Paras Electric

Paras Electric has worked out of the same address on Lynn Street in Peabody for decades — the Better Business Bureau and local directories put its start at 1968, incorporated in 1974, with Thomas Paras listed as president of the five-person shop. Paras himself is a familiar name in town, having also served as a Peabody Municipal Lighting Commissioner, and the company belongs to the Peabody Chamber of Commerce. What there is to go on online is thin but uniformly positive: five ratings on Google average a perfect 5.0, and the most recent review, from this January, calls the crew fast and friendly with service described as top notch. An earlier review echoes the same note — professional, courteous work — though it's old enough now that it only counts toward the general pattern rather than as a fresh data point. Nothing negative turns up anywhere in that history. The catch is volume: for a business this old, the public review trail is short, and the BBB hasn't issued it a rating at all — not because of any red flag, but because it says it simply doesn't have enough information to grade them. That makes it hard to know how consistent the experience is across a larger set of jobs. This reads like a small, long-running, owner-led electrical shop suited to routine residential work in the Peabody area. Given how little independent review history exists, it's worth asking for a couple of recent references directly before booking anything beyond a simple job.