Those Pesky Projects

A 4.9-star average across a dozen Google reviews, and not one of them mixed — that's the early read on Those Pesky Projects, a one-person handyman operation Bill Roberts runs out of Beverly, on Massachusetts's North Shore. He started it in April 2022, leaving a two-decade career in corporate IT management to fix things for a living. The reviews that exist line up with each other. Google puts him at 4.9 across 12 ratings, and a smaller handyman directory recorded a 5.0 average over 19 reviews back in 2022. On Nextdoor, neighbors recommend him by name for general handyman work, pointing to his knowledge and skill rather than any single job. That history sits in 2022 and 2023 rather than the past few months, so what's here reads as a consistent early track record, not yet a long or recent one. He's also picked up an Angi-Approved badge, though no one has left a review there yet, so what's publicly known about him still runs mainly through Google, Nextdoor, and that one directory listing. His own site describes general home repair, light carpentry, painting, and fixture and appliance work — a broad handyman mix rather than one narrow specialty. He reads like a solid call for everyday home repair — general fixes, light carpentry, painting, appliance and fixture work — handled by the owner himself rather than a rotating crew. With the review count still in the dozens rather than the hundreds, it's a reasonable idea to ask him directly for a reference or two before handing over anything bigger.