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When “Has Anyone Died in this House?” Is the Question

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Guru Thoughts
When “Has Anyone Died in this House?”  Is the Question By Bill Primavera The Home Guru As published in The Examiner in Westchester and Putnam    “Has anyone ever died in this house?” was the first question I was asked by one realtor whose clients had viewed one of my listings and liked it.  Within [...]
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Best Home Improvements for Resale Value

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Guru Thoughts
Best Home Improvements for Resale Value   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   Published in The Examiner, August, 2009   With home prices still falling, albeit slowing down, and the economy still in recession, homeowners may be thinking differently about the process of making improvements to their homes. Every dollar spent never comes close [...]
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An Insider’s View of How to Pick a Realtor

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Guru Thoughts
An Insider’s View on How To Pick a Realtor By Bill Primavera The Home Guru As published in The Examiner in Westchester and Putnam      You don’t have to settle on just any realtor when you buy or sell a home. There are good reasons to select a realtor with exactly the kind of personality [...]
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The Dizzying Dance of Pricing with Three Performers

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Guru Thoughts
The Dizzying Dance of Pricing with Three Performers By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   As published in The Examiner in Westchester and Putnam  As deadly serious as the real estate business can be, especially today, situations can become interesting, even humorous, where so important a matter as money is concerned.  The feature event about [...]
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The Closing Is Like a Stage Play

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Guru Thoughts
The Closing Can Be Much Like a Stage Play By Bill Primavera The Home Guru For a period, I considered turning my writing interests to that of a playwright and thought about one setting that could be used for a series of dramatic or comedic scenarios, much like in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite, where different [...]
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OMG! Real Estate Abbreviations

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Guru Thoughts
OMG! Real Estate Shorthand from AO to ZB   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   We’ve all grown up with abbreviations and acronyms that probably originated at sea, such as SOS (originally for “save our ship”) to POSH (for “portside out, starboard in”), and many others that developed on land for everyday living, as impressive [...]
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Old Homes But Not Old Kitchens

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Guru Thoughts
Old Houses and Antiques are Rebounding, but Not Old Kitchens   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   When my historic house was on the market almost two years ago, there were buyer prospects who fell in love with it, but in each case, the feedback from their agents was similar:  “Clients love it but [...]
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Chicken Little Could Have Used a Little Bedside Manner

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Guru Thoughts
Chicken Little Could Have Used a Little Bedside Manner   By Bill Primavera The Home Guru   Do you remember the story of Chicken Little, the fable in which the central phrase is “The sky is falling?” Normally we apply the phrase to people who manage to incite an unreasonable fear in others, and recently [...]
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The Toilet, Indelicate but Cool

By Bill Primavera / "The Home Guru" On September 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Guru Thoughts
The Toilet, Perhaps Indelicate, But Definitely Cool By Bill Primavera The Home Guru When I suggested to my wife that I was interested in writing about the toilet and its history, her response was, “You’re joking, right? Isn’t that a bit indelicate?” “How could such an essential fixture in our homes be indelicate?” I asked. [...]
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