Locke Property Services LLC

Locke Property Services is a Danvers company built around dumpster rentals and junk removal — clear a garage, gut a shed, haul yard debris — with additional demolition, excavation, snow and ice management, and property management and security checks across the North Shore. The company says owner Chris Locke started the business in 1999 at 17, running it alongside a 17-year career as a police officer before leaving law enforcement to run it full time; his wife Andrea, also a retired officer, co-owns and administers it. The nearly three dozen Google reviews since 2022 tell a consistent story: dumpsters and pickup crews show up on time, often at an exact promised hour, and the price tends to beat competitors. A 2023 review said a delivered dumpster's fee came in far below other quotes, and another from the same year described a 2-ton dumpster dropped off and picked up on schedule with clear texted updates. Beyond dumpsters, reviewers describe Chris and his crew handling junk removal, a 2024 shed demolition left spotless, a 2024 window replacement, and a 2026 same-day referral to a plumber for a bathroom leak. A 2024 building permit on file shows the company also took on a $125,000 commercial fire-damage repair job in Revere. One 2024 review stands out from the rest: a customer who "questioned him" described Chris getting defensive and called the interaction "not very business" — a rare complaint against an otherwise near-uniform run of five-star reviews. BuildZoom lists an active Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor license (#212682) for the business, though its own page shows the license's issue date coming after the date it says it verified the license — worth a quick check before signing anything. The company's own site separately describes itself as a "fully licensed Massachusetts General Contractor," which hasn't been independently verified. Worth calling for dumpster rentals, cleanouts, and small property-service jobs across the North Shore — confirm the current license status directly and, if the scope of a job grows beyond a cleanout, ask which license covers that specific work.