By Bill Primavera Am I terminally weird or is everybody like me in wanting to surround ourselves in our homes with highly personal things that remind, motivate and inspire us to achieve certain goals? As a realtor, I know well
Read MoreFrom time to time, The Home Guru picks out snippets from columns that readers have enjoyed. Here is a sampling from past Home Guru articles. By Bill Primavera Bathroom Reading I’ve never understood the practice of placing reading material next
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera You’d never know it to meet me today, but I was born with some kind of neurological condition that resulted in my reaching the age of five without speaking a word. That was in the days before
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera How many times, I wonder, have my wife Margaret and I targeted the next Monday to start a new diet? It would be impossible to calculate, but this time around, as I ponder all the reasons that
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera In a past column I mentioned, perhaps impetuously, that I had once lived in a “haunted” house and I would someday write about it. Just recently I received a note in the mail from a “devoted fan”
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Besides serving as a way to find where you live, can the name of your street influence the perception of your home and its value, positively or negatively? The thought occurred to me a while back when
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera This week I reprise some musings based on both practical and absurd observations made from past columns. The common complaint of noise from neighbors. No man is an island, but there were a couple of occasions, especially
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera It never fails. I’ll be in a rush to meet a client, dashing to my garage across my parking area, covered with crushed bluestone, and I’ll spy a tiny fleck of green peeking through the gravel. Another
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Ah, the ways of nature and how we roll with them on our properties can be challenging indeed. Recently, I read an article online warning of nine plants we should never have on our properties because of
Read MoreBy Bill Primavera Something really dramatic happened to me a few summers ago that could have resulted in a front-page headline announcing, “Home Guru Crushed in Freak Accident in Pool.” The article might end with a warning to readers that
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