3 Best Painters Near Rutherfordton, NC Ranked by Chooz Score

Burlett Painting earned a Chooz Score of 89.6/100 and currently qualifies for the Chooz Top Pro award. Based in Hendersonville, NC, the company offers residential and commercial painting and says it has been in business for more than 30 years.

Among the painting companies Chooz evaluated in the cities Burlett serves, Burlett ranked second out of 87. Twenty companies, including Burlett, scored 80 or higher. Another 11 scored below 80. The initial screening placed 56 companies in the below-50 category, which excluded them from further score evaluation. Each company is counted once, even if it serves several of the same cities.

When we ran our analysis, Custom Painting of Asheville inc had earned a Chooz Score of 88.1%. The company has operated in Asheville for more than a decade, is accredited with the Better Business Bureau, and is registered as North Carolina business entity No. 1506788. It is a family-owned and operated business, led by owner Dario Cedillo-Valdes, serving Asheville and the surrounding Western North Carolina communities.

Across its review profiles, the company held over 70 Google reviews with a 4.9-star rating, along with 5.0 stars on Angi across more than a dozen reviews and 5.0 stars on Yelp across a handful of reviews. A 4.9-star rating across more than 70 reviews is uncommon, since a profile at that volume usually collects enough lower ratings to sit further below five.

What stands out about Passion Painters is how quickly the reputation came together. The last time we ran our Chooz Score analysis, the company held a 4.9-star rating across nearly 50 Google reviews, with nearly every one of them landing at five stars. That's a hard average to hold, and it earned Passion Painters a Chooz Score of 82%. The reviews come from all over the Asheville and Western North Carolina area, and the company stays visible beyond Google too, with an active presence on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. What you won't find is padding. Read them in order and the same words keep surfacing: professional, courteous, on time, clean.

Tony Sosa, the owner, comes out to walk the property himself before a brush ever touches a wall. His name shows up in review after review, not as a distant boss but as the person running the estimate, picking colors alongside customers, and checking that everyone's happy before the crew packs up. The Chooz Score's owner engagement indicators reflect it: the owner is personally named throughout the reviews and stays hands-on from first call to final coat. On out-of-town jobs, customers describe getting daily photos and progress reports from Tony directly. One homeowner didn't love the blue she'd picked for her bedroom, so Tony bought new paint and had the room redone, no argument. Passion Painters is a locally owned, registered NC business based in Swannanoa, and it shows in how personal the service feels.