Bear General Services

Bear General Services is a family-run outfit on Dartmouth Street in Lynn, working across flooring, painting, cleaning, and general remodeling for homes and businesses. The company says it's been at this since 2018 under Gil Berbel on the contracting side, Geovana Helena in management, and Andre Berbel handling operations — though its own website is inconsistent, elsewhere claiming just 7 years in business. Flooring is the clearest through-line. A company LinkedIn post from this spring shows the crew wrapping up an office flooring job and describes 'flooring experts' ready for harder projects, and an Angi listing at the same Dartmouth Street address backs that up alongside handyman work, painting and staining, and interior cleaning. A separate LinkedIn post markets full bathroom-remodel work — demolition through tile, painting, plumbing, electrical, and finish work — under the same general-contractor label Nextdoor also uses for them. One office-manager's LinkedIn post puts the company at 15 full-time employees and a client base of more than 50 commercial and residential property managers, pointing to real scale on the commercial side. What's thin is independent proof from actual customers. There's no star rating or dated review to point to anywhere. The one customer account on record, an undated post on localitybiz.com, calls the crew professional, punctual, and knowledgeable, but it stands alone. Angi's own profile flags the business as new to that platform with no reviews yet on Angi or HomeAdvisor. Worth a call for a flooring job or a multi-trade renovation, especially given the apparent commercial-property track record — but with no verified review history yet, ask for recent references directly before booking.