Started Small.
Still Personal.
Marco Rivera grew up in Tampa and spent his first 10 years in the trade as a licensed journeyman for commercial contractors — wiring new apartment buildings and office parks across Hillsborough County. He was good at it. But the work that stuck with him was always the residential calls, the homeowners who'd been waiting three weeks for a callback, or who'd been told they needed a $4,000 panel when the real problem was a $12 breaker.
He started Rivera Electric in 2007 with one truck, a commitment to pull permits on every job, and a rule that he'd answer calls himself until the company could afford someone who answered them as well as he did. Seventeen years later, he's still on the tools most days. The rule about permits hasn't changed.
Rivera Electric now runs four licensed technicians and one apprentice. Every team member is either a licensed journeyman or a master electrician. The company has zero open complaints with the Florida DBPR and a 4.9-star Google rating from over 170 Tampa Bay homeowners.
Marco lives in Carrollwood with his family. His kids go to school in Hillsborough County. He passes his own customers' houses on the way to work. That's not a selling point we use to close a deal — it's just the actual situation, and it affects how we do business every day.