Ricardo

Ricardo runs a one-person handyman operation out of Waltham, background-checked on Thumbtack and in business about four years. The five reviews on his profile are unusually consistent for a small operation, and one customer came back to hire him a second time. The clearest account is a TV installation from February 2025: the customer wrote that Ricardo arrived on time, mounted the set, handled all the wiring, and showed them how to use the new setup before leaving. Other reviewers from that same stretch, late January through late February 2025, described him as patient and attentive, checking the work matched what they'd asked for before calling it done. The catch is timing — every review on file dates from that same five-week window in early 2025, with nothing more recent and nothing negative to weigh against the praise. Thumbtack shows 32 photos of past work, pointing to a broader track record than the five written reviews alone capture, but there's no way to verify what's happened since. For picture hanging, TV mounting, or general handyman jobs, the early reviews are a genuinely good sign — worth asking about recent work directly, since the profile itself doesn't show anything past that first burst of reviews.