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Hello, Mr. Trump, Sorry I Waited So Long to Shake Your Hand

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On March 30, 2014 · Add Comment · In Buying and Selling Homes
God has a great sense of humor. In the early 2000s when the Cappelli Organization came to Yorktown to reveal a plan for a large, luxury residential complex it wanted to build, I thought to myself I’d never want to live in a place like that. I thought it was just too big and expensive [...]
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Buyers: Your Best Choice May Surprise You

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On March 27, 2014 · Add Comment · In Buying and Selling Homes
Buyers are liars and sellers are storytellers is the first adage I heard when I got into real estate. While I got the gist of what the second phrase meant, I couldn’t quite grasp what agents meant when they called buyers liars. Then I caught on when I would hear such things as, “let me [...]
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Q: How’s the Housing Market? A: Well, that Depends

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Snapshots in Time – Market News & Conditions
Recently I attended a real estate seminar featuring a motivational speaker who advised attendees how best to respond to the question most frequently posed to realtors: “So, how’s the real estate market now?” “Don’t respond in a meaningless or dishonest way by saying simply, ‘It’s gr-r-reat!’ as many do,” he said, “But at the same [...]
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The Housing Market: “Something’s Coming, Something Good”

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Snapshots in Time – Market News & Conditions
Published April 16th, 2013. At least two or three  lifetimes ago when I was in the chorus of West Side Story in summer stock, I was envious as I listened in the wings each night when the actor playing Tony got to  sing “Something’s Coming,” the quintessential song of optimistic premonition. I don’t know if [...]
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Woodsman, Spare that Tree, Or Not

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Outside and In the Garden
The serenity of my morning ablution was interrupted by the sound of a chainsaw not far from my bathroom window. If it were 20 years ago, I would have jumped into sweatpants and a t-shirt without even drying off and run to the edge of my property to assail the worker I considered an offender [...]
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Just Turn the Spigot and Poof, the Magic of Water

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Trends and Observations
Don’t think that I’m really weird, but one of my favorite movies is Disney’s Enchanted where an animated fairy tale princess finds herself banished to real-life Manhattan, and one of her first discoveries of modern life is the magical waterfall when she turns on a spigot in the shower. Where does the water come from, [...]
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Musings of The Home Guru

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Trends and Observations
Here is a retrospective of musings that come from my past columns in The Examiner News. For a full index of articles, visit: www.PrimaveraHomes.com and click on The Home Guru icon. Will We All Return to Dust? Did you know that household dust is composed mostly of our own flaking skin? If we are uncomfortable [...]
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She’s Freezing. He’s Boiling. What To Do?

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Trends and Observations
As we know from reports in the media or from our own experience, office workers many times clash about a temperature in which to work. But, what happens when people share the same household and can’t agree on a comfortable temperature either in the hottest or coldest seasons? And what is the accepted ideal temperature [...]
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Moving and Packing Outside the Box, Inside the Box

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Trends and Observations
In my opinion, moving from one place to another should be near the top of the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale for life events, right under the death of a spouse, divorce or a jail term. But, no, it’s way down on the list at #32. Well, I just don’t’ buy it. It’s been a [...]
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All the World’s a Stage, and Our Homes Head the Bill

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Trends and Observations
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 night. But as I look back on the “footprints” of my life, I find that [...]
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