TJ's Fence

TJ's Fence is a three-person shop on Cartier Street in Haverhill, and nearly everything currently knowable about it comes from one place: its Better Business Bureau page. That page puts the business's start at March 2009 and names Timothy Marks as the sole proprietor and owner — 17 years of fence work run by the person who answers the phone. The BBB side of the story reads well. An A+ grade, accreditation held since September 2010, and no complaint count or government action listed on the profile. Sixteen unbroken years of accreditation is a real thing for a one-owner outfit to have kept up. The counterweight is small but pointed: the one customer review surfaced on that same page is an unhappy one. A single undated comment is not a pattern, so treat it as a question rather than a verdict — ask how the crew handles a repair that slips past its promised date, and get the callback commitment in writing before any deposit. Past that page there is little else to go on right now, and nothing to check with the state either: Massachusetts exempts fencing-only contractors from home improvement contractor registration, so there is no registry entry either way. That is why no rating sits at the top of this profile — it reflects how little has been gathered, not a judgment about the work. A sensible call if you want a small, long-established local crew, provided you ask for two or three recent addresses you can drive past yourself.