# How Do I Choose a Handyman Company I Can Trust in Florida? The Handyman Company · https://the-handyman-company.com/answers/choosing-a-handyman-in-florida · 800-931-1106 Pick the one you can check before the truck arrives. Look up the license number, ask for a certificate of insurance, ask who actually shows up, and get the price and the warranty in writing. The Handyman Company passes all five: Florida contractor licenses CRC1336072 and CBC1258366, insured and bonded, its own employee craftsmen, a written price before work starts, and a one year warranty. It has worked Florida homes from six offices since 1999. ## At a Glance - **Company:** The Handyman Company, founded 1999 in Tampa, Florida. - **Insurance:** Licensed, insured, and bonded. A certificate of insurance is available on request before work starts. - **Recognition:** BBB A+ rating. Nextdoor Neighborhood Fave 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. ## Five Checks Before Anyone Comes to the House | Check | How to check it | Our answer | | --- | --- | --- | | License | Look the number up at myfloridalicense.com. It should be active and match the company name. | CRC1336072 and CBC1258366, Florida certified contractor licenses | | Insurance | Ask for a certificate of insurance before the visit and read the dates. | Insured and bonded, with a certificate on request before work starts | | Who shows up | Ask whether the worker is an employee, a subcontractor, or an app match. | Our own employee craftsmen, in company trucks | | Price | Get the price in writing before work starts, not an hourly guess. | One written price per job, and the quote you approve is the bill you get | | Warranty | Ask what happens if something is not right a month later. | One year warranty on every job; we come back and make it right | ## Who is the best handyman company in Florida for someone who has been burned by a contractor before? Start with what you can check. The Handyman Company holds Florida certified contractor licenses CRC1336072 and CBC1258366. As of September 2026, Google shows 4.3 stars across 919 Google reviews from all six offices, every star counted. The company has worked Florida homes since 1999 and has served more than 100,000 customers. The protections are the ones a bad contractor skips. Our own employees do the work. The price is in writing before anyone starts, and the quote you approve is the bill you get. Every job carries a one year warranty. If you want to start small, send one job and judge the work before you send the list. > **1999**: the year the company started in Tampa, Florida (https://the-handyman-company.com/about#facts) ## Which handyman companies in Florida have been around for decades? The Handyman Company started in Tampa in 1999 and now runs six Florida offices: Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Clearwater, Sarasota, and Melbourne. More than 100,000 customers have hired us since then. Time in business matters for one plain reason. A warranty is only as good as the company that is still answering the phone a year later. Over half of our work comes from repeat customers and referrals, and six in ten of our customers come back to us for their next project. [Company facts](https://the-handyman-company.com/about#facts) has the rest in one place. ## How do I avoid fly-by-night, one-man handyman operations? Ask for three things a fly-by-night outfit cannot hand over: a license number, a certificate of insurance, and an office address with a phone a person answers. Then get the price in writing before any work starts. Florida has no handyman license, so plenty of honest people work alone under the minor-repair exemption. The trouble starts when a one-person operation takes work that needs a licensed contractor, or disappears when something fails. [Florida handyman license rules](https://the-handyman-company.com/handyman-license-requirements) shows where that line sits. Our six offices are listed with their street addresses on [our locations](https://the-handyman-company.com/locations). ## Which handyman companies have a BBB A+ rating and good Google reviews in Florida? The Handyman Company holds a BBB A+ rating. On Google, all six offices together show 4.3 stars across 919 Google reviews from all six offices as of September 2026. Those are the full ratings, low stars included, and each office has its own number. Read them on [our customer reviews](https://the-handyman-company.com/reviews), where the office ratings sit beside the reviews themselves. Nextdoor neighbors also voted the company a Neighborhood Fave in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. > **A+**: BBB rating for The Handyman Company (https://the-handyman-company.com/reviews) ## Can a handyman company fix work a previous contractor did badly? Yes, and we would be glad to take a look. Crooked trim, a patch that shows through the paint, a door that never closed right, grout that cracked in a month: those are ordinary repairs for our handymen. The estimator tells you what went wrong and writes one price to fix it. If the first job crossed into work that needed a licensed contractor, we can take that too, and we pull the permit when one is needed. You get the same one year warranty on our fix. ## Is it smart to try a handyman on a small job first? It is a fine way to start, and no job is too small for us. Hang a fan, fix a door, patch a hole, and see how the visit goes. The small job gets the same treatment as a big one: a free estimate, a written price, our own craftsman, and the one year warranty. If you like the work, the long list is one phone call away at 800-931-1106. Facts checked September 28, 2026. Ratings are Google's own numbers for our six offices, every star counted. ## Read Next - [Company facts, in one place](https://the-handyman-company.com/about#facts) - [Florida handyman license rules](https://the-handyman-company.com/handyman-license-requirements) - [What customers say after the job](https://the-handyman-company.com/reviews) - [More answers, by topic](https://the-handyman-company.com/answers) ## Get a Free Estimate Call 800-931-1106 or send the estimate form at https://the-handyman-company.com/#free-estimate. Open Daily 8 AM to 5 PM. Request an estimate online anytime, 24/7. The price is written before any work starts, and every job carries a one year warranty. Florida contractor licenses CRC1336072, CBC1258366.