Samar Real Estate Solutions, LLC

Three permits tell the range: a $10,000 bathroom upgrade in Brookline in 2023, a $21,180 roof replacement in Somerville in 2021, and a $61,500 job in Belmont in 2025. Samar Real Estate Solutions is the two-person West Roxbury company behind them — by its own account a small handyman service that grew into a design-build practice, now repairing, renovating and turning over homes and investment properties for Boston-area homeowners, landlords and real estate professionals. Samar Abi Hassan Abdul Samad owns it, and BBB puts the business at 7 years. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #196810, is active, and the state's Supplier Diversity Office certifies the company as both a Minority Business Enterprise and a Women Business Enterprise — certification 20220132, active through 2028. BBB accredited it in 2025 and grades it A+; its BBB page also lists licence number CS-115916 from the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation and licence number 55073 from the Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Electricians. What customers have written is short and dated: two reviews, both from January 2023, both recommending. One called the work "very neat and efficient"; the other was "really happy with the timeliness of the work." HomeAdvisor carries the same Angi listing, so the 4.8 showing on both is that same pair. With two employees on the books, staffing is the thing to settle first — for anything approaching the size of that Belmont job, ask who is actually on site and for how long. Its Angi listing says Spanish is spoken and estimates are free. For repair-and-refresh work around Boston — interior and cabinet painting, doors and windows, a kitchen or bath renovation — and for an owner who needs MBE or WBE certification on the paperwork, this is a small shop with the registrations behind it; pin down the crew and the schedule before work starts.