IPSWICH HANDYMAN SERVICES

Nine people have rated this one-man Ipswich handyman on Google, and the five who wrote anything landed in two camps. Two vouched for him plainly. One 2024 reviewer called him the best handyman in Ipswich; another wrote that there was "no better guy to do the job than him" and that he knows what he's doing. The other three also wrote in 2024, and they are why the average sits at 3.7. One said he charged double the expected amount for a job that was not complete. Another left a message and never got a call back. A third said the state's website showed his license had expired in 2021. That last point deserves its own answer: the Massachusetts registry check run for this profile shows home improvement contractor registration 182025 active, listed under the name John H. Allen — the same number printed on the company's own site. Whatever that reviewer saw in early 2024, the registration reads current now. The business talks about itself in the first person: someone who works through the list of small jobs a house accumulates — carpentry, painting, fences, decks, walkways, windows, doors, tile, floors, and minor plumbing and electrical work. Nothing has been written about the work since 2024, so the picture is both thin and a little old. If you call, pin the scope and the price down in writing before anything starts — the one detailed complaint on file is about exactly that — and confirm the registration number yourself with the state.