Taracena's Painting Services

The name says painting. Nearly everything customers write about is gutters. Antonio Taracena's crew has been cleaning gutters on two-story houses since at least 2018, and the routine customers describe barely changes: a fast reply, a slot within days, a crew that arrives on time and takes the debris with it. A homeowner writing this July said the team cleared the gutters, removed all the debris and tidied up afterwards; another, in April, said the crew arrived, finished, cleaned up and left with nothing needed from them. Angi and HomeAdvisor each show 4.8 from 40 ratings — the same 40, mirrored across both sites — while Thumbtack shows 4.9 from 531. The painting side is where the history gets uneven. In a June 2023 review, a Waltham homeowner who hired Antonio for interior trim and wallpaper work said gaping holes left after electrical work were never filled, that a return visit did not fix them, and that the trim began to bubble and crack within days, so they hired someone else to put it right. That is the one detailed account of a painting job in the written history, and it is a hard one. Two gutter jobs also went sideways. A customer in 2020 paid $125, said the crew worked for about twenty minutes and did not intend to use water until prompted, and found uncleaned spots and debris after they left. Another that year, at $300, was pleased overall but noted the blowers left roughly 5% of the trash on the property. A third, otherwise satisfied, was still waiting on a copy of the company's insurance certificate. Most of the written accounts are dated — the bulk run 2018 through 2020 — and the newest run, five comments in 2026, is entirely gutter work. For a two-story gutter clean this is a straightforward call, and the older reviews put those jobs somewhere between $90 and $300 depending on the house. If you are hiring them to paint, ask for recent painting references specifically, get the prep and patching scope in writing, and ask for a current certificate of insurance before anyone starts.