Master Handyman Services

Five ratings and a 4.2 average — that is the entire public measure of Master Handyman Services. The business is listed at 4 Berkeley St in Lawrence and offers general handyman work. Its written history is dated: the accounts customers posted to its Google page go back several years, so the picture of how it works today is a number rather than a story. That number deserves care. A 4.2 spread across five ratings is thin enough that a single unhappy customer swings it hard, and a score that small should not be read as a track record the way a few hundred ratings would be. If the job is small and local, it may still be worth a call — just do the checking yourself. Ask for two or three references from work done this year, ask which kinds of jobs it takes on now, and ask for its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration number so you can look it up on the state register before any money changes hands.