The Tri-Cities, Tennessee
Elizabethton is home base, and Carter, Washington, Sullivan, and Unicoi counties are the territory I know best because it's where I've worked for 25 years — first in carpentry, then twenty years running J.CO Renovations, now as Highlander. I'm in Elizabethton, Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol, Jonesborough, and Erwin most weeks, along with the smaller towns around them — Gray, Bluff City, Blountville, Unicoi, Hampton, Roan Mountain, Watauga.
A lot of the housing stock through here is older — ranches and farmhouses from the '60s through the '80s, plenty built even earlier, with additions and updates layered on over the decades. That's the bulk of what I get called for: a door that's stuck sticking every summer, trim that's pulling away from a settled foundation, a bathroom that was renovated twice already by two different guys with two different ideas. It's steady, everyday repair-and-upgrade work, and it's the kind of work I know the fastest because I've been doing it in these same neighborhoods since before I had my own truck.
The valley climate has its own way of wearing a house down. We get better than 45 inches of rain a year here, humid summers that keep everything damp longer than it should be, and winters that swing through freeze and thaw over and over instead of settling into one hard cold snap. That cycle is hard on wood, hard on caulk lines, hard on anything with a seam in it — which is exactly why wood rot and carpentry repair stays one of the most common calls I get down here.