Flannery's Handymen

Search Salem-area Reddit threads for a mover or a cleanout crew and Flannery's Handymen turns up again and again, usually with the same claim attached: they beat other companies' quotes. The company is based at 250 Canal St. in Salem and run by Todd Flannery, working junk removal, estate cleanouts, and local moves across the North and South Shore. Reviews back that reputation with real volume — 44 posted since 2021, mostly five stars, with specific jobs described throughout. In a 2023 review, a Salem customer describes a condo cleanout finished by two crew members in under two hours; in a 2024 review, a homeowner recounts calling about a deteriorating garage addition and having Rory quote the job the same day, with a crew demolishing it the next; in a 2022 review, the crew reassembled beds and furniture after moving a family from Marblehead to New Hampshire the day after a snowstorm, with a week's-notice date change added on top. Crew members get named again and again across years of reviews — Justin, Jay, Eddie, C.J., Archie and Kevin among them — and several reviewers say they've hired Flannery's more than once for exactly that reason. Recent activity keeps the pattern going: four Google reviews in the last six months, all positive, plus fresh Reddit mentions saying the company undercut competing quotes by a wide margin. The friction that does show up centers on the office more than the truck. A 2025 review and a 2024 review both name 'Rory' as the contact who went quiet — once after a complaint, once after an initial request — with no follow-up either time. A 2023 review describes furniture chipped in a move that went unanswered until the customer won a small-claims judgment. And a 2025 review, written by a self-described witness rather than the customer, describes hourly billing running long and a load left behind. None of these describe a problem with the crews' actual work — the complaints cluster around office responsiveness and one damage dispute — but they're worth raising directly: get a fixed quote in writing, and ask how a damage claim gets handled if something goes wrong. For a straightforward local move or a same-day cleanout, the crews Flannery's sends have a long, consistently positive track record; the open question is what happens if a problem needs to go up the chain afterward.