I've got more work than I can do — I'm building a founder-vetted crew.
For 18 years, Handyman Reality has run on one thing: people know I fix things well, so they keep calling — and lately there's more work than one person can do. I'm taking on one or two good tradespeople to run it, as founding operators, first in Edmonton.
An injury's moving me off the tools sooner than I planned — so I'm finally building the crew I always could have: vetted, guided, held to my standard.
Express interestThe offer — gain more, lose nothing
Real leads
The overflow work that already falls out of the reputation — handed to you.
Keep your own clients
The non-solicit covers only the work we send you. What's yours stays yours, the whole way.
A crew one person stands behind
Not a listing site handing you a stranger's number. Founder-vetted — I vouch for every person on it.
Range, not just more of the same
You bring one trade; the work here spans nine. Drywall patching, sink and toilet repair — the everyday fixes that sit right next to what you already do. That's a short gap, and closing it with you is work I've been doing since 2008. Then commercial and restaurant work through the Padmanadi and Shelfie side. A narrow trade rides that trade's cycle; range is what steadies the income.
Never a race to the bottom
We never compete on price alone. You won’t be pushed to underbid to win a job — what sells here is work done properly, on time and affordably. It has to pay you fairly, or it doesn’t hold.
The back-office weight lifted
WCB setup, the insurance that's a pain to get on your own, the bookkeeping — the parts of going independent every tradesperson dreads. Being built to come with it; get in ahead of it. It's not in place yet, and I won't pretend otherwise.
Who we're after
A trade you're already good at — carpentry, plumbing, drywall, whatever it is — and an interest in widening it. You don't have to be an all-rounder already; that's the part I can teach. Your own tools and a vehicle. Edmonton area. Quality-minded — someone I'd trust with my own name on the job. Measure yourself against that list; you'll know better than I will.
Why now
The straight version: an injury's moving me off the tools sooner than I planned. Instead of winding down, I'm building something that outlasts a bad ankle — and founding operators get in ahead of all of it.
Straight about where this stands
Real today
The 18-year reputation. The demand. The corporation. Our own business insurance.
Being built — not yet in place
Getting set up with WCB, the operator insurance that's a pain to get on your own, the bookkeeping. That's the weight I'm putting in place to lift off you. No operator works under my name until it's real — you get in ahead of it and help shape it.
Tell us about yourself
Just the basics for now — we go deeper over a coffee, not a form.
What happens next
No big application. We start with a coffee and a look at one job together. Then you decide. If you decide it isn't for you, that's a perfectly good answer — better found over a coffee than three months in.