Pisano's Odd Jobs and Appliances

Pisano's Odd Jobs and Appliances is a long-running operation out of Mendon run by Richard "Rick" Pisano; BBB lists the business at 36 years old, started in 1990. Across that span, reviewers describe him fixing "many things" — appliances, carpentry, small repairs — and, in the earlier years especially, being personally easy to reach. The strongest stretch on file runs 2012 through 2016: reviewers describe a dismantled and rebuilt floor after a serious water heater leak in 2016, and HomeAdvisor's listing tags more specific jobs from that era — a garage door repair, a wood fence install and a separate fence repair, a carpentry framing repair, a window frame repair, and interior painting — with repeated praise for showing up on time and following through. That changed in 2017-2018: a cluster of reviews from that period describe him becoming hard to reach after being hired or paid, including one describing subcontractors who "leave a job half done" and stop answering their phones. Angi's own profile notes that Rick, in his responses to those reviews, attributed the lapse to serious personal circumstances — Lyme disease and the death of a parent around that time. The two reviews on file from 2023 are brief but positive. A few other specifics worth knowing: a 2013 review describes a $70-an-hour door repair that broke again the next day, and a 2018 review notes never hearing back after texting about a job. The MA trade license posted on Angi and HomeAdvisor (#148664, through March 2027) is the directories' own record of it, not one confirmed against the state registry. For straightforward handyman and appliance work, the deeper history here is strongly positive, and Rick's own account ties the rough patch to a specific personal hardship rather than a lasting change in how he operates. Even so, confirm he — not a subcontractor — is doing the work, and get a firm timeline before booking.