Always   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   As Published in The Examiner, The Putnam Examiner and The Yorktown Examiner  We have all heard the expression “good fences make good neighbors,” not referring literally to the construction of fences between us and our neighbors, but rather to [...]
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The Artistic Joy of Using Natural Stone in the Landscape

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On December 19, 2009 · Add Comment · In Musings
The Artistic Joy of Using Natural Stone in the Landscape   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   As Published in The Examiner, The Putnam Examiner and The Yorktown Examiner   In South Philadelphia where I was born, my family lived in a narrow row home with the expected white marble front steps. In back, [...]
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A Lazy GardenerÂ’s Best Friends

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On December 19, 2009 · Add Comment · In Musings
A Lazy Gardener’s Best Friends   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   As Published in The Examiner, The Putnam Examiner and The Yorktown Examiner   When I first moved to upper Westchester and had a decent property to cultivate, I studied, planned and planted a garden meant to quell the frustration of having lived [...]
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