HandyPro, a home repair and property maintenance company in South Florida, reported $383,575 in gross revenue in 2025. From January 1 through September 18, 2026, company bank statements show approximately $1.3 million in payments received. This figure has been reviewed and confirmed by the company's accountant and remains subject to final year-end accounting and tax reporting. The company built its name on the kind of work many contractors turn away: doors, drywall, flooring, furniture assembly and the steady stream of small repairs that keep a property in shape.

For Ahmed Elnozhy, founder and CEO of HandyPro, this is the second time he has helped build a service business across several locations. The first time, he was selling haircuts.

A medical degree and seven barbershops

"My professional journey did not begin with a traditional career in construction," Elnozhy says. He earned a medical degree from Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University in Ukraine and later completed supervised clinical training in internal medicine at Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Clinical Hospital from August 2020 through October 2022. Medicine, as he describes it, left him with a sense of responsibility and a habit of systematic thinking that he later carried into business.

His business education came from ALS Barbershop. Elnozhy held a 40% stake in the chain and served as its operations manager as it grew to seven locations in Ivano-Frankivsk, Kolomyia and Kyiv, with approximately 32 employees at its peak. He oversaw day-to-day operations and coordinated the renovation, furnishing and maintenance of each new location as the chain grew.

"This experience gave me a practical understanding of the importance of well-maintained premises, properly organized work and timely maintenance," he says. Years later, he would build HandyPro around the same idea.

Starting over on a ladder

After moving to the United States, Elnozhy started at the bottom of a technical trade. He worked as an independent (1099) cable technician for Koskom Cable Inc. on Comcast/Xfinity projects from approximately February through May 2024, where he was trained in installation, ladder safety and drilling, and in the less visible parts of the job: protecting a customer's home, documenting finished work and getting approval before touching a building's structure. Those months gave him a technician's view of the work, which later shaped how he trains the people who work with him.

He also saw what homeowners in South Florida were dealing with. "Many companies would not accept small jobs, failed to return calls or disappeared after receiving payment," he says. Others fixed only the visible part of a problem. Owners ended up hiring a new contractor for every repair and explaining the history of the house each time.

HandyPro was his answer. "I wanted to create a company that customers could rely on as a single, trusted point of contact for property maintenance," he says. In the beginning, he answered almost every inquiry himself, visited properties, wrote estimates, coordinated technicians and supervised each job.

HandyPro works within the scope of general maintenance, repairs and project coordination. Work that requires a general contractor, plumbing, electrical or other professional license goes through an appropriately licensed entity or trade partner. Arc Build Group is a separate company qualified by Joseph Celello, who holds Florida General Contractor license CGC1540835 and Florida Plumbing Contractor license CFC1434485. Ahmed Elnozhy does not personally hold either license.

According to HandyPro's updated internal management records, the company has completed approximately 1,196 jobs. It now has a core team of about eight technical and management professionals, and it serves Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, with several large projects completed outside Florida. Where local licensing is required, regulated installation or trade work is performed by properly licensed local contractors or subcontractors.

As of September 2026, HandyPro held a 4.9-star Google rating based on 119 reviews, along with 181 reviews on Thumbtack and 35 on Angi, where it has also received recognition. Its clients range from private homeowners and restaurants to property management companies, logistics businesses and homeowners' associations.

As the company grew, Elnozhy stepped back from answering every call. "Today, the company has both management and technical teams, so my role has become more strategic," he says. He sets the service standards, takes part in recruiting and training, oversees complex projects and key commercial relationships, and develops new directions for the business.

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Growing into new markets

The next market is Tampa and Clearwater, where HandyPro has already started receiving inquiries and holding consultations. Once operations there are stable, the company plans to look at Jacksonville and Fort Myers.

The expansion is planned in stages. Each new region will start with a compact team: a manager or senior technician, a sales manager and three technicians. Experienced members of the South Florida team may help support the initial rollout and put HandyPro's standards in place. After that, the company plans to expand its field and sales teams gradually, based on demand, service quality, workload and the ability to maintain consistent customer communication. It is the barbershop lesson applied to a new trade: grow location by location, and only as fast as the standards can travel.

"My goal is to gradually create permanent jobs offering transparent compensation, training and opportunities for professional development," Elnozhy says. HandyPro is working toward transitioning appropriate roles into W-2 employment as the company expands. Any transition will depend on the responsibilities of each role, applicable law and the company's operational needs. For local residents, each new region would also mean faster access to repair services. HandyPro also offers a 15% labor discount to veterans, first responders, senior citizens and people with disabilities, subject to the company's applicable terms.

For Elnozhy, the most reliable measure of the business is who calls back. "Some customers have hired us dozens of times, which I consider one of the strongest indicators of trust," he says.

By Sarah Jenkins

Liam Atkinson specializes in content writing and editorial quality assurance for SEO, PR and marketing agencies. He writes about business, content and the people behind growing companies.