I Need a Handyman???????

I've never tried Taskrabbit, but maybe there are sites like that where you can just pick a person?

Amazon used to have handymen, but I'm pretty sure they stopped doing that. I used them a few times back in the day.
 

Aunt Bea said:
Good luck, fuzzy!

It would probably be easier to find Sasquatch,
Jimmy Hoffa, or D.B. Cooper.

If you have a neighborhood senior center, old fashioned hardware store or lumberyard, rural cemetery, realtors office, etc… you could start making inquiries but I’m afraid that the good
ones will be too busy and the bad ones will drive you round the bend.

Maybe it’s time to consider selling out and getting an apartment where the maintenance is included in the rent. 🤔
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About Jimmy Hoffa. During the 60's a guy from Toronto named Marvin Elkind was Hoffa's personal driver, for 4 years. Marvin was a Jewish mobster, an ex boxer, and a loan shark's muscle man. He got the job of driving Jimmy Hoffa because Marvin could be trusted to keep his mouth shut. Hoffa's Cadillac was his office, and only Marvin drove Mister Hoffa. At that time Hoffa lived in NYC Monday to Friday, then flew home to Michigan on the weekends. Every week day the Cadillac was washed and checked for bugs that might have been planted by the FBI.

In later years Marvin became a paid Police informant for the Ontario Provincial Police, and the RCMP, the FBI, and the Secret Service for a period of 15 years. Marvin was told by 2 different Teamster's Union executives that Hoffa was buried in the wet concrete of a bridge support in down town Detroit that crosses a major street ( east Jefferson Avenue ), which connects a big hotel ( The Omni Hotel ) and a conference center ( The Renaissance Center ) .

This information I just wrote comes from Marvin's biography "A double life in the mob" by Canadian author Adrian Humphries on page 83 of the book. Marvin "the Weasel " survived a life time of being a mobster, AND a paid Police informant. He died in his bed, age 89, in January of this year, 2024. I met Marvin a few times over the years, at various functions, where he was a fund raiser for Jewish charities. For a guy with 5th grade education he travelled in some high scale circles.

In just one of his many escapades, he tipped off the FBI about a plan to stage a military takeover of the African country of Ghana, by a rival political group. The FBI used Marvin to get a meeting with the group, posing as sellers of military firearms. Another notch in Marvin's long list of infiltrations into the criminal world, around the world. JIM.
 

Oldeagle66 said:
Come to think of it, I don't even know any good handyman types anymore. Not that long ago they were everywhere. I don't even see kids mowing lawns anymore. And, yes online services can be pricey for small stuff. Maybe try a neighbors adult family member.
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I have similar problems, but I have numbers for some kinds of services. One guy in another town does electrical and A/C, another also does minor electrical and and sometimes other things. We've used a plumbing company in a town on edge of the city. I used to use the auto repair company in that same town, but now I have to find another one. The company had changed and quoted me a price, but when it was ready they had added another repair on without asking me at a larger price. Still driving, obviously. But yeah, those local guys that used to charge reasonable prices, that is pretty much gone. My neighborhood has a group facebook site where you can ask for referrals. It is for neighborhood residents only.
 
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