Hartnett Bernice
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- Not rated by the BBB
Highlights
- Forty years trading — BBB dates the business to January 1986
- Marblehead based — a local painter in the town it serves
- No BBB rating — bureau cites insufficient information to issue one
- No reviews anywhere — nothing published about how jobs go
- Licence unconfirmed — no HIC registration number appears on any source
The business behind this listing trades as Wallflowers, a three-person painting outfit run by Bernice Hartnett out of a Marblehead PO box. The BBB puts its start date at January 1986 — forty years of painting on the North Shore. That length of history is the whole of what is publicly documented. Its BBB file, opened in 2017, carries no reviews and no rating at all: the bureau states it does not have enough information to issue one, and the business is not accredited. With nothing written about the work, the sensible step is to ask directly for references from recent Marblehead-area jobs and to confirm the company's Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration with the state, since no licence number appears anywhere. Massachusetts does exempt interior-painting-only contractors from that registration, so ask what the crew actually takes on. A long-established local painter may well suit the job — but the decision has to rest on that conversation and those references, not on anything published so far.
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What does house painting cost in Greater Boston?
Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from Hartnett Bernice. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
Finished floor area of the rooms in scope — not wall area.
Estimated range
$6,000 – $9,000
Typical painting project around $7,500