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Home Guru

What Stays and What Goes in a House at Sale Time

June 23, 2020 Annette

By Bill Primavera Buyers and sellers who seem perfectly nice and normal throughout the sales transaction can suddenly lose their cool when the seller asks at the last minute that a modest chandelier over a kitchen table be excluded among

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Contemplating Stairs When I Don’t Have Any

June 15, 2020 Annette

By Bill Primavera As a realtor who frequently serves senior members of our community, I am always aware of the presence of exterior steps or stairs inside that must be negotiated on any given property. Note how homes and condos

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COLUMNSHome Guru

Confessions of a Compulsive Weeder

June 8, 2020 Annette

By Bill Primavera In spring, my thoughts turn to the joy of planting, along with the chore of the necessary weeding which accompanies it. But it’s been five years since I’ve planted or pulled a weed because I’ve been living

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COLUMNSHome Guru

Stuck in Quarantine? Find a Good Place to Meditate at Home

June 2, 2020 Annette

By Bill Primavera In her memoir, “Eat, Pray, Love,” author Elizabeth Gilbert (and actress Julia Roberts in the movie) travels the world to find spiritual fulfillment, but most of us probably conduct our quiet time for meditation or prayer at

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COLUMNSHome Guru

Singing the Pandemic Blues in Real Estate

May 25, 2020 Annette

By Bill Primavera  Here I sit at home over the Memorial Day weekend, all fired up to get out of the house and do something – anything – that will divert my mind from all the gloom and doom of

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COLUMNSHome Guru

Is Dusting a State of Mind or Does it Lead to a Healthier Life?

May 18, 2020 Annette

By Bill Primavera If we are made from dust and shall return to dust, as the Bible tells us, does that give us a pass to live with the stuff in between? While dust is inevitable, it horrifies some of

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An Extended Quarantine and the Home Design it Inspires

May 12, 2020 Annette

By Bill Primavera As a realtor, I marvel at the creative ways that homeowners and sellers are maintaining distancing requirements to avoid COVID-19 while marketing homes for sale. Real estate agents have been told that they must conduct business from

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COLUMNSHome Guru

Top Pandemic Activity: Contemplating My Coffee Table

May 4, 2020 Annette

By Bill Primavera Realtors like me don’t care much for being stuck at home. We like to be out and about, and we should be exactly that if we’re doing our job right. So being shut in at home during

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In a Pandemic, There is Much Time to Be Neat at Home

April 28, 2020 Annette

By Bill Primavera When that new manager of my real estate office came on board, she introduced herself to the agents as a “neatnik” and rated applause for the revelation. Why is that, I wondered? Within a short period of

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The Mudroom: Unglamorous Name, Spectacular Function

April 21, 2020 Annette

By Bill Primavera Living now in the Trump Park condo in Yorktown, I rarely think about certain household chores or needs that I enjoyed (or hated) in my former single-family home. One of the features I had to give up

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