Our Story
Uber didn't just make getting a ride easier, it changed what people expected from every service industry. Suddenly you could see who was coming, know the price before you committed, track arrival in real time, and rate the experience after. No surprises. No guessing. Just a service that worked the way you'd design it if you were starting from scratch. Every industry had to reckon with that shift. Home services never did. You still call four different companies just to get pricing, sit on hold, leave voicemails, and after all that you get a range — not a number, a range and a scheduling window that eats your entire morning. My name is Nick, and I started Astoria because homeowners in Phoenix deserved the same thing Uber proved was possible — a service that's:
Simple to book. Clear on prices. Shows up on time.
Phoenix homeowners spend hours coordinating contractors who don't talk to each other, price inconsistently, and describe their services in language vague enough to mean anything. You book a cleaner. The handyman no-shows. The landscaper quotes one number and bills another. Nobody owns the outcome.
Astoria puts handyman work, cleaning, landscaping, and painting under one roof. One call, one contact, one team accountable for all of it. No contractor blaming the next one. No chasing down four different schedulers to get a single weekend handled.
We price every job upfront, in writing, before anyone sets foot in your home. If something changes mid-job, we call you before we touch it. You approve it or we stop. That's not a policy we came up with — it's the bare minimum homeowners deserve and almost never get.
Transforming Home Services
A Modern Approach
Booking a contractor in 2026 should not feel like it did in 2005. No voicemails. No three-day waits for a callback. No quote that arrives as a paragraph of qualifications.
You contact us, tell us what you need, and we confirm a time. Our team shows up at that time. We do the work, charge what we said we'd charge, and leave your home cleaner than we found it. The invoice matches the quote.
We bring the same standard to a gutter clean as a full interior paint job. Not because it makes for good marketing, but because cutting corners on smaller jobs is how companies lose customers and we're here to keep them. Nick built Astoria to be the last home services company you need to find.
Astoria v.s Other Home Services Companies
Small Team
Big home services companies route you through call centers. You explain your problem to someone who passes it to someone else, who schedules a tech you've never met. At Astoria, you talk to Nick. He knows your house, remembers what was done last time, and is reachable by call or text. No ticket numbers. No "let me pull up your account."
Not Private Equity Owned
A lot of home services brands that look local are owned by large investment firms squeezing margins and hitting quarterly targets. That pressure flows downhill to you — faster jobs, cheaper materials, upsells you didn't ask for. Astoria is independently owned and has no outside investors to answer to. The only scorecard that matters is whether you'd call us again.
Small Team, High Standards
We don't subcontract your job to whoever is available that day. You get a small, consistent crew that Nick personally trained and vouches for. Smaller means we can't hide behind volume. Every job has our name on it, so every job gets done right.
Most companies won’t ever give you a price. If you’re lucky they will give you a range, start the work, and hand you an invoice that lands somewhere above what you expected. We send you the number before anyone shows up. It doesn't change unless the scope changes, and if it does, you approve it first. No invoice shock.
Pricing You See Before We Start
One Company for Everything
The industry is built around specialization because specialization is easier to scale. It is not easier for you. Astoria handles handyman work, cleaning, landscaping, and painting so you make one call instead of five. One schedule to manage, one team who knows your property, one company accountable when something needs fixing.