Home Guru

By Bill Primavera When I first moved to Westchester, my new home was an old home, a very old home, built originally in 1734, with wings added in 1797 and 1861.  It was interesting that in the original wing of

By Bill Primavera As I sat down to write a piece about doorbells, I realized that it’s been so long since we’ve had visitors to our home in Trump Park – because of the pandemic – that I had forgotten

By Bill Primavera For many, the effects of Hurricane Ida are still being dealt with, reminiscent of the travails of the infamous Superstorm Sandy that hit us in 2012.  Sandy was very costly to me as a homeowner in that

By Bill Primavera Don’t think that I’m weird, but one of my favorite movies is Disney’s “Enchanted.” The animated fairytale princess finds herself banished to real-life Manhattan, and one of her first discoveries of modern life is the magical waterfall

By Bill Primavera As a realtor who really enjoys his work, I have no regrets about any of the deals I’ve brokered for either my buyers or sellers – except for one detail I brokered for the sale of my

By Bill Primavera After enduring the “blues” of the COVID-19 pandemic for almost two years, enduring “black” moods because many of us find ourselves in the “red” with the loss of jobs, or perhaps we’re “green” with envy of those

By Bill Primavera As a realtor, I have learned much of what I know as The Home Guru from my buyers and sellers. One example, learned early in my career in real estate from my early buyer clients Jennifer and

By Bill Primavera Perhaps I’ve always been a bit too sensitive about noise in and around my home environment. I was first made aware of this when I moved into my first apartment in New York in a brand-new building,

By Bill Primavera I will soon be listing a home for sale for a couple who is moving out of state to be close to their children.  They thought that they had found their ideal retirement home in that location,