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Home services · Cottonwood

Handyman in Cottonwood

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Arizona lets you hire an unlicensed person when the whole job, labor and materials together, comes to under $1,000, the work is minor, and no building permit is needed. All three conditions, not any one of them. That covers most of what people actually want a handyman for: a door that will not latch, a fan to hang, a leaking tap, tiling behind a sink, a fence panel.

Go past any one of those three limits and the work legally needs a licensed contractor, whatever it says on the invoice. The commonest way people cross it without noticing is materials: a job that is four hours of labor but two thousand dollars of tile is over the line.

The four

J.D.S. Improvements, LLC, 290 South 6th Place, does home repair and building work. Active license, ROC 328514.

Verde Valley Handyman, 780 SR-89A, specializes in small jobs. Active license, ROC 333112.

Rio Verde Handyman & Home Services is on Happy Jack Way, doing handyman and home repair work.

ND Property Solutions, on East Ramada Road, does property upkeep and small repairs, which usually means an ongoing arrangement rather than a one-off.

Both license numbers were checked against the Registrar of Contractors and were active on the date above. The two without one are not necessarily unlicensed, and for genuinely small work may not need to be: we match on business name, trading name or phone number, and plenty of this trade is exempt.

What to ask instead of the license

For small work the more useful questions are whether they carry liability insurance, whether the quote is fixed or hourly, and whether there is a minimum call-out. A half-hour job at a two-hour minimum is a fair arrangement, but you want to know before, not after.

If the job turns out to be bigger than you thought, that is the moment to stop and get a licensed contractor rather than let a small job grow past the line. Remodeling contractors covers that tier.

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J.D.S. Improvements, LLC

Handyman

Home repair and building work is what this listing covers at 290 S 6th Pl in Cottonwood, recorded under the name J.D.S. Improvements, LLC. Read this part first: the website attached to the phone number trades as Red Desert Construction, so the two names appear to be the same operation, but we have not confirmed that with the owner. The work listed there is property maintenance, painting, flooring, roofing, deck building, kitchen and bathroom remodels, and new home construction. It is reachable all day, every day. Call (928) 202-9502. It serves Cottonwood, Jerome, Camp Verde, and Sedona.

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ND Property Solutions

Handyman

Property upkeep and small repairs are the work at ND Property Solutions, 5916 E Ramada Rd in Cottonwood. The company's own site describes jobs ranging from a leaky faucet or furniture assembly to painting a room and larger remodeling. Painting and drywall get their own section: interior and exterior painting, trim and molding, drywall installation and repair, taping and mudding, and texture matching. Landlords, busy households, and small businesses are named as typical customers. Hours are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to noon on Saturday, with Sunday closed. Free estimates are noted. Call (928) 517-7505.

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Rio Verde Handyman & Home Services

Handyman

Rio Verde Handyman & Home Services is a handyman and home repair business on Happy Jack Way in Cottonwood, Arizona. The business does general home repair and lists insurance coverage of one million dollars. Estimates are free. Hours are long on Monday through Wednesday, shorter on Thursday and Friday, open Saturday morning, and closed Sunday. The listed service area covers Cottonwood, Verde Village, Clarkdale, Jerome, Cornville, Camp Verde, Village of Oak Creek and Sedona. Phone and email are both listed, and the business site has pages for services, service areas, a gallery and customer reviews.

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Verde Valley Handyman

Handyman

Small home jobs are the specialty at Verde Valley Handyman, 780 AZ-89A in Cottonwood. Work listed on its own site covers home repairs, finish carpentry, tile and laminate flooring, deck building, rotten wood and fascia repair, drywall patching, interior and exterior painting, light plumbing, door and window replacement, siding and stucco repair, bathroom remodels, and furniture assembly. The site says the business has run for 10 years and finished over 5,000 local jobs. It is licensed. Office hours on file are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday, with Friday, Saturday, and Sunday closed. The listed service area reaches Clarkdale, Jerome, Cornville, Camp Verde, Rimrock, Village of Oak Creek, and Sedona.

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