Home Guru

By Bill Primavera Judy Garland (as Dorothy Gale) said it best in “The Wizard of Oz:” There’s no place like home. Never has that rung truer than during the past few months when all of us have been quarantined in

By Bill Primavera As a realtor, I am very aware that many of our city neighbors are traveling north to seek housing that is more distanced from the teeming crowds that make Manhattan one of the most exciting cities in

By Bill Primavera My homebuying history involves three purchases. The first was a wonderful town home in the historic neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights. The second was a large historic home in northern Westchester and my current residence is in a

By Bill Primavera The intended headline for this piece contained that short, sweet word that always catches our attention, especially when it involves the foibles of some of our politicians. But my wife suggested that I not use that word

By Bill Primavera After enduring the “blues” of a battered economy for the past few years, enduring “black” moods because many of us find ourselves in the “red,” or  perhaps we’re “green” with envy of those doing better than we,

By Bill Primavera How well I remember criticism once from someone that at first I took badly, but was later flattered by it. The comment was, “He thinks he knows everything about everything, but he only knows a little about

By Bill Primavera Nothing like strong winds closing down the functionality of a house to get you thinking about things that normally are pushed to the back of the mind by the busyness of TV, cell phones, Facebook and Twitter.

By Bill Primavera Recently I drove by our former home, a large 18th century farmhouse my wife Margaret and I owned for over 40 years. I was somewhat surprised to find that one of the giant sugar maple trees that

By Bill Primavera Where or how my wife Margaret could have gotten a bad case of poison ivy is a puzzlement. She’s far from the outdoors type, which I discovered early in our marriage when I suggested we take a

By Bill Primavera Our homes are where we eat, sleep, play, sometimes work and store things we’ve finished using but somehow can’t bear to throw away. There are many reasons we may want to hold on to stuff we no