Lasky Homesmith Services

Lasky Homesmith Services is a father-son handyman and carpentry outfit run by Jeff Lasky, who left a career in technical sales and software engineering in 2001 to return to the carpentry trade he learned from his father; his son Alex joined full-time in 2017. They're based in Brookline and describe covering a wide stretch of the inner suburbs, from Cambridge and Arlington to Medford and Milton. The 17 Google reviews on file, running from 2024 through mid-2026, are uniformly five stars. Recent ones keep landing on the same theme: a June 2026 review describes them reassembling a broken antique oak pedestal table and building a new railing down to the basement, and an April 2026 review credits Jeff and Alex with squaring French doors into a Victorian with no level surface or plumb wall. Older reviews tell a similar story about tricky, old-house carpentry — in a 2024 review, one customer credited Alex with tracking down obsolete window parts by matching a manufacturer's sticker rather than replacing three windows outright, and in a 2025 review another described a stuck 1915 Craftsman window they fixed while explaining the historic maintenance involved. Several customers say they've called on Jeff and Alex repeatedly — one mentions five or six jobs over two years, from floor repairs to restoring double-hung windows, and another says they've used them multiple times over many years. Communication and pricing come up unprompted too: reviewers describe them as transparent about trade-offs and, in one case, call out "very reasonable rates." One thing worth confirming before hiring: the company's Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, held under Lasky Homesmith Services, currently shows as expired in the state registry rather than active. For an older home with a backlog of stalled small jobs — a stuck window, an oddly hung door, built-in carpentry — the reviews point to exactly the kind of work Jeff and Alex take on; just check that the HIC registration is current before signing anything.