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Top Reasons Sellers Sell, Sometimes with Remorse

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On October 27, 2010 · Add Comment · In Musings
Top Reasons Homeowners Sell, Sometimes with Remorse   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru Today we in the real estate business hear a lot about buyer’s remorse, which means either that a buyer regrets a housing purchase after the fact or walks away from a deal before it is consummated. The latter happens frequently in [...]
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How Not To Get Snookered by a Contractor

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On October 27, 2010 · Add Comment · In Musings
How Not To Get Snookered with Home Improvements By Bill Primavera The Home Guru As this column goes to press, I’m preparing to appear as The Home Guru at the Examiner’s booth at the Home Show at the Westchester County Center, the weekend of October 30 and 31. Because there will be many contractors there [...]
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Venetian Blinds, Practical, Beautiful

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On October 22, 2010 · Add Comment · In Musings
Window Blinds: Centuries of Practicality, Now Beauty  By Bill Primavera The Home Guru A distant memory from my childhood is the rackety clang of Venetian blinds when my mother would open a window and they would rattle with the wind. In those days, blinds were made of metal and, whether being raised or lowered, they [...]
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Accidents in the Garden

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On October 14, 2010 · Add Comment · In Musings
Accidents in the Yard and Garden Can Be Serious By Bill Primavera The Home Guru Something really dramatic happened to me last weekend that could have resulted in this issue’s front page headline announcing, “Home Guru Crushed in Freak Accident in Pool.” The article would have reported that this column would be retired, then go [...]
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Handling Pests and Wildlife

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On October 14, 2010 · Add Comment · In Musings
How To Get Rid of Uninvited, Annoying Houseguests  By Bill Primavera The Home Guru  During the many years we’ve lived in our home, my family has hosted a number of houseguests who were uninvited, annoying, and sometimes ugly, if not downright stinky. Naïve as I was when I moved from the city to the country, [...]
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It Takes a Village To Sell or Buy a Home

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On October 9, 2010 · Add Comment · In Musings
It Takes a Village to Sell or Buy a Home    By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   While those of us involved with real estate sales may have lulled ourselves into the belief that all consumers are better educated about buying or selling a home because of the Internet,  that is not necessarily the case, [...]
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A Realtor Lists His Own Home at the Bottom

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On October 9, 2010 · Add Comment · In Musings
My Decision to List at the Bottom of the Market  By Bill Primavera The Home Guru  Almost two years ago when I was invited to develop a column devoted to the real estate industry and care of the home and garden, I shared with readers that I was planning to sell my own home and [...]
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Fall Chores in the Garden

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On October 8, 2010 · Add Comment · In Musings
Fall Chores in the Garden, Yawning, Ready for Sleep   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru Autumn in the garden and yard can be the most gratifying time of year as deciduous trees and perennials start to yawn, preparing for a long winter’s sleep, accompanied by that sweet smell that comes from plants releasing their [...]
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Insulated Windows: The “Wow” Factor

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On October 8, 2010 · Add Comment · In Musings
  Insulated Windows: From Cynicism to the “Wow” Factor  By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   “Wow” is always a good response to hear from customers or clients who are considering any kind of purchase, right?   And in real estate, whether the exclamation is prompted by pulling up to a home with great curb [...]
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